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. Rhonda – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner)

    good pd

  2. 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.

  3. Lily – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner)

    Great ideas

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

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

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

    Great examples.

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

    Lots of real-world examples in a compact presentation

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

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

    It was just okay.

  9. Angela – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner)

    I learned a lot of interesting and surprising facts about why some smart kids do dumb things. Very insightful.

  10. Shelly – River View Local Schools (verified owner)

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  11. Elonna – Region 17 (verified owner)

    I found it very helpful! It offered very good examples about how to help students think about and make decisions.

  12. Marcela – WESLACO ISD (verified owner)

    I really enjoyed the course because the presenter was very informative and wasn’t hard to follow.

  13. John – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    Allows us to understand more thoroughly how the smarter students think and react to different situations!

  14. Elizabeth – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner)

    excellent

  15. Mabi – Bexley City Schools (verified owner)

    Excellent presentation!!!

  16. Javier – EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD (verified owner)

    This was a very informative course

  17. Vince – River View Local Schools (verified owner)

    Short and to the point

  18. Jennifer – EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD (verified owner)

    It was great

  19. Julissa – EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD (verified owner)

    Very informative

  20. Mayra – EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD (verified owner)

    Very well delivered.

  21. patricia – EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD (verified owner)

    helpful information

  22. Norma – EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD (verified owner)

    Course was informative.

  23. Veronica – EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD (verified owner)

    excellent

  24. Mona L – EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD (verified owner)

    very good information

  25. Mary Frances – EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD (verified owner)

    Great information.

  26. Dionicia – EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD (verified owner)

    great course

  27. Maria – EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD (verified owner)

    Good course.

  28. Elizabeth – EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD (verified owner)

    Enjoyed the presentation!

  29. Maria – EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD (verified owner)

    This presentation was very informative.

  30. Ruben – EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD (verified owner)

    Easy to follow.

  31. Melissa – EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD (verified owner)

    Great course!

  32. Abbey – MARION CITY (verified owner)

    Good info

  33. Edna – WESLACO ISD (verified owner)

    Great course and very interesting topic.

  34. Verona – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner)

    Good ideas could have had more examples

  35. Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    Great presentation! Very informative!

  36. Jan – WODEN ISD (verified owner)

    good stuff

  37. Christian – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    This course is a great overview of the adolescent thought process, nuanced thinking, and how to develop better thinking skills in teenage students.

  38. Claudia – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    Very informative

  39. Francisco – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    Excellent course!

  40. Ernestina – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    Very informative.

  41. Vickie – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner)

    Learned something very new.

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