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.
Laura – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
The bee video was not necessary. This is basically a series of book reviews/recommendations. I found some ideas i can use.
Ashley – ROCK HILL LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course gave practical reading-related activities that will be helpful in differentiating for both TAG and IEP students.
carol – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course.
LISA M – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Helpful tips and ideas to go along with reading
Veronica – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
Great for upper grades
Rhonda – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Michele – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD – SAN ANTONIO DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I love all the different resources presented in this course!
Ella – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
very interesting ive learned alot
Samara – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I believe the title of this workshop is deceiving. I recommend that it be changed to Thinking Outside the Book for K-8 students. If I taught K-8, I would have appreciated this workshop more. None of the novels mentioned were for high school students. Yes, I could adapt some of the lessons to high school, but more information should have been provided to make those adaptations.
Karen – Coshocton City Schools (verified owner) –
Great ideas for project-based learning!
Melissa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting on how teachers can use these strategies for students
Zoe – FRONTIER LOCAL (verified owner) –
Enjoyable. Lots of good resources for teachers to use.
Jay – Coshocton City Schools (verified owner) –
Very well done practical in today’s teaching world.
Blanca M – Private Pay (verified owner) –
It open my imagination to think outside the classical instructional box when it comes to students’ response to books.
Roxanne Selee – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This workshop offer great ideas to use in the classroom.
Maribel – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas and great books
yanina – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
I really liked it. It gave me precise ways that I can use a book to teach my students to learn about any topic.
Kim – HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
I thought there were several ideas that could apply to my science classroom. I didn’t realize it was primarily reading when I started it.
Patricia – New Lexington City Schools (verified owner) –
Good ideas to use with all students, not just gifted.
Melissa – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
very helpful
isabel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great
Tyson – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
I believe it is very informing and helpful in identifying and guiding student achievement.
Dixi – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoy Nicole Shannon. Her presentations always give me great ideas that I will utilize in the classroom.
Stacy – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Extremely interesting, and useful.
Kelly – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I loved the concrete examples.
Devon – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
good
Clare – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Great for upper elementary and above!
kimberly – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It had great ideas.
Vicki – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
easy to understand and implement strategies immediately
Jami – VALLEY VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
You can take the ideas and use them immediately in your classroom.
Argelia – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
Excellent
Lucero – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the training. Straight to the point.
Connie – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Ericka – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
interesting
Lorena – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Not for PK
Lori – BENJAMIN LOGAN LOCAL (verified owner) –
I thought a lot of great ideas were presented that would be easy yet beneficial to implement in a classroom.
Ashlie – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
It was some great ideas but I feel it needed more examples to see the end project.
Minerva – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This will help the student write a book.
francisca – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I love the ideas presented.
Claudia – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great way to get new ideas
Daniel – VALLEY VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course provided clear examples of strategies to allow our students opportunities to creatively express themselves while using depth and complexity from Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Vivian – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
The course gave great ideas for students to show their level of understanding beyond an essay.
Rachel – REYNOLDSBURG CITY (verified owner) –
This course was helpful
Becky – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I ABSOLUTELY loved this course. I learned a great deal of practical and easy ways to enhance my teaching in ELA!
Willie – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very informative and provided lots of examples and suggestions.
Dyan – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
This was a very hands-on training with specific ideas I can implement in my classroom TOMORROW!
Cesar – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
It is awesome
Heather – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
kinda long but neat info
Karen – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
While the ideas were not necessarily original, they were well-presented and very applicable. It would be nice if some more recent books were shared as well as older classics.
Joshua – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
good; may be more difficult to use in subjects such as Math