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

Erica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – June 19, 2020

This course gave me a broader perspective on why smart kids do dumb things. The strategies can be implemented in the classroom to better engage those students who fit that description.
Rated 5 out of 5

Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – June 23, 2020

Interesting course.
Rated 5 out of 5

Keith – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) – June 23, 2020

The Presenter brought up good points about ways to get young people to start “thinking like an adult”, even though many adults still do not think this way. We must instill in young people the importance of their voice. But they must learn to accept that all actions have consequences.
Rated 5 out of 5

Ana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – June 23, 2020

good
Rated 5 out of 5

Lindsey – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) – June 23, 2020

Though provoking
Rated 5 out of 5

Zeniff – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) – June 24, 2020

It’s a good course. It places things into perspective about engaging students in a different way so that they can think about actions and consequences.
Rated 5 out of 5

Jon – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) – June 25, 2020

good
Rated 5 out of 5

Cynthia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) – June 29, 2020

Informative
Rated 5 out of 5

Rosalinda – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – June 29, 2020

I believe it was very informative.
Rated 5 out of 5

Anna – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) – July 2, 2020

This was the best course I have taken because I was engaged the entire time. I also loved how the reflection questions were gradual and not at the very end of the lesson.