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.
Angie – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed learning about Thinking Outside the book! Great ideas!!
Eric – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –
Good activity ideas.
Rebecca – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
too long
Olinda – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It is a great resource for reading teachers.
Robert – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
thanks
Debbie – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
interesting for certain subjects
Cesar – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
good way to relate to students
Sonia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and to the point
Kelsey – BOLING ISD (verified owner) –
It was informational.
Linda – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
I like the different ways to learn
Jennifer – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
was well thought out and put together
Jeri – BOLING ISD (verified owner) –
informative
Angela – BOLING ISD (verified owner) –
It should’ve covered lower level a little better.
Brenda – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –
I really liked it learned some new ideas.
Martin – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
good presentation
Rodney – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –
I don’t think this was very helpful to me as a math teacher.
Orpha – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –
Loved the ideas shared in this training such as Voki classroom.
Elizabeth – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
This is a very good course for those that teach upper elementary, middle, or high school language arts. Great ideas that allow the students ownership and creativity within their learning.
Angelica – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
I thought these activities were interesting; however, not all of them would really help my 10th and 12th graders. Some may find these childish.
Janice – BOLING ISD (verified owner) –
GREAT
Juan – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
Very useful ideas for History too.
Terrance – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
The course very informative.
Cecilia – TULOSO-MIDWAY ISD (verified owner) –
These were great ideas.
Agar – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course gives teachers many ideas on how to give the students choices for a book study project and extend their thinking and research skills.
Suzanne – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
This course provides great suggestions for differentiating literature!
Amanda – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
I think the ideas a good but I didn’t feel it had much relevance to my grade level.
Rene – TULOSO-MIDWAY ISD (verified owner) –
this is more for english and history. Could maybe be used in science. With math it is hard when we have to cover “x” objectives before the state exam. Maybe can be done afterwards as a final project at end of school.
Laura – TULOSO-MIDWAY ISD (verified owner) –
It’s great.
Reynaldo – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
very interesting presentation
Richard – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner) –
It does not apply to some subject.
Nancy – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner) –
Great!
Tracey – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Interesting ideas were shared but the presentation seemed a little choppy, like bits and pieces were put together and there wasn’t always a nice flow to it all.
Kimberly – BOLING ISD (verified owner) –
good
LORI A – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This is for upper elementary.
Norma – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent presentation.
Michael – TULOSO-MIDWAY ISD (verified owner) –
Highly informative.
Jose – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –
very helpful
Jesus – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner) –
Very Informative
Maurilia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent Info
Kevin – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great ideas
John – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
I was very informative.
Redson – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner) –
It’s an additional idea for teachers to use
Todd – FRONTIER LOCAL (verified owner) –
Great course.
Many useful tools.
Jessica – Private Pay (verified owner) –
great ideas
Huiching – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Absolutely.
Emily – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Good information.
Gwynetta – TULOSO-MIDWAY ISD (verified owner) –
great
Olivia – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
I rate this course a 5
Kira – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful.
My – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Not really applicable to math