Six Hat Thinking Damian Groark CEO Challenging Learning
Problems Emotions Helplessness Confusion
Problems Problems Problems How do we think? How do we solve them?
Full Colour Thinking After lunch two children have been fighting and both want you to listen to their point of view you want the class to solve the problem on the board. One of the children can’t read the problem and wants help. Lucy throws up A child falls of his chair and a dog is loose on the playground. The secretary comes in to berate you because your dinner numbers are wrong.
Should we move house? Should I go for promotion? What colour tiles in the bathroom? Should we change the car? Where should we holiday? we holiday? Where do we park? What should I wear? Should we marry? Who shall I invite to the party? to the party?
Turn to a partner Identify a real life problem in your life that you are having.
Should we get a dog?
We did!!!!!
Let’s play a game! The rules are dead simple: When you see the colour, shout out the word written on the slide.
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Think!
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New!
Facts!
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Does this presentation seem chaotic? Is this disconnected and hard to follow? Have you come here to gain meaning and yet you are being lead merely into confusion?
I agree!!!!!!
Edward de Bono Edward de Bono is regarded by many to be the leading authority in the world in the field of creative thinking and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. “I am one of the very few people in history to have had a major impact on the way we think - rather than on what we think.” (modest) Oxford scholar with a background in Medicine and Psychology
Using the Six hats to solve the problem of facial adhesion.
De Bono Talks about Six Hat Thinking
The Red Hat “What do I feel about this?” Emotions blur thinking and clarity Feelings, we bring prejudices, aethetics and anxiety to problems Hunches, we have gut reactions to things These need to be acknowledged when solving problems if we dont do this we try to disguise our feelings as LOGIC.
The Yellow Hat “What are the good points here?” What are the benefits? Good Points Benefits Reasons that the idea will work Likelihood This is the sunshine hat looking for the positives
The Black Hat What is wrong with this? Checking for evidence Checking for logic/feasibility Checking for impact Checking for fit Checking for weakness The Hat is there to help us making mistakes. it is there to point out dangers or difficulties. There is a world of difference between looking at an idea to attack it and looking at an idea to improve it.
The White Hat What information do we have? What information do we need? How do we get the information that we need? gather data, seek information, use and select the information that you have in order to inform the problem solving process.
The Green hat What Ideas do we have? Let’s look at things from a different/zany angle. Lets get creative. Be alternative Generate ideas Green shoots of creativity. You can’t assess an idea until you have one.
The Blue Hat What thinking has been done? What is the next step? What thinking is needed Metacognition Reviewing and summarising the thinking Finding the next steps Unlike the other hats, which are states of mind, this is a way of guiding the process to empower greater thinking.
The Government have decided that from September the school day will start at 10.30am rather than 9.00am. We will use the 6 Hats to think carefully about this idea and decide whether it is a good idea or not.
Red hat to find out what we feel about this idea.
White to consider what information and facts we already have or will need to know.
Yellow hat to think about the good points and give reasons.
Black hat to point out some of the problems we might need to think about and why.
Green hat to see if we can think of some really wacky ideas!
Blue to think about all the thinking and decide on the next steps.
Red hat to reflect on how we feel about our decision.
Thinking about the thinking METACOGNITION
Mr Groark the head teacher has decided that from September 2010 St Benets school day will start at 10.30am rather than 9.00am. We will use the 6 Hats to think carefully about this idea and decide whether it is a good idea or not.
Red hat to find out what we feel about this idea.
White to consider what information and facts we already have or will need to know.
Yellow hat to think about the good points and give reasons.
Black hat to point out some of the problems we might need to think about and why.
Green hat to see if we can think of some really wacky ideas!
Blue to think about all the thinking and decide on the next steps.
BLUE HAT Which hat were you wearing when you had most to say? What happens if someone mostly wears: Yellow? Green? Red? Black?
Six Hat Thinking Damian Groark CEO Challenging Learning