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. Cynthia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Informative

  2. Martin – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    It is better than a lecture, more interactive and refreshing.

  3. Rosa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Facilitates a variety of tools that enhances students ability to performance and excel to their fullest potential.

  4. Perla – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    It does provide with good ideas to implement in the classroom with GT students and regular students.

  5. Mary – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –

    I found this course very helpful. They covered many ways to extend and create meaningful learning.

  6. Nydia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    I think it is beneficial to let students take some charge of what they want to learn.

  7. Danielle – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –

    5 stars for ideas given to help student create an understanding of something they read

  8. Noemi – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent ideas

  9. Sandra – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    I really liked the different ways to help students think outside the box when it comes to books.

  10. Julie – EAST PORTER COUNTY SCHOOL CORPORATION (verified owner) –

    It was quick and interesting. Some of the books sound good to try in upper elementary classrooms.

  11. Anna – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent course with engaging activities.

  12. Olga – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Gives great examples of activities that can be used to promote depth and complexity.

  13. Isela – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    I think it’s a very easy to follow course that shows postive results.

  14. ROSAURA A – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course is great and very informative. I enjoyed learning the different ways to Think Outside the Box.

  15. Kristy – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    This is a fantastic course! Full of great information!

  16. Danielle – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –

    Great ideas for differentiated ways that students can respond to a book they are reading that engages them and excites them about learning. Real examples of how to incorporate these ideas into your own classroom.

  17. John – CLEBURNE ISD (verified owner) –

    Good information.

  18. Jennifer J – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –

    I thought this was a helpful course.

  19. Karina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    I didn’t like the audio, I think it can be better.

  20. Guadalupe – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Fun Course, goes over many different ideas that can be applied in variety of grade levels.

  21. Rebecca – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed the different approaches to thinking about what the students are reading and presenting different options on how to get them engaged.

  22. Stephanie – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –

    I thought this was a very informative video. I learned many new techniques I am eager to try this next year.

  23. Kasi – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –

    I thought that the course was very impressive. It gave great strategies with different resources to use. I feel like for one hour of PD that you get a lot from it.

  24. Laura C. – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    Many ideas to increase creativity in the students.

  25. Rhonda – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    It was very interesting

  26. Stephanie – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –

    Great for upper elementary and secondary

  27. Valerie – RIDGEDALE LOCAL (verified owner) –

    This was a good course for discovering new ideas for book responses. I would recommend this course for 2nd grade teachers and up.

  28. Katherine – EANES ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas presented. I would have liked more examples for the secondary level.

  29. Alonso – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    4 star

  30. Leonard – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –

    I think the course was very interesting.

  31. Elisa – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas!

  32. Elvia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas for research.

  33. Christa – Pilot (verified owner) –

    Although I am able to adjust for first grade, I felt as though the majority of the strategies were geared towards older elementary to high school students.

  34. Ashley – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas that are applicable to my classroom!

  35. Rigoberto – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    enjoyed it

  36. Kaitlin – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –

    Lots of great ideas, just not always suitable to lower grades.

  37. Jessica – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    It wasn’t as engaging.

  38. Joshua – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –

    good

  39. Zulma – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –

    It’s a fantastic course. I’m walking away with many new ideas and great resources.

  40. Rosana – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative and very interesting to see all the books that are available and recommended for mini-research papers.

  41. Donald – ASHLAND CITY (verified owner) –

    This really let’s you think about how to incorporate more in your classroom.

  42. PATRICIA – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    I was ok with this presentation. I believe this is better suited for upper grades.

  43. Viola – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    I like the way students can relate to a book they read.

  44. Shelly – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –

    THis was a great course with lots of ideas and resources!!

  45. Lindsay – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    I thought the course gave great ideas for ways students can respond to literature. I will be able to implement several of these ideas in to the novel studies within my classroom.

  46. Angela – SILSBEE ISD (verified owner) –

    I thought it was very informative.

  47. Romelia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas to incorporate with your novel readings.

  48. Veronica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    very informative

  49. Rene – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    It was insightful.

  50. Carol – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked it.

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