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.

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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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2770 reviews for Thinking Outside the Book

  1. Gloria – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Opened my eyes to new method of teacheing.

  2. Mico – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –

    Loved the ideas!

  3. Patricia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    helpful

  4. Ludivina – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –

    it is very helpful

  5. Jenny – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    great information

  6. Brianna – REYNOLDSBURG CITY (verified owner) –

    Great!

  7. Priya – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –

    Extremely helpful esp if you teach LA

  8. Olga – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    it is great

  9. Kelly – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –

    This course gave me some new ideas of ways for students to respond to books.

  10. LaToya – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –

    This was a great course.

  11. Arianna – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    This was a very interesting topic, however, not one I can apply just yet.

  12. Amy – CARLISLE LOCAL (verified owner) –

    Some good ideas for intermediate level students.

  13. Abdulkadir – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –

    good

  14. Kimberly – Private Pay (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed learning how to use personal response papers to assist my gifted students in the classroom.

  15. Tanya – TULOSO-MIDWAY ISD (verified owner) –

    The course was very informative. I learned about a few new websites that would be beneficial to my students.

  16. Sara – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed this course as I was able to learn tips and instruction options from a different point of view.

  17. Melissa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    very insightful.

  18. Edna – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    was an excellent informational course

  19. Rosa – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Quite interesting. Thinking beyond the book is something we need to familiarize ourselves in order to assist our children.

  20. Marco – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –

    Great insight on individualized instruction.

  21. Ed – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –

    loved it plan on using several methods

  22. Lilybeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    It was intresting

  23. LEE ANN – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    Interesting ideas on how students can respond to what they have read.

  24. Monica – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    It gives you plenty of ideas for students to work on their own.

  25. Lidia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very helpful course.

  26. Rosario – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    It is interesting

  27. Irene – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –

    It gives you awesome ideas that used technology to engage the learner.

  28. Holly – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –

    Good course, good tools that I will use in adapted ways for the science classroom.

  29. Chris – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    Not too helpful for secondary teacher

  30. Jose – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD – SAN ANTONIO DISTRICT (verified owner) –

    Not only interesting but also formative, because in the next 20 years we need to go outside not inside a classroom to learn

  31. Anna – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    It is great if we had enough and working technology.

  32. Melissa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    very infomative

  33. Karen – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner) –

    Very good ideas for ELA teachers.

  34. Sarah – CARLISLE LOCAL (verified owner) –

    This was a helpful course for gaining knowledge on ways to differentiate.

  35. Kristina – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    good

  36. Amanda – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –

    This course gave me a lot of new ideas for reading groups as well as whole class.

  37. Becky – ZAPATA COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    Interesting, although this would not fall under my teaching subjects since I teach Special Education in the life skills unit.

  38. STEPHANIE A – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    Good for older students.

  39. Rosario S. – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    It was insightful, particularly with the different approaches that can be implemented according to the students’ needs.

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

    This was helpful.

  41. Rocio – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Informative

  42. Lina – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    great

  43. April – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Great idea to drive learning in the clasroom.

  44. Anne – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    I really liked this course, I learned a lot of new strategies.

  45. JESSICA – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –

    it was great

  46. Irma – ZAPATA COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    Informative

  47. Travis – JASPER ISD (verified owner) –

    Liked it. Provided many doable/useful activities for students that would also reduce my workload.

  48. Jennifer – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Very interesting and I like the different activities.

  49. Dana – HILLSBORO ISD (verified owner) –

    I could do it when ever I wanted and have have tons of courses to choose from.

  50. Blanca Nelly – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    informative

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