Description
What does being a lawyer have to do with teaching? Educator and lawyer Colin Seale says that some of the principles lawyers use in their work can also be used in the classroom to help your students build their critical thinking skills. In the course “Thinking Like a Lawyer – Powerful and Practical Strategies to Teach Critical Thinking to All Students,” educators will discover why critical thinking skills are so important for today’s students and how to cultivate them effectively. Mr. Seale presents teachers with activities and examples to help them build their critical thinking toolboxes.
In this course, you will learn about:
- The definition of critical thinking
- How to prepare your students to be critical thinkers
- Strategies for enhancing critical thinking and student engagement in your classroom
- The Chair Case
Angie – WAYNE TRACE LOCAL (verified owner) –
It opened my eyes to the aspects of critical thinking and gave some practical tools that I could implement in my classroom tomorrow.
James – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
interesting concepts
David – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
There should be slides with the show with the critical thinking questions that Mr. Seale presented so you can have them all in one place.
amy – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I enjoyed using an actual court case to use higher level thinking skills.
Valarie – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
It was okay.
Angela – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great strategies to promote critical thinking in the classroom.
Hector – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Clear and detailed
Vince – River View Local Schools (verified owner) –
Good Stuff
Rodney – River View Local Schools (verified owner) –
Very concise and useful
Mark – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
There is some very good information in this course. Much of the information made perfect sense although I’ve never looked at things that way!
John – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
students need to think critically and out of the box
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and thought-provoking.
Dorothy – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great view on critical thinking!
Adele – EANES ISD (verified owner) –
Good ideas for ways to include critical thinking in any classroom.
Robin – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting on how to apply critical thinking into the classroom
Kelsa – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
I found this course to be extremely helpful and learned more engaging ways to incorporate critical thinking activities within the classroom.
Daniel – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome
Laura – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
interesting info
Jeff – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
I think that this was a very interesting course that gave some good real world strategies.
Anna Maria – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Norma – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Laura – BOLING ISD (verified owner) –
The audio is difficult to hear
Jodi – MIAMI EAST LOCAL (verified owner) –
Applicable to many content areas
Flor – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
IT has great points to help students thin critically
Ernesto – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Nice Strategies to motivate students to look closely at different sides of an issue