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. Jenny – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    Lots of great ideas to use

  2. Clair – HUGHES SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    This course has very useful creativity ideas to respond to books.

  3. Derek – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    It was very beneficial and can easily be brought into the classroom.

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

    Great ideas and useful information

  5. Martha – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –

    I think it was helpful to see some ideas about extending leaning during book studies.

  6. Betsy – BETHEL LOCAL (verified owner) –

    It had good ideas.

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

    Interesting course and gave good ideas to have students work on

  8. Mary – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –

    These are great ideas for students to respond to the books they read or the research they do without doing a boring report.

  9. Tanya – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    This was just a wake up call to think outside the book and to step up our planning for our students.

  10. Debra – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed hearing and learning about the various themes for students to respond to book they have read. I was able to get some great ideas for my classroom and i look forward to using them. I know the students will enjoy the many ways to respond to books they have read.

  11. Roxana – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    I really enojoyed it!

  12. Mireyda – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    The training was interesting.

  13. Priscella – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    This module had many great ideas to use in the classroom. I complete loved and plan to use these ideas in my classroom!

  14. Annalee – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Great and interesting

  15. Kimberly – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas!

  16. chris – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    Some great ideas for the classroom!

  17. Kennie – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –

    I thougt the activities mentioned help students think outside the book. I ue mostly all of them in my class.

  18. Rebecca – Private Pay (verified owner) –

    This course gives great ideas for reading enrichment.

  19. Lori – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked the different examples and websites they provided.

  20. Linda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    I helps with activity ideas for common books used in the classroom.

  21. Cortni – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    This course showed me all the different ways that I could have my students learn how to find and present research at an early age in unique and challenging ways.

  22. Ramona – LUFKIN ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas and lesson ideas for Thinking out of the box,but most of the activities were to difficult for my Kindergarten students to do independently.

  23. Ted – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    well paced and very informative

  24. Maria – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –

    Great information!

  25. Kourtney – ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY (verified owner) –

    This course had some GREAT ideas that I could easily implement in my classroom.

  26. Donald – EULA ISD (verified owner) –

    Interesting ideas for students to research.

  27. Ligia – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    This course is very précised to make students know themselves.

  28. Kelly – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    Even though I don’t teach English or use novels, it was interesting to learn about letting students choose their learning. I look forward to using books in my class and asking more extensive questions to keep their brains learning.

  29. Lorinda – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas of ways to engage students in higher level thinking that is very user friendly.

  30. Denae – Region 17 ESC (verified owner) –

    great information

  31. Lisa – Private Pay (verified owner) –

    I liked the examples but they seemed random and geared to upper elementary

  32. Adrianne – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    This course had many ideas to make reading interesting and get students engaged in the learning.

  33. DAALMA – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative!

  34. Adriana Lamar – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent ideas on expanding on themes embedded in books.

  35. Melissa Yvette – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Interesting

  36. Anabella – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    I really enjoyed this course. I gave some good ideas for our classrooms on my campus

  37. Sheila – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –

    Love the how to poem idea

  38. Rebecca – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    Geared for upper elementry and older grades. Need other book choices for younger grades.

  39. Tracey – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    It was geared more for upper grades. Lower levels can use some of the information. The book choices were for older students.

  40. Gloria – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –

    Great ideas, simple format to follow.

  41. Laura – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –

    Great course.

  42. PRISCILLA – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    I loved it!

  43. Claire – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    This was a solid course. As a secondary teacher, I like to hear what elementary school teachers do so that I can bring more creativity into my classroom.

  44. Terri – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    Some great ideas to incorporate easily into instruction.

  45. Lilia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Love it!

  46. Haley – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –

    4 great ideas

  47. Amanda – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was very informational

  48. Lauren – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was very informational

  49. Cristina – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    The course was thorough.

  50. Lee Anne – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    It was good,

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