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.
Lindsay – KENT CITY (verified owner) –
very informative
Horatio – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Sanjuanita – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It was a great presentation!
yakup – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner) –
It is very useful.
Maureen – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
I like to incorporate tools to help the students think beyond just the written words.
Olga – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very good information
Melissa – BLANCHESTER LOCAL (verified owner) –
Good ideas but I would like to see more detail on them.
Rick – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course. Very helpful
Tracy – River View Local Schools (verified owner) –
I don’t feel that this course benefitted me as much as a secondary teacher as it might have benefitted an elementary teacher.
Jason – LORENA ISD (verified owner) –
Very good ideas for teaching of fiction and informational books.
Lyndsey – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course that shows great resources for responding to books.
Jackie – River View Local Schools (verified owner) –
Great book ideas!
Sandra – SAN DIEGO ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting ideas to do with books!
Lisa – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
lacked images of student examples
sharon – NORDONIA HILLS CITY (verified owner) –
This course rejuvenated my thoughts and ideas on giving students more power in the classroom!! Kids thrive when they are able to explore!
Rebecca – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This was great, but there was NO diversity in the books discusssed for our young black gifted students.
Christina – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Loved the real ideas to use in class and not just the usual theory discussion.
Corey – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I love that this course offers practical ideas to use with gifted students and gives specific books as examples. This was one of the most practical courses I’ve taken. Loved it and highly recommend it!!
Beth – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Several useful resources were presented.
Mary – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Very interesting. One of the most informative
Jonisty – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Very helpful course that will reflect on the help i am able to offer to students.
Christina – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Course gives lots of creative recourses in a short amount of time.
Beth – HUDSON CITY (verified owner) –
Excellent ideas to create differentiation in our classrooms!
Marco – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
It is a great resource of how we can utilize a variety of books to help students with academic success.
Stacy – Ashtabula Area City Schools (verified owner) –
I liked that the ideas presented were things I can use in my classroom immediately.
Brian – IRONTON CITY (verified owner) –
Very helpful
Denise – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great course….gave me lots of ideas and website resources to use
Hatice – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
It is very beneficial
ERIK – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Great stuff!
Jane – DAYTON CITY (verified owner) –
A lot of great ideas
Thomas – TIPP CITY EXEMPTED VILLAGE (verified owner) –
This course is seeming designed for middle school teachers.
Anetra – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Activities that can be used for differentiation
Griselda – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
interesting
Mary – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
This is more for a course that is basically reading comprehension based.
David – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
It’s got some good ideas on projects and products to have students take what they’re getting out of books and expand on it.
SEBASTIAN – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
very interesting
Robin – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course makes you think critically about the discussions and assignments during a book study.
Layla – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
James – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great examples of books!
Adam – NEWARK CITY (verified owner) –
I thought the tactic and techniques outlined in this course were very well put together and extremely usable.
Elva – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
I would recommend
Sten – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
I appreciate the insights.
DALHI – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great information!
Andrea – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Good for older students.
Johanna – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas!!
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very interesting and helpful.
Bharvi – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner) –
Good.
Angie – PIQUA CITY (verified owner) –
This course is great and helpful!
NIVIA – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It’s a good course and good resource to help students think outside the box.
Darla – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
It was useful.