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.
Chad – NEW BREMEN LOCAL (verified owner) –
This was a great course full of useful ideas.
Luz – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
There is some excellent ideas to help students with reading. I like the idea of writing a letter to the character(s) in the book.
Melanie – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful
Melinda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Really enjoyed this visual course. I liked the entire presentation.
Denise – NORTHERN LOCAL (verified owner) –
I appreciated the book reviews as well as the potential titles to use in my classroom.
Consuelo – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Is a very helpful course
Melody – Pilot (verified owner) –
Some great ideas!
Jay – ANGLETON ISD (verified owner) –
Offers good ideas.
ROMUALDO – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course gives you ideas about how to develop a research
Yolanda – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course help you to think about how to develop a research with students.
Casandra – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
I think that there are many interesting activities that are descibed in the course to do with your class.
John – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I learned new ways to use books in my math classroom. Thank you!
Veronica – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I it great for 4th and 5th graders, will help them learn genre along with with their own creativity.
Tara – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Loved the montages
Stacey – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Informative and gave great ideas of activities to do in the classroom .
Rebecca – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
The ideas were really captivating. However, perhaps this course is more geared for upper grades not lower grades? I like they gave specific book examples with the actual showing of how students used the resources for personal responses to research presentations.
Kevin – HILLSBORO ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for creating “student choice.”
Abraham – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
It is a very good course to get ideas on how to implement students thinking outside the box.
Brittney – ANGLETON ISD (verified owner) –
This was good, and I am taking something back to my own classroom. However, it is mostly geared toward higher grades….possibly 3rd grade and up.
Reyes – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I love all the ideas on creative responses.
Britney – COLUMBIA-BRAZORIA ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.
Jennifer – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Loved it!
Elizabeth – NORTHRIDGE LOCAL (verified owner) –
There were some good ideas presented in this course. There was a bit too much about the ostriches.
Betsy – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great toolbox of ideas to be implemented with all students.
Delma – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It is very important teachers understand that students are different and their learning need to be differentiated.
Pete – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
Informative.
Anita – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed learning about the research part and how to think outside the box .
Katherine – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
Great course.
Sandra – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This is great for a reading and/or social studies class but is a little difficult to utilize this method in a math class
Lynda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This was a good course with special focus on reading.
Joseph – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and helpful for insider knowledge!
Nora – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course had a lot of information with a lot of great ideas to use in class.
Crespin – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
its ok
Russell – EULA ISD (verified owner) –
I really like all the activities that you could implement in your classroom with the different Think Out of the Box book ideas.
Annalee – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
it was great
Mary – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Good course
Viviana – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Thank you
Michael – GIDDINGS ISD (verified owner) –
It has some outstanding ideas for differentiation.
Katie – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This was fun, lots of great ideas for flexibility.
Catherine – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful with differentiation of novels but I was not prepared to discuss my book choices at this moment.
Tarah – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Laura – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
very resourceful
leticia – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
I liked it kept you hooked and even though there were 62 slides they were short
Ana – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
Very long.
Jennifer – COLUMBIA-BRAZORIA ISD (verified owner) –
good ideas to use
Wendy – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
very informative
Cory – FAIRBANKS LOCAL (verified owner) –
helpful!
Abigail – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.
Lucia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
It’s more geared for upper grades.
Andrea – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great!