Why Smart Kids Do Dumb Things

$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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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.

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400 reviews for Why Smart Kids Do Dumb Things

  1. Michelle – BLANCHESTER LOCAL (verified owner) –

    Short and easy course. Enjoyed the content as well.

  2. Francisco – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Not what I was expecting, but very informative.

  3. Sonia – HALLETTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –

    Very well done presentation. Great concepts and ideas.

  4. Alyssa – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    neat way to help conversations in the classroom.

  5. Anna – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –

    Simple but thought-provoking!

  6. Daisy – HILLSBORO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very smart.

  7. Hannah – BOLING ISD (verified owner) –

    Very relatable, would suggest to all educators.

  8. Allison – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –

    good to refresh your mind.

  9. Ana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Very interesting

  10. Linda – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –

    Good way to see things in other persepective.

  11. Nicodemus – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    The course is short but to the point about developing a students to learn to be open-minded about having different perspectives when talking about issues around the world.

  12. Diane – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –

    Very to the point and informative.

  13. Jose – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Nice information

  14. maritza – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent

  15. Daniel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked. It offered a fresh approach to problem-solving by entering a mental variable where justifying yourself through different perspectives offers a way of defending your dispositions

  16. Michelle – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    excellent

  17. Andrea – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    I really like these critical thinking seminars. It helps to hear different courses from the same presenter on the same general topic because it helps for the ideas to sink in. It makes me feel better equipped to use these ideas in my classroom.

  18. Jennifer – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    Very interesting.

  19. Noemi – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    5 – It was interestingand informative.

  20. Sylvia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    Good information

  21. Adriana – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    good

  22. Eva – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    This presentation was very informative.

  23. Nereyda – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    It opens new perspective on how to approach our students critical thinking.

  24. Jose Alfredo – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    It was good.

  25. zaida – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    ok

  26. Sonya – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    it was very informative

  27. lauren – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    It was interesting.

  28. Dawn – HALLETTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –

    Great training!!

  29. John – Pilot (verified owner) –

    Interesting and thought provoking course.

  30. Lizette – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Important to understand different perspectives. Eye opener!

  31. Nicole – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas and open my mind

  32. Kimberly – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    I love how this presenter uses current events in his presentation. I also like how he brings it to our attention that there are many cause and effects that have put us in the sticky situations that we are in today, and we need the these young minds to start thinking about these things now.

  33. Amy – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    At first, I thought the training was going to be sort of odd and unusable; I teach 3rd graders, after all, and there was a big focus on teenagers. But I loved the strategies of activism, perspectives, and nuanced thinking to help students bridge the gap in applying thinking skills. This was really cool and a new idea for my teaching this year!

  34. ROSA – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    this training is interesting as it helps us teachers understand that we can create students that think for themselves and become stake-holders and problem-solvers.

  35. Kim – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    Interesting course. I liked the critical thinking and ideas on perspectives

  36. Rachel – FAIRBANKS LOCAL (verified owner) –

    good ideas on nuanced thinking

  37. Raul – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent presentation

  38. Christina – INDIAN LAKE LOCAL (verified owner) –

    I like the strategies discussed in this course.

  39. Ashley – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    Very interesting! I feel it is geared to older students but I enjoyed the speaker’s perspective.

  40. Tammy – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    I like the idea of encouraging students to look at different perspectives.

  41. Kira – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    Examples were helpful.

  42. Don – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    Actually a very nice course that was full of good, relevant information dealing with helping students make wiser choices- even if they are “smart” on the outside.

  43. Whitnee – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    I was great

  44. Vanessa – SAN PERLITA ISD (verified owner) –

    great information

  45. Estela – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked the fact that he included a math and science example.

  46. Angela – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –

    Highlighted important ideas about decision making by young people.

  47. Patricia – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –

    I learned about the teenage brain and how I can help develop a student’s thinking process using a variety of strategies.

  48. Adrianna – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative course. Thinking about perspective will help increase student relationships!

  49. Josefina – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very interesting session

  50. Judith – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    The training reminded me of some ways to get my students to participate in discussions.

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