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

Denise – FORT STOCKTON ISD (verified owner) – December 7, 2022

The sound quality was a little awkward. The information was good and validating.
Rated 3 out of 5

Kevin – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – December 16, 2022

Great Course
Rated 3 out of 5

Sherry – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) – December 26, 2022

Some interesting points and ideas to help students develop the ability to think through situations and learn to evaluate information and determine an appropriate course of action.
Rated 4 out of 5

Tammy – ALVARADO ISD (verified owner) – December 28, 2022

There is some useful info in this course.
Rated 5 out of 5

Alan – MIAMI EAST LOCAL (verified owner) – December 28, 2022

Good.
Rated 5 out of 5

Patricia – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) – January 4, 2023

This is a well inform course and recommended it.
Rated 5 out of 5

Graciela – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) – January 6, 2023

I liked the course because what we learned about why smart kids do dumb things, and I take away the importance of communication with students and to have discussions of why and when there should be consequences for ones actions.
Rated 5 out of 5

Luis – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) – January 16, 2023

Excellent information and very informative.
Rated 5 out of 5

Judith – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) – January 20, 2023

very informative
Rated 5 out of 5

Alicia – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) – January 21, 2023

The course is informative and straight to the point.