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.
Jennifer – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed it. Creative, new ideas I can use in my reading class.
Alicia – HERTFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I feel that the course was beneficial with a lot of information that I can use.
Julie – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I loved the examples and ideas that were shared. I will be using these in my classroom next year!
Wendy – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
Would be good for elementary and English classes
Heidi – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course and gives quick ideas and resources to use and implement in the classroom. I like the examples and explanations as well.
Monique – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
5 stars
Jennifer – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was very helpful and gave me several good ideas.
Daniel – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative course!
Brenda – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
This was an interesting way to differentiate research assignments and to look more in depth when reading different kinds of books.
Jodie – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
I liked this course. It provided some activities and ideas I had not seen or considered for my students.
Maria – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
It shows different tools for differentiation in a very creative way.
Mary – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Excellent ideas!
Barbara – HERTFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
This course was easy to navigate and it provided you with great ideas to differentiation in the classroom to think outside the book.
julie – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I would like to see some examples of this course for high school and for foreign language.
Marc – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Course was good. It gave you lots of suggestions as well as resources that you could use.
Tara – FRONTIER LOCAL (verified owner) –
Excellent course with ideas that you can use immediately in the classroom.
Patricia – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Love the ideas and book suggestions.
Michael – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
I would like information that shows how to use this for a history classroom.
Maria – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
It was very informative.
Victoria – FRONTIER LOCAL (verified owner) –
This was a well prepared listing of activities that are appropriate for TAG students.
Sharon – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I liked this course. It gave me some great ideas that I can use in the classroom immediately.
Larissa – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
I misread the title… My dyslexia read, Thinking Outside The Box”, not “Book”. This would be great for an ELAR teacher.
VICTOR – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
Nice for classes below high school and classes where students are on same general ability leve.
Bricia – ASHLAND CITY (verified owner) –
This course was well created, however possibly challenging for kindergarteners.
Veronica – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I loved this course, the resources and authentic learning that was shared in order to apply it in the classroom.
Karen – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas.
Sheri – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
There was some interesting things mentioned in this presentation. However, I felt like a lot of it was redundant.
Irene – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the strategies.
Jennifer – CHARDON LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course is quick and provides great ideas.
Teresa – FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I found it very helpful.
Amanda – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
I truly enjoyed it and it was very informative
Maria Isabel – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Very good!
Debbie – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas
Brenda – Franklin Local Schools (verified owner) –
Enjoyed the activities they used to engage the students.
Melody – BENJAMIN LOGAN LOCAL (verified owner) –
I love that there is a variety of strategies that I can use with my students to help differentiate my instruction.
Jennifer – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –
Very quick and easy to understand.
Betsy – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Engaging. The time went by very quickly.
Thomas – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
It was good for teachers who have a room full of Talented and Gifted Students.
Kimberly – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
This course offered good ideas. I was hoping for some ideas in high school math classes.
Dolores – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
I feel strongly that many of the suggestions given i can start using in my classroom right away.
Norma – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas and book references to apply the differentiation strategies. I would really prefer for the presenters to include secondary books that my grade level would like to read as well.
Laura – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this was a very useful course. I actually learned about some really useful tools that I could easily incorporate into one of my units of study.
Carsen – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Gives you creative ways to change a classroom and implement reading tools students need.
Juene’ – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
it was informative
Huichung – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD – SAN ANTONIO DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Very informative .
Peter – TEAYS VALLEY LOCAL (verified owner) –
Fast and lots of good ideas! I loved it; I think there’s a lot of great information in here. There are lots of ideas I’d like to try with my class. I also feel like this allows for strong differentiation. I enjoy being able to take so much from a presentation.
Kenzi – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Cynthia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This is great course with many helpful ideas. Thank you.
Joyce – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I liked it because it gave me different ideas to use in my classroom.
SAUL – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Nice ideas to give options for the students to be creative to present their ideas of the book they have read.