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.
Ricardo – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
I found this course very informative and educational.
Shawnta – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
This course gives great ideas to use in the classroom.
Ana – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course. The presenter was easy to follow and offered good suggestions.
Veronica – FABENS ISD (verified owner) –
I liked that they gave us many examples of taking book readings to other levels. I needed to learn some of these to work with my GT students since I only had a few ideas when I was lesson planning on how to get them going.
Irma – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Liked it
Stephanie – GRANBURY ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas, not only for reading teachers but could certainly be ways to incorporate cross curricular lessons.
Angela – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course and I loved the activity examples.
Melanie – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Great ideas for the classroom.
Christine – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I liked that all the reflection questions were at the end.
Jordan – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
It was good information and helpful for thinking about gifted students.
Sara – TEAYS VALLEY LOCAL (verified owner) –
This is not a course Secondary teachers should take.
Zoe – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Not relevant to secondary education, but gives some good ideas for extention and inquiry.
Laurie – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
I really liked the ideas.
Jenny – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
educational and inspiring!
Debra – Yellow Springs Exempted Village (verified owner) –
Interesting and usable suggestions
Katelyne – VANGUARD ACADEMY (verified owner) –
Readily applicable to different classroom types and teaching styles
Cristina – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
great
Kim – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
great
Marek – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
I very much enjoyed the goals of the presentation. I thoroughly agree with the notion of “letting go” of the classroom reign and allowing students to discover their own path and interests in the literary arena.
Zoey – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
It was very helpful and informative.
Jacquelyn – Private Pay (verified owner) –
much better than district PD
julian – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
This was very informative
Ermelinda – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
It is very helpful to give children ideas on books that can be used.
Teresa – PIQUA CITY (verified owner) –
I would encourage others to take this course to learn more about using various types of activities that would allow each student to express their learning style(s) and explore new ways to “think beyond the book.”
Robin – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful when trying to come up with engaging ideas for students to relate to text. I like these ideas because they are interesting and interactive.
adriana – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
very resourceful information for research
Amy – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I would have loved to have “met” the speakers rather than just hearing voices without any background. However, they did have very good ideas.
Lauren – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the differentiation resources and books suggested.
Jean Ann – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
I’m looking forward to using some of the ideas presented, like the puzzle.
Erin – HUFFMAN ISD (verified owner) –
I don’t think it relates to my content I teach
Madeline – HALLETTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great information!
Kristen – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I like the ideas provided to help students grow.
Elsa – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Good information
Jose – SAN DIEGO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
William – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –
it ok , nothing new
Ana – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great and interesting course
Kendall – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
It covers a good resource.
Jane – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Great ideas to actually apply tomorrow!
Michael – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative.
Leanna – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Kathleen – ARANSAS PASS ISD (verified owner) –
More for middle school and up.
Hanneke – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
The course is definitely aimed for higher achieving students, but there are still some things that are applicable for a gen ed classroom.
Marcela – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
A lot of the information given, I have already seen before and therefore serves as a reminder that the resources and ideas mentioned are good tools to use in the classroom.
Sara – BEXLEY CITY (verified owner) –
It was good— I would appreciate more range of grade level books. Many of the books were for elementary, and while I understand the choice projects could be applied to middle grades— it would be nice to hear some ways in which you use other novels.
Mabi – BEXLEY CITY (verified owner) –
Great course. However, it seems most geared for elementary courses.
Norma – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
good info
Jose Luis – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I learned new instructional strategies that I can use in my classroom.
Karla – PRESIDIO ISD (verified owner) –
It was an interesting topic.
Richard – CHISUM ISD (verified owner) –
It was fast paced but repetitious.
Marlin – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
Helpful information is provided.