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. Ariana – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    Really good information

  2. Claudia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner)

    The course was very informative.

  3. Nora – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    Great points of view!!

  4. Rebecca – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner)

    it was good

  5. Marsha – Allen East Local Schools (verified owner)

    Well done!

  6. Cheryl – RIDGEDALE LOCAL (verified owner)

    good course

  7. Elizabeth – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner)

    LOVED this course! Very easy to listen to and yet lots of good information.

  8. Erika – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    Great information!

  9. Amy – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner)

    Good content

  10. Elizabeth – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner)

    I liked that this hit home on a few practical ideas to use with students. I wish it had included a wider variety of ideas to hit more subject areas.

  11. Melinda – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    great

  12. Tabitha – SPRING ISD (verified owner)

    Informative

  13. Lauren – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner)

    Great information, great reminder that kids are kids.

  14. Laurent – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner)

    Excellent

  15. Jacquelyn – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner)

    GOOD

  16. Larry – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner)

    Its Great

  17. Jose – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner)

    It is very informative.

  18. Linda – CONROE ISD (verified owner)

    It is informative and helpful to our kids who tend to need more direction.

  19. Candice – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner)

    Something we all could use

  20. Ana – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    Informative and applicable to all grade levels

  21. Angela – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner)

    super quick to finish, super easy to follow and understand….relatable to real life today

  22. Amy – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner)

    easy to follow alond

  23. Stephanie – Morgan Local Schools (verified owner)

    Very interesting real life situations

  24. Virginia – CLEAR CREEK ISD (verified owner)

    Clear and concise presentation that made me start thinking about perspective, actions and consequences and relativity as it relates to thinking.

  25. Mark – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner)

    This course is well structured and presented.

  26. Michael – SPRING ISD (verified owner)

    The course was helpful

  27. Ana – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    This was a very educational course.

  28. guadalupe – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    It was very interesting how to use current events and turn them into meaningful discussions in the classroom that students can debate on and write about.

  29. Debra – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner)

    5 stars…great info that got me thinking about how to have better conversations within the classroom.

  30. Marcella – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    This course was very helpful. I can use this information when planning my lessons to better suit the needs of my students.

  31. Johanna – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner)

    I found it very intresting.

  32. Jessica – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    Excellent!

  33. Christella – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    Good info!

  34. Juanita – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    good informative and interesting

  35. Beatriz – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    Very interesting!

  36. Kelli – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner)

    Great

  37. Penny – VIDOR ISD (verified owner)

    I like that this was short and to the point. It gave real world examples and didn’t fill the lesson with lots of fluff.

  38. Maria – ALICE ISD (verified owner)

    It was ok.

  39. Antonia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    Inormative

  40. Emily – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner)

    Awesome course

  41. Carolina – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    Very good course I enjoyed it

  42. Kelly – BOLING ISD (verified owner)

    I found it helpful.

  43. Rick – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner)

    This training helps teachers see how to engage students into projects that they will enjoy and will stir thinking and conversation while developing their ability to become citizens who can think through situations to reach supportable answers.

  44. Melissa – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    Interesting information in relation to the brain and youth.

  45. CORINA – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner)

    I think this course is good because it explains on why kids do some of the things they do.

  46. Joann – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner)

    Good course

  47. Jockebeth – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner)

    helpful strategies

  48. Cassandra – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner)

    To the point, loved the examples

  49. Martha – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner)

    Great strategies

  50. Claudia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    Very good course.

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