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.
Lisa – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great suggestions!!!!
Kristell – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great strategies to use with the novels we already read in class.
Noemi – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great course.
Rebecca – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting & will incorporate probes & personal responses.
Tricia – HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
I appreciated the new ideas presented in this course.
Ashley – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Good strategies to help gifted students in the classroom
Rebecca – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
It has great information.
Victoria – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed seeing the different activities you can do with books with students to push them to really get into the book.
Gracie – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great resources, can be tweaked for a PK classroom.
Martha – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative
Irma – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I would like to see more implementation in the class room such as how to teach it and more student work examples
Rosalinda – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Creative ideas!
Joshua – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
It is worth taking.
Kim – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course offered a lot of great information that I could use in my classroom!
Rebecca – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the book recommendations provided in this course!
laura – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It was very intersting.
Ana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It is very interesting and helpful to our students
Valarie – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
Good
jessica – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed it.
Christy – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
It had lots of great ideas!
Jaime – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Useful activities that adapt easily to any classroom.
Marla – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent ideas to stretch student thinking about literature
Marylyn – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
The ideas were great!!!
Kary – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
It had a lot of great ideas!!!
Tashanna – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful and informative! I received great information, a few resources, and excellent tips and guides. I can not wait to use these methods in the classroom!
shaunda – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
These were some great suggestions to implement within my classroom.
CELINA B – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the ideas that they provided to help students.
James – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Great examples of practical and short amount of time in implementing.
Linda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
recommend
Tiffani – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Loved it!
Marissa – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
quick and understandable
MARIA G – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Good class but geared towards English
Lori – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas. Perfect for 4th graders. Much more in depth activities for students to respond to literature.
ALEJANDRO – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It is okay
Maximo – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
Very good course
Tony – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
Some good ideas
Eliasib – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
great
Angela – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Great course. I love the different ways that you can interact with reading, movies, etc. I would have liked to see some more examples of some of the options just to visualize what was being described on the screen to me. I thank you though and hope to use these in my science class.
Julio – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
it’s fine
Julie – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Has some usable ideas and books I had not used before.
Heather – WASHINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed learning different strategies and seeing real life examples. It makes it easier to see how I would use this in my classroom.
Carolyn – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
Great strategies. Different than the norm. I love giving students more freedom to research from something they read.
Paula – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great training because she gave real world examples that I could use in my own classroom.
Nora – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
amazing
Maritza – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
easy and resource ful
Katie – DAWSON-BRYANT LOCAL (verified owner) –
Several of the methods were useful and engaging. I will incorporate into my own classroom.
Tonya – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to help Ss of all abilities
REBECCA M – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Liked students putting themselves into shoes of characters they read about.
Kallie – Archbold Area Schools (verified owner) –
Gives you insight of different tools in differentiation.
Veronica – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas.