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.
Ita – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
It’s a good course. very recommendable for English subject.
Lina – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Sarah – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
It was good.
Laura – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
I really think it had a lot of great ideas… maybe a bit more geared to older kids.
RAFAELA – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
great
Aaron – DAWSON-BRYANT LOCAL (verified owner) –
As math teacher it wasn’t as relevant to me.
Ashley – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
I got some great tools and ideas from this course!
Rebecca – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I like the structure and examples but it was hard to fit in the Biology classroom.
Carisa – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –
I could use everything discussed in Thinking Outside the Book in my classroom.
Daniel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Loved it, some of the websites I want to use already.
Ida – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
It had good ideas.
Tyrone – FAIRBANKS LOCAL (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the creative ideas offered to help all students take part in student centered/student driven learning.
Luis – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and helpful.
Jose – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great review of blooms taxonomy.
Marisol – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed, I loved the ideas that were actually implemented in a real life classroom. Thank you so much for sharing.
Grelsm – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.
Esmeralda – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Good information
Jennifer – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –
Useful information
Francisco – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
informative
Kevin – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great
Rosalinda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
The course offered some great activities to use with students.
Michelle – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Great for reading and writing
Michelle – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Great for reading and writing
Pamela – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
we can’t do any of these things in our district
Denise – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –
Great ideas to incorporate in the classroom!
Leonardo – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Good stuff.
Lisa – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –
I like listening to other teachers because I can always adjust their techniques into my classroom too.
Tonya – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Thorough
Hanna – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –
This was an awesome course!
Kelsie – NORTHRIDGE LOCAL (verified owner) –
Overall, this course did not provide many new ideas for my teaching.
Amy – NORTHRIDGE LOCAL (verified owner) –
I thought this course was helpful in thinking of other activities to engage students.
Sara – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
good ideas
Carrie – NORTHRIDGE LOCAL (verified owner) –
I think that the course focuses on fiction reading, but many of the ideas could be applied to non-fiction reading, too. Many of the ideas require the students to relate the reading to their own experiences, which is very important in high school (‘why do we have to know this?”)
Alicia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great information. well align
Sandra – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
good
David – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course is geared toward young students and not high schoolers, more specifically younger students studying ELA. As a teacher of senior and college level sciences it is completely irrelevant.
Ruben – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Excellent presentation plenty of great suggestions.
rosa – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative.
Lorena – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –
The video was very insightful and interesting.
Sandra – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –
I liked the creative ideas given in this video. The take-aways of things we can do in the classroom are creative and fun.
Rosario – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
It was very good
John – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Thought it was about something different
Bradley – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
great
Bryan – BLANCHESTER LOCAL (verified owner) –
ok
Monica – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Celia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This is a good course which gives you different ideas you can use in reading.
Maria – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
good information
Lily – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Great resources
RAY – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It was okay
Christopher – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Awesome!!!