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.
Jennifer – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
informative
Elizette – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Great Course, very informative
Kristy – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
it was good
Myda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Yaneli – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Krystal – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
great presentation
Annette – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This course gave me websites, book titles, and examples of lessons that I can implement in my classroom.
Lorenia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
The presenter shared different options that allowed students to work on their study of interest using originality and creativity
Gloria – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Good ideas
Laura – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
interesting
Gabriel – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Good dose of information but I was expecting more activity ideas.
Dina – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great presentation
Mary Ann Frances – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
informative
Clemencia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very informational
Paula – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
The quiz was insulting. However the course was good.
Christina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful and insightful
Jacqueline – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
I got some really good ideas from this course.
vilma – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This was very informative course.
Gloria – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
easy to understand and engaging
Travis – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent.
Nancy – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Elias – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
this was a great course!
Roxanne – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful to me in teacher my gifted students as well as my other students
Irma – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great information!
Deisy – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Love all the ideas and websites shared!
Blanca – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Extremely well organized ideas that can be implemented into our classroom.
Cristina – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This is excellent it should be recommended to all 4th grade teachers.
Linda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Get course… highly recommend!
Ricci – WODEN ISD (verified owner) –
all
Daniel – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I really liked it.
Marta – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Short and sweet as well as loaded with great suggestions.
Linda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
5 It was a very good workshop
Jeremy – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed learning about the different tools.
nilda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great course.
Danielle – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Great information with real ideas that can be implemented in the classroom
Nannette – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Good resources
raul – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Insightful to using tools available to mostly all teachers.
Eliza – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I liked it because it is an interesting spin on what we already do; true differentiation
Robert – WODEN ISD (verified owner) –
I believe a lot of useful information is missing or left out. Some of the ideas presented are confusing as a result of this.
Patty – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
excellent
Fabiola – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I think is important to differentiate the instruction and let the students to work independently.
Francisco – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Useful tip for keeping kids engaged
Kelly – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Good ideas but I would recommend this class for high 3rd graders and up.
Lilia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great options given to enhance student’s creativity
Memrey – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
It was broken into too many short segments.
Yvette – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This was an interesting course on selecting certain books that would help students differentiate higher order activities for students.
Susan – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for teaching and differentiating for reading.
Stephanie – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It was quick and to the point with lots of examples.
Angel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Well-designed course.
Margaret – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great course that offers easy to implement lessons.