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.
Priscilla – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the content of this course. I wish it was longer and more detailed.
Margarita – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
ok
Jerry – MIAMI EAST LOCAL (verified owner) –
Excellent.
Brenda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This session helps remind one to take into account multiple perspectives when making decisions rather than just one’s own.
Crystal – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great way to know about kids and their critical thinking
Ernesto – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Great Presentation and to the point.
Joe – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Very interesting. Gives you something to think about in how you present different scenarios.
Orlando – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
awesome! my favorite course so far, very interesting
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course provides some useful concepts necessary in helping students make better decisions.
Martin – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Good ideas on why students make unwise decisions and how to help them develop nuanced thinking.
Santos A. – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This was extremely relevant to my course objectives. Also, it is a great way to promote critical thinking and social and political involvment.
Carmen – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Helpful and useful information
Natalie – EANES ISD (verified owner) –
The information was good, if a little redundant. It’s worth the hour spent.
Karla – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Love this video.
Sandra – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
I was discouraged to see that this course was really a promotion of activism, rather than a focus on gifted and talented students in the classroom.
Stephanie – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
I liked how compacted this course was with many take-aways I can use!
Ida – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Henry – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent
Suzanne – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
Doesn’t really apply to the title like I thought it would.
Eduardo – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Helpful material.
Lorri – GIDDINGS ISD (verified owner) –
This was a fantastic course that really touch on some methods I had a vague idea about but couldn’t really put into words. The answer I had been looking for was how to engage nuanced thinking. Awesome!
Zulema – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent Course!
Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course!
Susan – GROVETON ISD (verified owner) –
The course offers some strategies to help kids learn to gain the disposition into useful activity.
Mariza – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great training!!! Excellent presentation!!!
Frankie – HUGHES SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Very good course
Beverly – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the lesson and was able to take some of the ideas for my elementary students. However, it should have been advertised for secondary teachers, so that elementary teachers can use their hours for instruction more focused for their area of teaching. or the presenter could have used a few simpler examples for younger students to understand.
Deborah – RIESEL ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative. It was easy to follow, and the example and scenarios were something that I could relate to as a teacher.
Jerry – WESTFALL LOCAL (verified owner) –
Enjoyed it. Very thought-provoking.
Kealey – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the presenter. I believe it applied more to older grades.
Stephanie – CLEAR CREEK ISD (verified owner) –
This course helped to reinforce ideas/thinking that children can and should be taught critical thinking skills at an early age.
Leeann – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was really a very interesting presentation. Even though the presentation seemed very short, I really gained a lot of information from it. I especially like the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and taking a look at it from a different perspective (when is committing a serious crime ever justified?).
Sherri – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Trainings like this help better understand our students and how to help them.
Veronica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Informative
Jason – GROVEPORT MADISON LOCAL (verified owner) –
Great course!
Erin – DAYTON CITY (verified owner) –
Interesting connections with law cases and how it can be used to practice critical thinking.
Tamera – FOUNTAIN 8 (verified owner) –
Presenter give good strategies to develop teen-aged minds; not geared towards younger minds.
Daniel – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Loved the lesson taught in this course.
Arrie – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great way to think about some of our student’s behaviors.
Joanna – NEDERLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Enjoyed.
Colette – BETHEL LOCAL (verified owner) –
informative
VERONICA S – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course offers 3 ways to get students think differently while still developing their brains. I found the examples and explanations insightful
CLAUDIA Y – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
very informative!
CARMEN – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This is an excellent course. It gave me a better perspective on how important it is to help children become more competent in the way they think.
DARLENE M – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It is very important to teach students that they are stakeholders. Students need to be reminded daily and in all subjects that there are consequences based on the choices they make in everything they do.
Jennifer – NEWARK CITY (verified owner) –
This course was not what I thought it would be
Doug – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I guess it was good but it kept stalling. Dont know if it was presentation or internet but hard to follow when I had to keep refreshing to get it going.
Dawn – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
I appreciate that this presentation gave a different perspective on student engagement.
ANGELICA G – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I like how the presenter gave real life scenarios
Sherry – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I found valuable information on turning developmentally predictable risk taking into constructive activities.