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
Jorge – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great presentation for framing the importance of critical thinking within an engaging context of law studies.
Shanna – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
If you like to analysis both sides of a topic and thinking thru problems this is for you. I enjoyed the discussion about the Chair Case in this course and seeing both sides of the problem this is a great way to teach students how to think of more than one way to solve problems. Very good!
Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great examples of how to use real life cases to promote critical thinking and student engagement.
MARTHA – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Practical ways to implement critical thinking in our classrooms.
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Enjoyed seeing the importance of Critical thinking and ways to incorporate it in any classroom.
Jeannie – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent presentation and explanation on how critical thinking can be applied in a classroom.
Whitnee – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
great – very informative
Kathryn – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
I think all students should take a course or two in Logic!
Maria – SAN PERLITA ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course, the time flew by, that’s how interesting it was.
Theresa – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Good course but too long, information could have been shortened.
Veronica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
informative, it allows to see other perspectives
Amanda – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Good strategies.
Michele – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –
I enjoyed to content and the reminder as to why kids need to work to solve their problems.
Erin – DAYTON CITY (verified owner) –
Interesting connections to the law and critical thinking.
Brian – IRONTON CITY (verified owner) –
eye opening
Sulinda – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting and well presented.
Marcia – GAHANNA-JEFFERSON CITY (verified owner) –
Great information (almost too much 🙂
Melinda – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
Information was interesting and there were a few examples I could take to my classroom but I would like more applicable activities/assignments for my kids.
Sonia – HALLETTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Information was interesting and useful
Stephanie – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I did not enjoy this one as much as others.
Jennifer – FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
This was a great course that got me to think about things in a different perspective. It will be good to get students to think about challenges in a different way as well.
maritza – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent
Claudia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Changes your perspective
Andrea – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was interesting. I’ve been thinking about this exact topic, and this helped to provide insight and solutions. It also provided applicable tools in the classroom.
Sylvia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Informative
patricia – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Packed with information that is applicable in the classroom.
Wendy – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative. Critical thinking is the way to a successful life-long learner.
Jill – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
Pretty good information
Heidi – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
It makes a strong argument for allowing students to delve into problems that may have emotional or fairness characteristics.
Bonnie – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
Good strategies to implement in the classroom.
Christy – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
Good information and ideas!
Stanislas – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
i really enjoyed this course – i found it relevant to teaching, straightforward and succinct, and very interesting.
Maria – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas about how to get students thinking like lawyers and therefore developing their critical thinking skills.
Kevin – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting view and idea on helping our students.
Jose – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
It was informative on how learning needs to be approached from a problem solving direction.
Sonja – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course to help with students use critical thinking skills to solve many problems.
Raul – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting
Paulette – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
Great overview
Paolo – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
Speaker was not clear and the coughing was distracting
Lourdes – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was interesting. It is a good way to teach the students that they are able to learn new ways of thinking and working using skills they probably did not think they had.
John – DAYTON CITY (verified owner) –
I feel that this course was informative and thought provoking.
Steven – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
Pretty straight forward and to the point.
Robbie – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
It was ok.
Becky – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I really like the content of this but the presenter’s voice volume faded in and out.
Diana – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Needs more resources to apply in the classroom.
Janice – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Clearly presented ideas, very engaging and concrete examples.
Thomas – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –
Thinking like a lawyer is a great way to approach critical thinking.
Penney – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –
Provided critical thinking strategies from a law perspective.
Sulinda – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
This was well done and presented in an interesting and thought provoking way.
Robyn – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Gifted students and all students would really enjoy and be motivated to use these critical thinking skills when thinking like a lawyer.