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.
Kelly – ORANGE CITY (verified owner) –
Did not provide enough ideas for high school.
Zachry – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
This is fantastic!
Amy – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas that can be easily implemented.
Brandon – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
I think that it would have been nice to have less breadth and more depth on just a couple of the topics discussed, providing more detail on implementation.
Patricia – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great course with many literature connections.
Karin – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –
It was good
Kathy – IRONTON CITY (verified owner) –
It was informative
Sergio – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Tabitha – PIQUA CITY (verified owner) –
I’m sure this would be great for elementary teachers. The label on this included secondary, and I think that label needs to be removed – it is not really relevant for secondary teachers.
Lisa – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting info give in a precise way.
Pearl – FABENS ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Jeanette – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
I really appreciated the different ideas it gave to do with our GT and high students.
Susan – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –
This course gave me new ideas of things I can use to help my students be better thinkers. Hopefully it will help them understand we do not all think the same and everyone’s ideas are ok.
Rachel – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
This was great!
Angela – PIQUA CITY (verified owner) –
This course included some great web and book resources to extend reading beyond just answering comprehension questions and class discussions. I would have liked the examples given to have had a suggestion for which grade level they would be appropriate for.
Erin – DAYTON CITY (verified owner) –
I like the suggestions on a variety of books.
Travis – Coshocton City Schools (verified owner) –
ok
Deanna – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –
I like the strategies and feel they are something that I could actually use in my class.
Kristi – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –
It was informative.
Cynthia – FABENS ISD (verified owner) –
I really liked the information presented. I found it useful and creative.
Kathy – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I found the course informative and helpful to my teaching.
Tim – GROVEPORT MADISON LOCAL (verified owner) –
It was amazing.
Kimberly – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Be sure to be ELA focused.
Shelley – Coshocton City Schools (verified owner) –
I found the ideas presented to use with books helpful.
Melissa – BETHEL LOCAL (verified owner) –
It was helpful and gave me new ideas!
Guadalupe – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
It gives good ideas on what you can do in your classroom.
Samuel – MANOR ISD (verified owner) –
Helpful information.
Haydee – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
informative lesson.
Teresita – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It helps especially for those of us that have been teaching a while 🙂
Shannon – HUNTSVILLE ISD – TEXAS ONLINE PREP (verified owner) –
This was a great course with ideas on how to differentiate lessons for gifted learners.
Rosa – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Yes this course was interesting.
Ginny – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
This was a good refresher course to things I already do. It gave me more ideas to use.
Erin – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the different ideas that they talked about and how they centered around different books.
Ryan – CARLISLE LOCAL (verified owner) –
Excellent
James – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome!!!
Bennie – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great work.
Marsha – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative & motivating.
David – Private Pay (verified owner) –
The course was good. I like hearing about teaching reading. There were some good ideas.
Amy – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
This course gives a list of interesting project ideas.
Lynsie – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
The course itself is helpful but not very engaging
Sarah – IRONTON CITY (verified owner) –
This has been my favorite course yet!
Marlina – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It was good.
Rebecca – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
helpful and insightful
Jazmin – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course gives a lot of ideas to use in class, not only with GT students but the whole class in general.
Denise – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas
Rachel – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Kevin – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Good information
Thomas – Springfield City School District (verified owner) –
Course is a great tool as an extension to developing independent thinkers.
Andrea – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
It was informational.
CONSUELO – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course it gave me great ideas to think Outside the Box. Every Mystery introduced was explained thoroughly and with examples and books you can use to carry it through in your classroom.