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.
Meghan – RIDGEDALE LOCAL (verified owner) –
This was helpful
Carol – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great resources embedded in video for challenging students.
Brittany – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Full of great ideas that would be easy to implement in the classroom.
SanJuana – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Course was well organized. It provided me with many ways to empower my students to respond.
Sheryl – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Great information!
Johanna – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Not so helpful for High school
Danielle – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Good ideas~
Leslie – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
I like to see examples of class activities I can choose from.
Janice – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Deanna – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for strategiews to use in the classroom!
Joshua – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Great.
YVONNE – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Loved the different ideas kids can respond to books.
Alicia – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This courses in helpful and insightful.
Kealey – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for Reading Responses
Manuel – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
It is a good course.
Lindsay – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
It was informative with some interesting ideas.
Leyla – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Ideas were fantastic and definitely applicable for the grade that I teach.
PEDRO – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent ideas to use with students who are not as engaged in class material.
Monica – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
I like all the ideas about using books for research papers
Dennice – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I felt like this course offered great ideas that will be easy to begin using in my classroom.
ERIKA – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
great ideas for lessons
Amy – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I feel that this PD is geared towards older grades. Where it is possible to do in younger grades, it is harder because they don’t have as much independence.
Maricela – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation. I love the simplistic approach and all students would benefit. I appreciate that the variety of activities can fit a variety of students.
Jeannette – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Good training
Esmeralda – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the different ways students can use their creativity in many different ways.
Jill – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
The course was hard to follow since it was just graphics used. It would have been nice to see the presenters talking at some points. Also, some of the conversations were hard to hear
Carrie – DAWSON-BRYANT LOCAL (verified owner) –
Good ideas, Focused on elementary, but I can adapt some of them to high school.
LAUREL – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
good ideas
Jesse – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
great
Erika – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Rachel – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
I thought this course had good information in it!
Illiana – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great course!
Cadi – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I found it very informative and interesting.
Anne – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Love all the examples that I can begin to implement in my classroom!
Mason – ASHLAND CITY (verified owner) –
It was a good course.
james – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
A fun way to teach kids differently . Good ideas are here to be found.
Steve – MARIETTA CITY (verified owner) –
Some good ideas to implement.
Sergio – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This is for Elementary or Middle school teachers not high school teachers.
Yolanda – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Resources we can use in class for GT and the rest of students
Richard – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Adding more tools in the teaching toolbox is always a good thing. Approaching reading and writing in a exciting way increases engagement.
Whitney – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed learning about different books to use in class.
Julieann – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting.
Daniel – MARION LOCAL (verified owner) –
I think this was a great course. I teach math however, and it was hard for me to apply.
EDWIN – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It was good.
Brittiany – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of information for ELAR teachers
Luis – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course will give you good ideas to be implemented in your classroom.
Janet – NEW KNOXVILLE LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course was wonderful! I am hoping to implement several of the ideas in my classroom!
Shannon – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I think this offers excellent materials for ELAR teachers in higher grades. I do think that some of these ideas can be modified to use with early childhood.
Sahade – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful.
Maegan – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
This provided fresh ideas for the ELA classroom.