Thinking Outside the Book

$20.00

Presenter: Sheila Mulbry & Nicole Shannon, Round Rock ISD
Core Area: Creativity & Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1

Do you want your gifted students to deepen their responses to the text they read? One of the most fulfilling moments in a teacher’s day is when the light comes on, a sign that the students are making a deep connection with the material being taught. Teaching students to think outside the book is one of the ways you can empower your students to experience those “aha” moments.

Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.

© Texas Association for the Gifted & Talented, Austin, Texas 2020

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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.

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2816 reviews for Thinking Outside the Book

  1. Grace – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Great Course! I enjoyed the strategies offered. They are very practical and useful.

  2. Melissa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    It was good.

  3. Laurie – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    very informative

  4. Stephanie – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –

    it was very informative. great ideas

  5. Heather – ANDREWS ISD (verified owner) –

    great

  6. Ashley – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –

    Great

  7. Marisa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Wonderful resources

  8. Emily – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas presented for all subject course areas.

  9. Vicki – CHISUM ISD (verified owner) –

    This is geared toward English classes.

  10. Victoria – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –

    Such great ideas for our GT kiddos that I can’t wait to use with my students!

  11. Susan – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas for independent study and allowing the students to create and evaluate. (rigor)

  12. Arianna – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –

    a lot of ideas

  13. GABRIELA – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –

    Lots of good ideas.

  14. Norma – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –

    This course gives great ideas for having students create something other than paper and pencil.

  15. Leigh – CHISUM ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas for choice options for students.

  16. Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Very useful information.

  17. Sophia – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –

    It was informative.

  18. Victoria – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –

    loved it

  19. Emily – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –

    This course gave very practical ideas for differentiating activities within a classroom.

  20. Altheea – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative.

  21. Maria – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    The quality of the video is very poor. Different sound levels. Very low presenter voice. Presenter speaks in a very rushed manner.

    I was able to pick up a few ideas to differentiate instruction in class.

  22. Susana – HPS – WEST TX (verified owner) –

    This is ideal for ELAR courses, find it kind of hard to implement in mathematics.

  23. Jesus – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Middle school appropriate modules where most of my population is Non-GT.

  24. Rachel – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –

    It was helpful.

  25. Karla – AUSTIN ISD (verified owner) –

    I love teaching with books, great presentation

  26. Merve – HPS – CENTRAL TX (verified owner) –

    Thanks !

  27. Antonia – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –

    good information

  28. Cristina – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    good course

  29. Dylan – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    good

  30. Kathleen – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –

    interesting

  31. Laura – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –

    Some great ideas and new things to try.

  32. Robert – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    I love the book selection and the Honey Bee public service message.

  33. Mark – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –

    Most of what was in this course was new to me, so I found it helpful.

  34. Consuelo – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    I thought this course was useful.

  35. Wendy – ALVARADO ISD (verified owner) –

    good examples

  36. Kayla – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked the variety of ideas presented.

  37. Lauren – FT HANCOCK ISD (verified owner) –

    Good

  38. Juan – FABENS ISD (verified owner) –

    I think the course was amazing, because it had many new ideas to use to get the students to thinking.

  39. Traci – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    It was great

  40. Laurie – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Interesting

  41. Marissa – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –

    Engaging and beneficial course.

  42. Susan – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –

    Interesting and smooth.

  43. Jo Ann – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Interesting and useful.

  44. Luis – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    graet

  45. Christian – MANOR ISD (verified owner) –

    I think this was a great way to differentiate for students who might have a higher level of understanding and would like more of a inquisitive challenge.

  46. Samantha – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Amazing information and ideas that will help my students in the future!

  47. Arlene – FORT STOCKTON ISD (verified owner) –

    It was overall great

  48. Yvonne – FORT STOCKTON ISD (verified owner) –

    Great course!

  49. Cassandra – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    good info.

  50. Valarie – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –

    Interesting

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