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.
Brenda – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was good.
Shannon – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas that are easy to implement in the classroom.
Katherine – LUFKIN ISD (verified owner) –
Enjoyed and received useful information
Lindsay – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
It was packed full of specific lessons you can use in the classroom
Mark – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
It was better for lower grades
NORA – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course is very informative and gives specific ideas and examples of how to use great reading books as resources to implement higher level thinking and writing.
Elisabeth – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Yolanda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative.
Lina – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was quick and straight to the point.
Elizabeth – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
Very good information
Graciela G – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Target every grade level. There is a huge difference between kinder and second grade as to how to do a book study/mini research.
Graciela – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent ideas on activities that can be done with a book!
Terri – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great information and strategies I will be able to use in my classroom
Esmeralda – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Alison – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Good ideas presented.
Crystal – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed the ideas that were presented to help students think outside the book.
Daniel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Jan – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
I love using literature to connect to the world around us.
Windi – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
Really great information provided, but the audio was sometime difficult to understand with one of the presenters.
Ashley – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
Great selection of books are talked about that your gifted readers would enjoy!
Terri – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
There were actual projects and examples that teachers could apply to their classroom. This is really helpful.
DAWN – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Good!
Olga – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful training on differentiation ideas for students.
Kelle – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
It was a good course.
Juan – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It is lengthy.
Beverly – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This is full of practical ideas that cause high-engagement for kids.
Angie – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Good
Leticia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Oneida – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I tried to follow the ideas presented here but I could not get a real visual of the assignments.
Christina – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
This is great for students in middle school.
Priscilla – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
interesting
Leanne – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas and resources
Juan – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting.
Roxanna – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I like the idea of “Thinking Outside the Book.” There are a lot of great ideas presented.
Erick – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
i learned some strategies to differentiate
Lucina – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
5 stars
Jeffrey – EANES ISD (verified owner) –
Great for elementary but still can use in HS.
Rachel – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
good.
Ashley – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas that I can use in my classroom!
Olivia – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
It was helpful to learn about different strategies and different choices to use in the classroom to help keep students more engaged and increase the learning process.
Dorothy – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It sounds like good ideas, but the online course felt rushed and there was no samples shown of the activities, which left me confused about how to complete these projects.
Nolan – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful. I enjoyed the ideas of how to make research more accessible to students using differentiation.
Lane – EANES ISD (verified owner) –
Instructors were great. Not very applicable to secondary students as course info described.
Lucia – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Jessica – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to easily implement.
Tricia – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for book responses.
Kristin – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Treceda – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course provides some really good differentiation methods for the classroom that are outside of the box.
Naomi – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
great!
Rhonda – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to use in my classroom.