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 5 out of 5

Brian – OLENTANGY LOCAL (verified owner) – May 16, 2023

good, succinct description of the adolescent brain
Rated 5 out of 5

Merary – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) – May 28, 2023

This helped me further a strategy that I already knew about, but will be taking to the next level this upcoming school year!
Rated 5 out of 5

Nora – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) – May 30, 2023

This course was highly informative! The nuanced thinking was very interesting part was very informative!
Rated 3 out of 5

Angela – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) – June 6, 2023

I which it was geared more towards elementary level. Great for upper grades!
Rated 5 out of 5

Pia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – June 12, 2023

Great course!
Rated 5 out of 5

Adriana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – June 13, 2023

Helped me getter a better perspective of how to work with gifted students and their differences.
Rated 5 out of 5

Dora – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – June 20, 2023

It assists you in how to ask practice questions on real-life scenarios.
Rated 4 out of 5

Sabrina – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) – June 26, 2023

This was very informative and explained how we should teach our students to be critical thinkers.
Rated 5 out of 5

Marissa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – June 26, 2023

Very informative.
Rated 5 out of 5

Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – June 30, 2023

Great course!