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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7 reviews for Why Smart Kids Do Dumb Things

  1. Becky – CRESTVIEW LOCAL – VAN WERT COUNTY (verified owner)

    I like the idea of a whole library of courses available at any time during the school year.

  2. Lily – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner)

    Great ideas

  3. Jean – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner)

    Loved the practical/thought provoking and EASY to implement strategies…great for 8th graders!!!

  4. Sandra – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner)

    Great examples.

  5. Suzanne – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner)

    Lots of real-world examples in a compact presentation

  6. Mary – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner)

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  7. Valarie – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner)

    It was just okay.

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