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.

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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. Rosa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    It was a good course.

  2. Karen – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    I like this course. I has given me ideas I can even use in the math classroom.

  3. Laurie – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –

    I like the format of this course. The presenter gives great book ideas.

  4. Sherrita – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –

    It was very short and to the point. I enjoyed the information presented.

  5. Katy – BEAVERCREEK CITY (verified owner) –

    The description includes secondary, but this is mostly applicable to primary in my opinion.

  6. Andrea – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –

    I found this course informative.

  7. Pam – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    This is helpful for research.

  8. Michelle – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas

  9. Gayle – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    It was useful

  10. Byrklin – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –

    I loved learning about thinking outside of the book.

  11. Christina – INDIAN LAKE LOCAL (verified owner) –

    This course provided good ideas that I can use in the classroom.

  12. Brooke – HUGHES SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed how the presenter showed actual examples of how to go beyond the book and have students create products to show their learning.

  13. Michelle – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –

    This course provides great ideas of assessing students outside of the more traditional ways. This allows them more creative responsibility and in charge of their learning.

  14. Catherine – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas!

  15. Ronna – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    Lots of great ideas here for extending beyond the book when reading.

  16. Judy – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    great

  17. Mimi – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    This was great! I liked all the resources that were given and how it was used in the classroom.

  18. Liliana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Very Informative

  19. Jennifer – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –

    I love these ideas. They are quite specific to certain books though.

  20. Ryan – BLANCHESTER LOCAL (verified owner) –

    This is mostly geared toward Reading/Language Arts classes, but you can definitely incorporate other subjects.

  21. Peggy – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –

    The course gave many ideas of some projects for the children to do.

  22. Lindsay – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    It gives some great ideas for kids older PK and K.

  23. Christy – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    Great course

  24. Nora – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –

    able to help my students more.

  25. Amanda – NORDONIA HILLS CITY (verified owner) –

    Great ideas that I can implement right away.

  26. Norma – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    The training was interesting.

  27. Denise – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    Great resource.

  28. Janna – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –

    specific examples of what you can take back to your classroom

  29. Ashley – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    I love the ideas!

  30. Stacy – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    I thought this course provided good, usable ideas that could be adjusted for different ages.

  31. John – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –

    great ideas. as always, how can I make it into math? history? science? etc?

  32. Anna – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    Thank you for the varied activities listed and explained.

  33. Linda – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    This is a great course! It is more geared for english rather than math, but I still got knowledge that I will bring back to my classroom and utilize!

  34. Analise – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –

    Great, fresh ideas I can use in the classroom.

  35. Patricia D. – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –

    I really enjoyed the ideas in this training video.

  36. Ruth – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –

    I will tell other about http://www.tagxedo.com for student to use.

  37. Valarie – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –

    Great course

  38. Marie – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was helpful. I love the information that was given with several examples and ideas that can actually be used in my classroom. I liked the supported research behind the ideas.

  39. Susan – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    I love all of the ideas in this presentation! Everything can be used in whatever grade level you teach / whatever level of child you teach. There was such a variety of ideas and I loved them all!

  40. Leah – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    Great Info.

  41. Natalie – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –

    Many great ideas presented to take students beyond the book.

  42. Tori – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas!!

  43. Chris – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas.

  44. Angela – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    great

  45. Rebecca – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great

  46. Whitney – HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –

    Good ideas for teachers.

  47. Rebecca – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very useful!

  48. Stephanie – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed it.

  49. Elsa – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –

    Good

  50. Sugey – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    It is great

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