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.
Lisa – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was interesting.
Nora – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
good
Christine – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner) –
I think this course was helpful and will use some of the books mentioned in this training.
Amber – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Great ideas.
Dett – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
It was an amazing course. It gave me ideas of how to get students to think outside the box
Janie – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome resources
Ashley – WALLER ISD (verified owner) –
Easy to navigate
Kelly – CARLISLE LOCAL (verified owner) –
Good info
Mike – CARLISLE LOCAL (verified owner) –
Good stuff.
Grant – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
It was okay. I just didn’t walk away super excited after this presentation.
Jennifer – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This was an interesting course in giving you ideas of involving your students differently in what you are studying.
Billie – MEDINA VALLEY ISD (verified owner) –
good review
Eduardo – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course is giving me new ideas to use in the classroom that should help kids invest more in their own learning
Elizabeth – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Danette – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome ideas to use to evaluate a student’s understanding of what he/she read
Erika – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Love this easy ways to Think Outside the Book.
Stephanie – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
Good one!
melinda – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed it.
Robert – MEDINA VALLEY ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome
Renee – MEDINA VALLEY ISD (verified owner) –
Good layout… speaker could be a bit louder for me
Devin – MEDINA VALLEY ISD (verified owner) –
informative
Callie – MEDINA VALLEY ISD (verified owner) –
helpful
Cristina – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to implement.
Sandra – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
It has some really good instructional strategies for gifted and talented learners.
Renee – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
I like the different options given in this course.
Irasema – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great extended strategies to Think Outside the Book.
Maria – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This had great strategies to use in the classroom with the students that at an advanced level.
Joshua – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
I would really have appreciated something in the course description that emphasized the elementary-grades orientation of the course.
Irma – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Is a very good course
Carrie – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
great info
Judith – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Thinking Outside the Book is very interesting with great ideas for activities.
Kimberly – STOCKDALE ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and helpful!
Angie – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
I was really informative
Stephanie – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Teresa – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
it was very informative
kevin – CARLISLE LOCAL (verified owner) –
THis course was very helpful
Deidra – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
Unique
Veronica – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I love online courses
Maria – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
relevant to differentiating
Misty – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of good ideas.
Lourdes – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Interesting
Maria – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave great ideas that teachers could implement in their lesson plans.
Shantelle – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I was good, but nothing new.
Esmeralda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
5 stars: good and useful information to better differentiate instruction,
Paulina – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was beneficial in that it provided various options to introduce ways to respond to a novel. Students would definitely find these engaging.
Gloria – RUNGE ISD (verified owner) –
confusing for me
Janice – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
This course enabled me to see different ways to involve the student in their learning.
Robert – WODEN ISD (verified owner) –
I believe this course presents a number of useful ideas for the classroom, and I plan on implementing several of them in my English I and Reading Improvement classes.
Julie – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
great ideas!
Angela – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas! One of my focuses this year is enrichment for higher-level students and these are very helpful.