Thinking Like a Lawyer: A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students

by Colin Seale

Overview

Critical thinking is the essential tool for ensuring that students fulfill their promise. But, in reality, critical thinking is still a luxury good, and students with the greatest potential are too often challenged the least. This bestselling book:

·       Introduces a powerful but practical framework to close the critical thinking gap.

·       Gives teachers the tools and knowledge to teach critical thinking to all students.

·       Empowers students to tackle 21st-century problems.

·       Teaches students how to compete in a rapidly changing global marketplace.

Colin Seale, a teacher-turned-attorney-turned-education-innovator and founder of thinkLaw, uses his unique experience to introduce a wide variety of concrete instructional strategies and examples that teachers can use in all grade levels. Individual chapters address underachievement, the value of nuance, evidence-based reasoning, social-emotional learning, equitable education, and leveraging families to close the critical thinking gap. In addition to offering examples for Math, Science, ELA, and Social Studies, this timely, updated second edition adds a variety of new examples and applications for Physical Education, Fine Arts, Foreign Language, and Career and Technical Education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032742274
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/31/2025
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Colin Seale is an educator, attorney, and critical thinking expert. He founded thinkLaw, an award-winning organization, to help educators leverage inquiry-based instructional strategies that can close the critical thinking gap and ensure they teach and reach all students. Follow Colin on X (formerly Twitter) at @ColinESeale.

Table of Contents

Introduction  Part I: Closing the Critical Thinking Gap  1. The Autobiography of a Recovering Underachiever  2. Defining Critical Thinking  3. The Critical Thinking Gap  Part II: Thinking Like a Lawyer  4. A Critical Thinking Revolution  5. Introduction to thinkLaw  6. Analysis From Multiple Perspectives  7. The Power of Analysis from Multiple Perspectives  8. Mistake Analysis  9. Investigation and Discovery  10. Settlement and Negotiation  11. Competition  Part III: Practical Considerations for a Critical Thinking Revolution  12. Making thinkLaw Work  13. Avoiding Engagement for Engagement’s Sake  14. Critical Thinking: Classroom Management’s Secret Weapon  15. Beyond Test Prep: Hacking the “Big Test”  16. Leveraging Families to Unleash Critical Thinking Potential  Conclusion: Future-Proofing Students with Critical Thinking

Editorial Reviews

What comes through on every page, unmistakably, is Colin Seale's passion that we “simply have to stop leaving genius on the table.” If more students have to look at a question from all sides, work rigorously to discover what is known, learn to analyze mistakes, including the ones they make, and to think how their solutions work in the real world, we certainly would have students equipped for whatever innovations in technology and the nature of work are thrown at them.,Robert C. Trube,Bob on Books, 7/29/20

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