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

Heather – PEARLAND ISD (verified owner) – May 31, 2020

This course is wonderful! It is a good mix of theory and practical strategies.
Rated 5 out of 5

Janice – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner) – May 31, 2020

I liked how it not only showed ways to incorporate situational learning in the classroom but it really caused me to reflect, personally.
Rated 5 out of 5

nora – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – June 1, 2020

interesting and engaging
Rated 5 out of 5

Marylyn – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) – June 1, 2020

Good points to consider
Rated 5 out of 5

Kathleen – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) – June 3, 2020

This was a good course, it made me think of different ways I could present things to get the students to start to practice critical thinking skills.
Rated 4 out of 5

Kari – East Muskingum Local Schools (verified owner) – June 6, 2020

Provides good strategies to help students grow beyond narrow mindedness.
Rated 5 out of 5

Mike – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) – June 8, 2020

This was a good course. I would give it 4 stars. I liked the ideas the presenter had for having young students use their brain for positive actions while it is still developing.
Rated 4 out of 5

Raquel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – June 9, 2020

I enjoyed the presentation and the ideas on helping kids develop their thinking skills; however, I thought we would cover more in depth about why smart kids do dumb things.
Rated 5 out of 5

Nancye – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – June 9, 2020

Very good information.
Rated 5 out of 5

Valerie – RIDGEDALE LOCAL (verified owner) – June 10, 2020

This was a very brief course, and is mostly geared toward middle school and high school students/teachers. It did make me think of how we can help our students develop critical thinking skills to allow them to make better decisions.