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.
Alejandra – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Irisol – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Not bad at all. Had some great ideas.
Adriana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great insight.
Daniel – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
Great
Christina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to use in the classroom!
SEBASTIAN – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
interesting
Marjorie – HOLLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Always fun to see what creative students have done for their projects.
Raul – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
Great ideas for student extended learning.
Eliza – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was intresting
Diego – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
great
Melanie – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
The course had awesome ideas to implement into the classroom.
Jaime – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
It was informative on how to do research based projects.
Jacob – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great class.
Arely – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This course gives excellent resources to engage our students to think outside the book! Thanks a lot!
IRMA A – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Super valuable information for teachers to take to the classroom
Naomi – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
good information
Donna – HOLLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome!
Colleen – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Very good ideas for keeping students interested and to encourage enjoyment of reading.
Jared – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
It was good.
Robert – MEDINA VALLEY ISD (verified owner) –
well done
Andrew – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Meh.
Lauren – Private Pay (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful.
Melissa – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome ideas presented. I hadn’t heard of several of these.
David – EULA ISD (verified owner) –
Good thoughts. Good tools.
Sheri – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
It was not applicable
Melody – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting ideas!
Mark – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I found this training useful for Social Studies by teaching me new methods to getting students learn topics and historical personalities in depth. They take ownership in their own learning by letting them explore and create a more complex understanding of the things that we study in class.
Clara – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very good and creative ideas.
Leighann – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This was very interesting. I would like to have even more examples to apply in particular with the TEKS in my grade level.
Rocio – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This training gave me new ideas on how to incorporate meaningful literature into my everyday lessons.
Madeline – HALLETTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful!
Patrick – HOLLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting ideas and great way to present highlights of what each topic entailed.
Sydney – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Great!
Jade – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I am not a reading teacher, but I learned alot! Great class!
Staci – HALLETTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting!!
Sandra – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great!
Sonya – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting. I liked the ideas
Justin – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
informative.
Veronica – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful training
Esmeralda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
The course was very informative and provided examples of real lessons that have been completed in class.
Charles – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
The course was centered on one subject and elementary
Clay – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
The presentation was well conducted. It did have many different resources that we can use as teachers to invite change into our classrooms.
GABRIEL D – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This does have great ideas and resources.
Carla – ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY (verified owner) –
Great ideas to use in the classroom.
Danielle – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great Information.
zaida – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I thoroughly enjoyed this session.
Cynthia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting and informative
Miguel – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
The presenter shared some great resources that teachers can utilize in the classroom to differentiate.
Cynthia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Extremely helpful
Casey Lee – SILSBEE ISD (verified owner) –
It is a great course for ELAR or History