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.
Marcella – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This is a very helpful course
Diana – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course.
THERESA – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
Practical and well presented
Allison – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
This course gives new ideas that kids can use in the classroom to explore books and show what they have learned.
Dana – INDIAN LAKE LOCAL (verified owner) –
Easy to implement activities that students will enjoy.
Rudi – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Good
Jody – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
good
Ruth – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Good!
Mirna – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Good course. Loved the ideas presented for differentiation.
Gwendelen – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas! I teach on a PreK-2 campus and this seemed more geared for upper elementary and higher, but the activities could be modeled for younger students and done as whole group lessons.
Janet – Pilot (verified owner) –
There are some good resources and project ideas.
Derek – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Good info and useful strategies for any classroom.
Graciela – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It is very interesting and you can really learn more about teaching different students with different abilities.
Angela Cristina – ZAPATA COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful.
Terri – VIDOR ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting
Kari – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Like it. I will use these ideas.
Olga – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
great
Morgan – New Lexington City Schools (verified owner) –
I like the ideas presented.
Emily – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
I thought this had some great ideas.
SANJUANA – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It’s a great course because it gives a variety of differentiation forms to use as well as literature to accompany the projects.
Melissa – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
great if you are an english teacher
DANIEL – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It is a little too long.
BLANCA E – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Course is very well explained and provides a variety of Activities to respond to books read in class.
Santos A. – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the suggestions about ways to get students to be creative and think beyond general knowledge questions.
Carmen – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Good, but doesn’t really fit areas other than language arts.
Stephanie – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The activities seem to apply to any book or article you read in your in your class.
John – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner) –
it was great.
Damaris – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Good ideas
Terra – NEDERLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Melissa – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Activities are very interesting
Emanuel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful because it gave me tips on what books to use and how to integrate them.
Hilda E. – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting information.
Rhonda – RSU 22 (verified owner) –
very informal
Vicki – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
I liked it. There are some good ideas, but most are for not geared for secondary.
Amelia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting!
Nicole – TULOSO-MIDWAY ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed all of the examples the presenter provided.
Vida – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD – SAN ANTONIO DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course provides new ideas on teaching and instructional delivery for students
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was straight and to the point! Loved the visuals!
Kent – VALLEY VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
Was concise and useful.
Ralph – HILLSBORO ISD (verified owner) –
Some useful ideas in the course as it fits in my class.
Norma – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very good course overall. It introduces the teacher to different learning techniques and/or strategies to implement in the classroom for the diverse student learner.
Ricardo – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Highly recommend it!
Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This is course is good.
Mike – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
Ok if you are a teacher of a class that reads books.
Elsa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Really interesting! Great ideas for differentiation projects.
Tammie – East Muskingum Local Schools (verified owner) –
There are several great ideas but definitely geared more for 5th grade and up.
Terri – East Muskingum Local Schools (verified owner) –
Good ideas for personal response papers and research reports.
Erin – Morgan Local Schools (verified owner) –
This course was wonderful! It is filled with useful ideas on how to include more differentiation into the classroom and into students’ reading of books. The ideas presented in this course are appropriate and applicable to my classroom!
jose – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD – SAN ANTONIO DISTRICT (verified owner) –
excellent
Adriana – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
good ideas