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.
Jason – Huber Heights City (verified owner) –
Excellent gifted PD opportunity!
Kimberly – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course.
Carol – DRISCOLL ISD (verified owner) –
It was good. Especially if you are a intermediate teacher.
Belinda – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
This course has amazing ideas!
Linda – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Great suggestions for lessons!
Kelli – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This is awesome!! Very helpful in creating lessons for higher order thinking!
Megan – PIQUA CITY (verified owner) –
I enjoy hearing ideas that are directly applicable to the courses that I teach, therefore this was a great course!
Catherine – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting ideas for easy differentiation!
Abigail – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course ! The information provided is informative .
Sarah – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Love that this has practical and easy to implement ideas for engagement!
Leslie – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Good information.
Jon – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I think the strategies seem age specific.
Adrian – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –
Very informative!
Shelly – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This course had a lot of ideas that I can implement right away!!
Stefanie – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
This has been the best yet. I love all the great ideas.
Patti – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I would like this better if I taught Language Arts.
Iris – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Danielle – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
This course gave great ideas to “Think outside the book”, I am excited to bring these ideas into my classroom.
April – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Good information
Kamryn – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
I LOVED THIS COURSE. It contains actual examples of differentiation you can use in the classroom.
Kathryn – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Fun ideas- you can implement tomorrow!
Amanda – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting ideas for themes to implement in the classroom.
Nicole – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
It had some useful ideas for differentiating for gifted students in ELA.
Teri – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
good suggestions offered
Julia – BLANCHESTER LOCAL (verified owner) –
It was very informative and allowed for some good ideas to get kids out of books, and into more project based learning opportunities.
Janice – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
lots of ideas to foster new ideas
Ben – Logan-Hocking Local Schools (verified owner) –
It was good to think about the topic.
Janine – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course provides some great ideas.
Mabel – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I learned how to use a different way to help students think outside the box through book responses.
Reid – Prince George County Public Schools (verified owner) –
Lot of good ideas on how to complete more projects for books.
Ilene – SAN DIEGO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative. Especially for teachers new to GT
Amy – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for reading teachers
Molly – HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
Great ideas on helping students write in the classroom.
Lynda – FLORENCE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the new ideas.
Maritza – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed learning about different methods/techniques that would help students research a topic that they are working on.
Hannah – OLENTANGY LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course was focused on younger grades.
Juanita – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful and very informative!
Kelly – NORDONIA HILLS CITY (verified owner) –
It provided good ideas.
Adrienne – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Jessica – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome
Sharay – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I like the ideas suggested for 4th grade students to complete more research projects on their own.
Amanda – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the differentiation techniques used.
Virginia – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I like the choices this course gave for students to complete when reading a book.
Anette – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I love it.
DERRICK ANTOINE – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I like that students have the opportunity to do activities that makes them think and how it might feel to be in someone else’s shoes.
Allyson – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Informative!
Emily – FORT BEND ISD (verified owner) –
Great resources and strategies. Would like to have more primary grade examples.
Michael – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
very good course
ESTHER A – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Very great ideas.
Rosanne – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
informative