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.
Samantha – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Len – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –
I think the course is difficult to transfer to some subjects in high school.
Isabel C – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Benedict – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I would rate this as a four Star Presentation.
Aaron – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Thank you for the resources! They will be useful in my classrooom .
Wendy – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Definitely beneficial for upper grade elementary and beyond.
Kathryn – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Strong ideas for the classroom!
Thomas – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –
This has some good ideas for students in elementary school and middle school.
Jennifer – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas here!
Santos – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course is a more creative approach to learning versus a paper pencil lesson.
Michael – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent presentation!
Karina – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
It provides great ideas for 3rd grade and up. Hard to implement with lower grade levels.
melissa – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It had good information.
Liz – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –
This was phenomenal for teachers of varying learning styles and classrooms.
Samuel – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
More geared to elementary and MS, could be more rigorous for HS application
Maria – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –
Very clear to understand and follow.
Emily – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was for elementary schools, not middle school. My district is making me take this for GT updates, but it is not relevant to my grade level, which is very common for these GT trainings. The trainings focus on elementary students, not middle school or high school. It is such a waste of time. Also, the books in this training were overwhelmingly white (authors and characters), except for the token super-smart Asian stereotype character in a couple of them, which is really bad. One presenter “bragged” that she called her students “lazy readers” because they didn’t like a really old book! Maybe she should choose modern, relevant books for her students instead. These trainings should be better. All the presenters sounded white, they recommended mostly white books – I mean, COME ON. Do better.
Edna – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –
organized
Briget – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas and examples of book study projects.
Sharon – SAN MARCOS CISD (verified owner) –
Well-paced and offered good ideas for getting students excited about doing research.
Carla – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
This was awesome! I loved all of the ideas that I can take to my classroom and use with my students.
Meridith – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative with excellent information on how to implement differentiated instruction into your classroom.
Catherine – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I think the pacing for this course was just right. A lot of useful information given.
Shannon – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I like using literature to think outside the box.
Christina – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the visuals and examples.
Michelle – CLYDE-GREEN SPRINGS EXEMPTED VILLAGE (verified owner) –
I love these ideas. Finally something I can really use!
Maranda – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
It gave me lots of new ideas to use in the classroom.
Lisa – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great useful knowledge
Sandra – FABENS ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to help students
Rick – GAHANNA-JEFFERSON CITY (verified owner) –
Found topics interesting but not really high school level curriculum for the most part
Araceli – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting topics
craig – Private Pay (verified owner) –
It was a little too heavy on examples of the projects and could give more options
Mary – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –
I loved that it was ideas I can turn around and use right away in the classroom. I appreciated that she chose a reasonable amount of ideas and took the time to explain and give examples. I dislike when presenters list like 30 resources or ideas with little development, examples or explanation. Its like drinking from a firehose. TOO much to really take anything useful away.
Elizabeth – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Great, quick ideas for how to implement more GT learning in the classroom.
Pablo – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Exellent
Lee – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
some good information provided
Olga – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
it was great
Kelly – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
This class provided a solid activity list that could be applied to multiple different texts. They also provided technology that could be incorperated. It felt quick and was interesting to listen to.
Sandra – Prince George County Public Schools (verified owner) –
Its great, I needed something to give me some positive, engaging ideas for my students. These are ideas that can be modified for any level. Thanks!
Susan – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed it. Will definitely implement the ideas.
Margarita – GALENA PARK ISD (verified owner) –
awesome
Stacy – GROVEPORT MADISON LOCAL (verified owner) –
This wasn’t really applicable to what I teach.
Kristie – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course to learn about how to use books in different ways.
Brenda – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
Although I am not a teacher, this course demonstrates how other resources can help students “Think Outside the Book”.
Ricardo – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was an excellent course.
Magdalena – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
see more connections with math and science
Laurie – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
Teachers will benefit from this training tremendously. There are so many different ways to assist students with reading and have them use their imagination and technology tools also.
Laura – GAHANNA-JEFFERSON CITY (verified owner) –
It was geared more to elementary and I didn’t feel as though I saw many new ideas, but maybe the grade level difference was part of it.
Lorri – RIDGEDALE LOCAL (verified owner) –
Great ideas and new websites.
Austen – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
This course was very engaging and full of resources.