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. Yesenia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    This was a very interesting course.

  2. Taren – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed this presentation and gained some new ideas for my students!

  3. Clarence – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –

    good information

  4. Chere – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    Interesting course. I like the way their tied everything together. They used all sorts of media to help the students learn.

  5. Elizabeth – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    This was an amazing course that gave many awesome ideas.

  6. Annette – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    I am a reading teaching and I love this course.

  7. Jonathan – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    description didn’t specify what books this meant to think outside of. Felt like it was geared more toward english classes

  8. Andrea – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    This course have me a lot of great ideas I’d now like to try in my classroom.

  9. Jose – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Good

  10. Amanda – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    It what great but I would have trouble using it in math.

  11. Betsy – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    This simply symbolizes its name Thinking Outside the Box, a book is not jut to read and respond, it is meant to inhale information and exhale knowledge.

  12. Lecia – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –

    This course has great ideas to use with higher level thinkers.

  13. Andy – WODEN ISD (verified owner) –

    This course is more applicable to some subjects than others

  14. Kamerin – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas to use with novels you are already using in your curriculum.

  15. Robin – HUGHES SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    I really liked the out of the box thinking.

  16. Beth – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    Great, innovative ideas!

  17. Julie – HARPER ISD (verified owner) –

    I think this is more focused on younger grades.

  18. Irma – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    The course was very interesting, but the audio was difficult to hear. Even when I raised the volume in my laptop

  19. Johnna – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    4 stars ****

  20. Lillian – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas I can use in my classroom.

  21. Amy – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    Audio was lacking. I felt like the description didn’t match the content well. Many of the ideas weren’t relevant to me.

  22. Oakley – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –

    I love the many examples provided to “Think Outside the Book”

  23. Laurie – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    very informative.

  24. Melanie – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner) –

    This course provided me with many useful ideas that I can apply in the classroom easily and effectively. I like how the information was presented in a simple and clear manner.

  25. Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Great

  26. Keith – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –

    Great ideas on how to get students to work at a higher level and have fun. Some challenging and thought provoking ways to get kids to learn.

  27. Jessica – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –

    This was easy to follow and gave good examples/ideas for activities along with very specific resources.

  28. Demi – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –

    good course

  29. steve – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas on how expand your thinking on how to engage students when using literature.

  30. Anne – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    very good ideas

  31. Veronica – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Too long and only small amount of info was interesting.

  32. Yadira – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    It is great.

  33. linda – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –

    it is needed

  34. Tracy – COLDWATER EXEMPTED VILLAGE (verified owner) –

    This course was very helpful! I have a list of books to read, maybe to use with my students. I also have ideas to try with my class.

  35. Brandee – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas to use in the classroom!

  36. Traci – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    These were great project/research ideas.

  37. Casey – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –

    I think it would have been better if you could see some of the examples the presenters were discussing.

  38. Stephanie – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    Great resources and ideas to use in the classroom.

  39. Debra – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –

    I really liked the whole idea of students thinking beyond the book or the page. It gets them to thinking about what they are actually doing and learning about. They are also thinking about how this can apply to themselves.

  40. Courtney – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –

    This course provide me with different ideas on how students can have more choice in the classroom.

  41. mary – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    Its very informative! I took 5 pages of notes because i learned about a variety of ways to not only engage my students, but to actually have my students go beyond the pages of their books and to learn about themselves.

  42. Leticia – DRISCOLL ISD (verified owner) –

    Good Ideas

  43. ericka – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –

    Excellent!

  44. Tammy – HUGHES SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    This course provided several ideas that would work in my classroom. It was well-organized and well-presented.

  45. Jyssania – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    It’s awesome it helped a lot.

  46. Maria – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    The training was very informative. I really appreciate all the resources provided in this course.

  47. Judy – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –

    Very good ideas that can be implemented with upper level.

  48. Sarah – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –

    It was a good course but aimed at elementary learners.

  49. Sandra – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    This was good. I am going to check out the websites mentioned and I got some new book titles to try.

  50. Maribel – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course gave good ideas on different responses that can be created by students.

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