Thinking Outside the Book

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.

Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.

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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. Daniel – OLENTANGY LOCAL (verified owner) –

    Good class. Brought up things I had not though of before.

  2. Cheryl – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    It was great!

  3. Martha – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    very interesting information

  4. Gilbert – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative

  5. Joel – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    It’s a little better than others.

  6. Irasema – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas to implement easily in the classroom.

  7. amanda – East Muskingum Local Schools (verified owner) –

    I learned a lot of activities to use for the gifted learners.

  8. Adriana – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Interesting. I learned about other ways to have student write about the books they have read with others.

  9. Abel – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –

    Many options to teach students in different modes.

  10. Denisse – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Wonderful!

  11. Azucena – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas!

  12. Jaime – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –

    This has great information on how to “Think outside” the box for our students to tie information in together and relate. I think this is fantastic for all students.

  13. Yvette – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas for students to get creative.

  14. Jennifer – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    This offered great ideas and resources for using novels in the classroom.

  15. Adriana – Pilot (verified owner) –

    This was a very informative session on autononous thinking.

  16. Carys – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –

    Fun and interesting

  17. Clarissa – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed it.

  18. Jo Ann – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Has good resources.

  19. Ana Lorelly – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Helpful and applicable information.

  20. Adam – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    This course was helpful in helping students reach their fullest potential.

  21. Maria – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    It is a very good curse.

  22. Paula – HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –

    It was informative.

  23. Audrey – GROVEPORT MADISON LOCAL (verified owner) –

    As an English teacher, the activities suggested here are top-notch and I will be using 3 of them!!

  24. Brenda – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    very helpful!

  25. Dulce – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    It was a good course for GT students.

  26. Banesa – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    I really enjoyed the methods and ideas presented in this training.

  27. Jessica – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    it was good

  28. Felipe – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    I think using books, peoms, and research are great tools to differentiation.

  29. Vanessa – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great course.

  30. Ana – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very interesting

  31. Vilma – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    It is truly fascinating!

  32. Ofelia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very good course

  33. Patricia – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –

    Great activities!

  34. ESTRELLA – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    It was well organized and very interesting.

  35. Rosavel – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –

    I was amazed with the information.

  36. Charlotte – BOLING ISD (verified owner) –

    This course has some easy, useful methods that can be implemented with existing content.

  37. Manuel – FABENS ISD (verified owner) –

    Informative

  38. Justin – FABENS ISD (verified owner) –

    This course provides many excellent suggestions for getting students to interact more deeply and authentically with literature. We want students to be active readers and, in turn, creators of new knowledge, so I think the suggestions herein are wonderful.

  39. Brian – FABENS ISD (verified owner) –

    This course allows one to work at their own pace and manages to break all the information into manageable pieces. That makes it easy to learn and acquire very useful information.

  40. Abraham – FABENS ISD (verified owner) –

    Believe it was a great way to introduce methods quickly.

  41. Philip – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed the experience, learned a lot.

  42. Lorena – FABENS ISD (verified owner) –

    Cool concepts and new ideas for projects

  43. Juileta – FABENS ISD (verified owner) –

    Liked the examples for each section.

  44. Danny – FABENS ISD (verified owner) –

    Good Information

  45. LaDonna – MIAMI EAST LOCAL (verified owner) –

    course was interesting and I gleaned a few new ideas to try in my literature classes.

  46. Juan Carlos – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    🙂

  47. Moira – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas!

  48. christine – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –

    This is great for English, but does have some handy ideas you could use when covering content also.

  49. Araceli – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas! Awesome job!

  50. George – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent course to help students become creative thinkers.

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