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.
Jose – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
good course
Jessica – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
great information from this course
Lydia – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
It was helpful and gave alot of ideas to use in stretching students thinking about reading and making it more real world for them. Will try some of these ideas.
Kelly – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This offers practical, easy to implement ideas.
Aida – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
it’s fine
Enisa – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
Great content! Highly recommend it!
Melody – HPS – WEST TX (verified owner) –
strongly agree with a lot the strategies given in this training.
Karen – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting
Nathanael – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Helpful with what the narrator discussed.
Fallon – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Annette – HILLSBORO ISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting.
Deirdre – HILLSBORO ISD (verified owner) –
I liked it.
Rumiana – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Very Good
EDA – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
It was beneficial
Chad – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
This was a so-so course, but it did contain some good ideas.
Patricia – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
activities
Amanda – HILLSBORO ISD (verified owner) –
This course is helpful at providing differentiated activities to use in the classroom.
Donna – HILLSBORO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful in helping me to assist students in “thinking outside the book”.
Juan – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
great websites that can help students
Michelle – BLANCHESTER LOCAL (verified owner) –
It was super easy. Other classes have taught more.
Rebecca – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –
It’s very much like other courses that we’ve already taken.
Esteban – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the course. It was helpful, relevant, and insightful.
Susanna – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful !!
Charlene – FABENS ISD (verified owner) –
I really liked this course it was very informative.
Alicia – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –
The presenters provided ample information on books and webpages we can use.
Genevieve – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
It was great for new teachers.
Raymond – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful
sania – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
Great Course.
Melanie – HILLSBORO ISD (verified owner) –
great
Hector – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I found it interesting.
Jose – TULOSO-MIDWAY ISD (verified owner) –
I plan to use some applicable aspects of “Thinking Outside the Box.”
Patricia – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the course. It is geared mainly for ELA teachers
David – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent
Marissa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great!
MARIA LUISA – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed it! To the point!
Hugo – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
Great!
Gloria – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Melissa – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
It was very lengthy, but the information was great. I wish it was broken down so that it can be at least two separate sessions.
Lorena – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It is not as simple too implement these strategies in the math classroom
Monica – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I think this is great for RLA and elementary teachers. However, I think it needs to be adjusted for secondary teachers that are subject based.
monique – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
great
Aldo – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –
Good ideas are presented logically.
Sylvia – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
Excellent
Sandra – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
It’s informative
Olga – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
good
chasity – NEDERLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Geared for older elementary
Ida – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course. It was very helpful.
Priscilla – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –
excellent info on differentiation
Gisela – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Different ideas outside the books
Veronica – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I read a different book with my students every six weeks. My students love it and so do I. This course gave me a few more ideas I can use with my students.