Why Smart Kids Do Dumb Things - Responsive Learning

$20.00

Presenters: Colin Seale
Core Area: Creativity & Instructional Strategies, Planning 1.4, Instruction 2.1, Learning Environment 3.3
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1

What if you could help your students use their unique teenage brains to change the world? Colin Seale, the founder of thinkLaw, believes you can. In this course, Mr. Seale walks you through how to transform the critical thinking dispositions of your students, enabling them to funnel their risk-taking tendencies into opportunities for activism, examine situations and consequences from different perspectives, and develop nuanced thinking.

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SKU TLAW-554 Categories Colin Seale, Creativity & Instructional Strategies|Planning 1.4|Instruction 2.1|Learning Environment 3.3, Esq., General PD, Gifted, Instructional Strategies, OAGC, thinkLaw Tags critical thinking, elementary, General PD, Gifted, giftedness, GT, Instructional Strategies, OAGC Characteristics, ODE competency d, secondary

Description

Adolescents aren’t typically known for their critical thinking skills. But Colin Seale, the founder of thinkLaw, believes you can transform your students’ critical thinking dispositions in order to help them use their unique teenage brains to change the world.

In this course, Mr. Seale will help you do the following:

Examine the developmental reasons why smart kids do dumb things
Explore what this means for you as a teacher
Discover how closing the critical thinking gap can help address this important issue

Mr. Seale walks you through the following strategies for shaping your students’ critical thinking:

Helping students funnel risk-taking tendencies into opportunities for activism
Providing students with opportunities to examine situations and consequences from different perspectives
Enabling students to apply these concepts in different situations

You’ll come away from this course inspired and equipped to help develop a new generation of decision-makers.

Presenter Bio

Colin Seale, Esq. is an education advocate and critical thinking expert who has merged his passion and experience for education, law, and social justice into thinkLaw, an award-winning program that helps educators teach critical thinking through standardsaligned, real-life legal cases and powerful and personalized professional development to help teachers implement engaging Socratic strategies across all grades and subject areas. Colin has been recognized as the 2016 Nevada Governor’s Conference Pitch Competition First Place & People’s Choice Winner, the 2016 Las Vegas National Bar Association Community Service Award Winner, and as a recipient of the ACLU of Nevada’s Community Juvenile Justice Award for thinkLaw’s work in ensuring that critical thinking is no longer a luxury good.

Additional information

Core Area	Creativity & Instructional Strategies, Instruction 2.1, Learning Environment 3.3, Planning 1.4
Hours	1 Hour
Organization	thinkLaw
Grade Level	Elementary, Secondary
Presenter	Colin Seale, Esq.
Course Content	Gifted, Instructional Strategies, General PD, OAGC

282 reviews for Why Smart Kids Do Dumb Things

Rated 4 out of 5

Kealey – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) – June 6, 2022

I enjoyed the presenter. I believe it applied more to older grades.
Rated 5 out of 5

Jerry – WESTFALL LOCAL (verified owner) – June 7, 2022

Enjoyed it. Very thought-provoking.
Rated 5 out of 5

Deborah – RIESEL ISD (verified owner) – June 11, 2022

This course was very informative. It was easy to follow, and the example and scenarios were something that I could relate to as a teacher.
Rated 4 out of 5

Beverly – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) – June 14, 2022

I enjoyed the lesson and was able to take some of the ideas for my elementary students. However, it should have been advertised for secondary teachers, so that elementary teachers can use their hours for instruction more focused for their area of teaching. or the presenter could have used a few simpler examples for younger students to understand.
Rated 4 out of 5

Frankie – HUGHES SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) – June 17, 2022

Very good course
Rated 5 out of 5

Mariza – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – June 21, 2022

Great training!!! Excellent presentation!!!
Rated 5 out of 5

Susan – GROVETON ISD (verified owner) – June 21, 2022

The course offers some strategies to help kids learn to gain the disposition into useful activity.
Rated 5 out of 5

Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – June 23, 2022

Excellent course!
Rated 5 out of 5

Zulema – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – June 25, 2022

Excellent Course!
Rated 5 out of 5

Lorri – GIDDINGS ISD (verified owner) – June 28, 2022

This was a fantastic course that really touch on some methods I had a vague idea about but couldn’t really put into words. The answer I had been looking for was how to engage nuanced thinking. Awesome!