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.
Kendra – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas.
Linda – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course has great ideas for ELA classrooms.
Celene – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
This course provided meaningful suggestions to implement student-driven choices to support higher level thinking and learning within the context of high quality literature in the classroom.
Erin – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful and I will be implementing many of the ideas into my own classroom!
Della – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
It had good examples I would like to use but will need time to implement. Not really geared towards my classroom style .
Valarie – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Great info!
Karla – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course was very informative.
Lizdebeth – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I love how this course was to the point. It gave me many ideas to immediately bring to my classroom and help students think outside the box.
Antonio – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Esperanza – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
DAMION – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Informative and helpful
Denise – BEEVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
It was great for older students.
Ermelinda – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting session.
Macie – HERTFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Informative and a must watch for those who may need help organizing their reading activities.
Amy – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
a good course to learn many activities to help not just gifted but all students.
Tammara – CARDINAL LOCAL (verified owner) –
Great course.
Brittney – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
The course was informative. I think this course would be more beneficial to the upper grade levels.
Arcelia – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed new information.
Jay – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
interesting
Rudy – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful in providing other resources that teachers can use to help students take control of their own learning and think outside the box and books that they read.
Katharine – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Seems better for elementary level.
RUBEN – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
The course explains and outlines what students need to do in order to “Think Outside of the Box” and be more productive students.
john – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
very interesting and helpful, but more for classroom teachers, not P.E. teachers.
margret – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
ok
Sandra – MARIETTA CITY (verified owner) –
It was okay. But I would have rather the authors not spent so much time talking about specific books so much. The books they discussed didn’t really relate to my grade level. Perhaps more time could’ve been spent giving generic or “format” type information that could be used no matter what book is being studied. I would’ve liked to have seen written examples of the poems, letters, and mini-reports that the students did.
JAMES – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this presentation. Lots of food for thought.
Graciela – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed learning about how I can take a book and have students do so much more than just a simple report. It is something I know my students would enjoy.
Jonathan – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
This was good. I may use it in class. It is a good way to include reading but make it less painful by providing options.
Sherial – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed hearing ways to engage students
Daniel – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Great Course!
Yesenia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It’s great. It shows different methods and ways to differentiate instruction for gifted learners.
Shannon – VALLEY VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course has some useful ideas.
Lisa – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner) –
As a science teacher, I intentionally chose a topic with a strong literary component. It helps me to think outside of the perimeters of my subject area too.
Morgan – GAHANNA-JEFFERSON CITY (verified owner) –
This course provides projects students could complete in response to a book they have read.
Rebecca – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
This was very helpful.
HEATHER – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Easy to follow and understand
Melissa – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Many great ideas.
Dawn – CLEAR CREEK ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course was great especially for elementary reading.
Lynda – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This course helped me to think about allowing our research projects to grow out of what we are reading.
Lisa M – BEEVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
At first, I was afraid this course was for older students as I teach 3rd Grade. But, as it progressed I found so many ways to enhance the learning in my own classroom. Great ideas that I can’t wait to implement in my own curriculum.
Charles – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
Great course, very informative.
Kallie – Archbold Area Schools (verified owner) –
This course was helpful to my grade level as an elementary teacher. There were many creative resources shared that can help me differentiate how I ask my students to reflect on a text.
Rodney – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
It was a good course at looking how you can use different activities and forms of evaluation when reading a book.
Heather – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
I like how the course was simple to navigate, and could be completed independently and at my own pace. The concepts were easy to understand, and the quiz did not try to trick anyone. I would certainly recommend other teachers take this course.
Blanca – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting and helpful. It offered something I can take and use in my classroom immediately.
Yvonne – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to implement in classroom.
Tina – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
Interesting tools
Angela – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Great GT training
Tiffany – Fort Frye Local (verified owner) –
Quick course with lots of great differentiated, high-level thinking book ideas.
Patrick – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
I thought this class was great.