Thinking Outside the Book

$20.00

Presenter: Sheila Mulbry & Nicole Shannon, Round Rock ISD
Core Area: Creativity & Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1

Do you want your gifted students to deepen their responses to the text they read? One of the most fulfilling moments in a teacher’s day is when the light comes on, a sign that the students are making a deep connection with the material being taught. Teaching students to think outside the book is one of the ways you can empower your students to experience those “aha” moments.

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Description

Thinking Outside the Book is an ideal course for educators looking for resources to guide students toward creating unique and complex assignments. You’ll learn to lead them to have a deeper response to quality literature, which will ultimately help their love and respect for reading.
In this one-hour course you will learn to incorporate a variety of media to differentiate responses and push your students toward thinking and creating outside the book.

Trainers Sheila Mulbry and Nicole Shannon share their personal best-practices on:

  • Using mysteries in literature
  • Developing puzzle fiction projects
  • Creating personal response papers
  • Identifying themes and vocabulary in literature
  • Writing mini-research reports

And more!

Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.

This course is aligned with 2016 ODE Teacher Competencies a, b, c, e, f, g and NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards 2.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1.

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2816 reviews for Thinking Outside the Book

  1. Teri – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    I love the ideas that were done with each book.

  2. daniel – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –

    Great

  3. patrina – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    The course was very informative and I can’t wait to implement what I have learn in my classroom.

  4. Patricia – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    I learned how to use innovative ways and technology in differentiating instruction.

  5. Laurie – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –

    I believe this is very interesting way to teach children

  6. Elia – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    “Thinking outside the Box” It was interesting and great information.

  7. Kenan – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner) –

    Ok

  8. Scott – HARPER ISD (verified owner) –

    it was good

  9. Melissa – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –

    I think this course provides a few options that you may not have thought of for student choice in how they comprehend a text.

  10. Michelle – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –

    Great course

  11. Rebecca – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –

    Good!

  12. Paula – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –

    Great!

  13. Janeth – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –

    Interesting

  14. Sten – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    These are great ideas for differentiation. I already do some of them, but the training is giving me ideas for how to expand my use of differentiation.

  15. FRANCISCA – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    This course reminds me of the variety of resources available to me.

  16. Gicela – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    I was great. Very informative.

  17. Rachel – Springfield City School District (verified owner) –

    Great course!

  18. Claudia – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas!!!

  19. Daniela – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    Good resource!

  20. Nancy – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    Good ideas on book extensions.

  21. Leslie – MONROEVILLE LOCAL (verified owner) –

    Very well done, but many of the techniques I had already implemented.

  22. Patricia – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    Good course makes me put things into perspective.

  23. Pedro – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was very interested.

  24. Roberto – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    This course provided interesting information and some new ideas for my classroom.

  25. Alberto – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    useful but long.

  26. Erika – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    great short course

  27. Feliciana – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    Great course to see how else you can expose students to different learning methods.

  28. Sandra – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    Wonderful course!

  29. Selene – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    good.

  30. Patricia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    I makes me feel motivated to try new things in my classroom.

  31. David – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    Good Resources!

  32. Danny – Los Angeles Unified School District (verified owner) –

    This was very helpful

  33. Angelica – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –

    No comment

  34. Heather – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas

  35. Louis – GALENA PARK ISD (verified owner) –

    Too much time was spent recounting the plot line of novels.

  36. Susan – FORT BEND ISD (verified owner) –

    I really liked it for ideas for min-research papers – loved the video

  37. Najat – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –

    It was interesting and insightful.

  38. Crystal – Springfield City School District (verified owner) –

    Good.

  39. Martha – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    It is very interesting to see how students can become independent thinkers and responsible decision makers.

  40. GUADALUPE – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    I have been using this.

  41. Diane – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –

    It is informative and has good ideas.

  42. Colleen – Gloucester County Public Schools (verified owner) –

    This was a great way to get ideas for specific books to use and activities to go with each book, but also leads to using the concepts with other books I already use in my classroom.

  43. Erica – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –

    This is very helpful to see different ways for kids to learn and make connections. This can be good for also giving choices

  44. Roxanna – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    I really enjoyed this course. It gave me a lot of ideas of how to give the students choices on their projects.

  45. Donna – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –

    very useful information for my classroom

  46. LILIANA – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    To high level for my grade

  47. Jessica – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked the course and was able to get some ideas even for my prekinder students.

  48. Robert S. – RAYMONDVILLE ISD (verified owner) –

    Well done presentation. Gives me something new to explore in my classroom.

  49. Chet – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –

    I thought it had some great points of view on how we can do things differently.

  50. Alma – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked it.

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