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. Magda – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –

    I liked it.

  2. Jodi – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –

    Loved the ideas of new resources to use.

  3. Jennifer – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –

    Great!

  4. Travers – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –

    Nice

  5. Jessica – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    It was great and informative!

  6. Sara – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –

    This is a great course to challenge students in the classroom.

  7. Debbie – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –

    Some great creative ideas on helping kids have some freedom in learning and teaching other students about what they might of just read and learned about.

  8. Mayra – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –

    It was a very interesting training. It provided many strategies to motivate and gets students involved.

  9. Annett – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –

    Interesting but more geared for Language teachers

  10. MARTHA – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    too long

  11. Angela – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    There were so many ideas that I hadn’t thought of for differentiation in my classroom. I loved it!

  12. Karen – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner) –

    It has several good activities.

  13. Clarissia – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –

    I loved it! So many ideas to use in the classroom!!

  14. Alicia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great!

  15. Tracey – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Information course!

  16. Daniel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    I really didn’t learn much in this course.

  17. Christopher – Angleton ISD (verified owner) –

    Thank you

  18. Virginia – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner) –

    there was a lot of different ideas for projects for students

  19. Ruth – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –

    This is a good course. I learned how to use books with research.

  20. Josefina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed learning about other ways to allow students to express themselves and learn the content.

  21. Herlinda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    I rate this course a four.

  22. Daniel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    I believe in what was explained to us. I found everything presented very relevant and helpful.

  23. Melissa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Creative ways to get students responding to literature.

  24. Lucas – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    I would recommend this course as a history teacher, even though I feel the most benefit would be for an ELA teacher and classes.

  25. Nora – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    great

  26. Maria – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    3- I think that they should have elaborated on the books talked about.

  27. eva – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    This course was very informative.

  28. Jasmine – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    great resource

  29. Estella – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    This was a refresher course on things that can be used on gt students.

  30. Ruby – PRESIDIO ISD (verified owner) –

    It was very informative

  31. Veronica – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas and very informative.

  32. Monica – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    very informative

  33. Linda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    This course was great. Great ideas and examples

  34. Josefina – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    It provided very good information to included in the classroom.

  35. Leticia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent

  36. Karen – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed the topic. I love literacy-based learning.

  37. Olivia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    Great material and feel reassured that I am doing things correctly.

  38. Brenda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    I found it very helpful.
    4 stars

  39. Juan – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –

    Awesome!

  40. Gia – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –

    I thought this course was very informative.

  41. Jessica – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –

    Very Informative and Great Resources

  42. Nicolas – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –

    How to use books in many different ways

  43. YESENIA – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –

    I really like all the ideas and examples of engaging our Gifted students

  44. Katee – BOLING ISD (verified owner) –

    good if you are an english teacher

  45. Omar – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative!

  46. Elizabeth – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great information that I will definitely be incorporating into my classroom in the near future.

  47. Katrina – VIDOR ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative, I like the use of examples.

  48. Olga – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    It is very informative.

  49. Dee – Springfield City School District (verified owner) –

    I gained ideas that I can implement right away in my classroom and that will be engaging to my students.

  50. Jennifer – Morgan Local Schools (verified owner) –

    Great ideas presented here!

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