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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340 reviews for Why Smart Kids Do Dumb Things

  1. Eduardo – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    Great course. It makes you think how to apply it to your class.

  2. jami – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner)

    I learned a lot from this course. I really liked how much it made me think deep and ask myself how I would apply strategies.

  3. Rosalinda – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    This course was very informative.

  4. Brandie – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner)

    Very interesting information that I have never heard before

  5. Blanca – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    I felt it was a little short. I would have wanted more examples.

  6. Sarah – PROSPER ISD (verified owner)

    I think that it was very interesting.

  7. Carl – EULA ISD (verified owner)

    I think this is essential into helping students, friends, and family think about all points of views and consequences for the choices made.

  8. Wanda – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    Great course

  9. Claudia – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    Interesting

  10. ALLISON – PROSPER ISD (verified owner)

    It was good.

  11. Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    Great course!

  12. Marissa – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    Very informative.

  13. Sabrina – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner)

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

  14. Dora – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    It assists you in how to ask practice questions on real-life scenarios.

  15. Adriana – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

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

  16. Pia – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    Great course!

  17. Angela – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner)

    I which it was geared more towards elementary level. Great for upper grades!

  18. Nora – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner)

    This course was highly informative! The nuanced thinking was very interesting part was very informative!

  19. Merary – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner)

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

  20. Brian – OLENTANGY LOCAL (verified owner)

    good, succinct description of the adolescent brain

  21. Todd – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner)

    This was a great lesson. One that I think would be great to use in the classroom next year.

  22. Jamie – PROSPER ISD (verified owner)

    It was helpful in understanding why smart kids do dumb things.

  23. Kyle – New Lexington City Schools (verified owner)

    Cours is ok. Just a quick introduction to remind students to look at all sides of an issue before reacting to or judging peoples opinions and actions.

  24. Elisa – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    I thought it was very interesting and informative.

  25. Monica – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner)

    As a third grade teacher this was not the best course to use for my elementary students.

  26. Rosa Maria – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    Very useful information! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise!

  27. Isabel – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner)

    Great ibformation.

  28. Adam – ORANGE CITY (verified owner)

    Full of useful information and not too long.

  29. Eric – SOUTH POINT LOCAL (verified owner)

    Great course. Simple,direct,focused on the title..

  30. LAURA – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner)

    short and to the point

  31. Alicia – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner)

    The course is informative and straight to the point.

  32. Judith – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner)

    very informative

  33. Luis – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner)

    Excellent information and very informative.

  34. Graciela – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner)

    I liked the course because what we learned about why smart kids do dumb things, and I take away the importance of communication with students and to have discussions of why and when there should be consequences for ones actions.

  35. Patricia – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner)

    This is a well inform course and recommended it.

  36. Alan – MIAMI EAST LOCAL (verified owner)

    Good.

  37. Tammy – ALVARADO ISD (verified owner)

    There is some useful info in this course.

  38. Sherry – CARROLL ISD (verified owner)

    Some interesting points and ideas to help students develop the ability to think through situations and learn to evaluate information and determine an appropriate course of action.

  39. Kevin – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    Great Course

  40. Denise – FORT STOCKTON ISD (verified owner)

    The sound quality was a little awkward. The information was good and validating.

  41. tina – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner)

    insightful

  42. Veronica – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    This was very common sense and well presented.

  43. melissa – YSLETA ISD (verified owner)

    interesting course

  44. Maria Elena – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    Very informative.

  45. Mari – ALICE ISD (verified owner)

    yes

  46. Senaida – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner)

    This course was helpful

  47. Matthew – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner)

    Excellent, informative presentation on adolescent thinking. Valuable regardless of the content area in which you teach.

  48. Jodi – MIAMI EAST LOCAL (verified owner)

    Real life application

  49. Zondra – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner)

    Excellent strategies on how to improve critical thinking skills in the classroom, especially for teenage brains.

  50. Maribel – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    Yes Will recommend this course to others

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