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.
Erin – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
I loved it!
Antonia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
good
Lori – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
It had some helpful ideas that could be used in the classroom.
SanJuanita – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great
Stephanie – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I love the ideas presented in this course. Lots of ideas to use in the classroom.
Sandra – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
I love this take on different ways for students to display their thinking and learning.
Chris – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
I liked these different ideas. I felt like they were not necessarily geared to a high school science classroom, but I did get some good ideas.
Isabel – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
Great information
Maikely – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was interesting and had great ideas for older students.
Matthew – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
Like the course. Gives you fun and great ideas for reserch.
Leslie – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.
Alissa – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting and gave me knew ideas for books to implement in the classroom.
Mary – DRISCOLL ISD (verified owner) –
very good ideas for reading content areas
Yvonne – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I really like this course. It gives you a lot of examples to use.
Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great
Shelia – NAVARRO ISD (verified owner) –
Information is presented very quickly, but it is all good!
Thelma – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
somewhat boring
Steven – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting.
Virginia – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
This was informative
Vicki – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
It was nice to be able to work in segments, but I would rather be live in a group to discuss the ideas with other teachers.
Monica – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
i like it
Karen – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
I appreciate the information , I enjoy thinking out of the box.
susan – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Jennifer – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
This had tons of great ideas and resources.
Alexandra – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
It was good.
Jodie – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This is an excellent course that ignites creativity!
Sarah – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Thought it had some good ideas to implement, but didn’t feel it really led to change.
Amy – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great, easy to implement ideas. Would have liked to see a few more examples of student work for us visual learners!
Patricia – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
very informative and loved thinking outside the book.
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was informative.
Nate – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
There were a lot of great strategies to apply in my classroom.
Rosa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course helps truly THINK OUTSIDE the BOOK! The ideas are novel and very engaging while also integrating technology and personal reflection about student learning abilities.
Maria I – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The information shared about differentiating instruction was very helpful.
Cynthia – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
I really liked all of the examples given.
Bobby – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Great course and ideas to help change up the format of your class from a traditional classroom to a student lead classroom.
Henry – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent
Darian – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Jennifer – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
great ideas to get students to connect to books.
Sara – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course and will use all the different activities/strategies shown in this course!
Stephanie – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
Very good lesson ideas that will be easy to implement.
Karen – NEDERLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I like information about all the books
Kristen – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
It was informative.
Janet – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
This would help on a smaller scale in our class
Rajeania – NAVARRO ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Leslie – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas on how to incorporate these ideas in your classroom.
natalie – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
great
Shuree – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very interesting and I plan to use some strategies used to encourage my students to think outside the box and use their independent thinking.
Whitney – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
It was good.
Ana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great information.
Sherri – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed learning about the new tools and technologies that we can use to get away from the textbooks. I love working in technology in responsible ways for a purpose with my students.