Transcript Problems - Thinking Schools International

Six Hat Thinking
Damian Groark
CEO Challenging Learning
[email protected]
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.
Who shall I invite
to the party?
Where do we park?
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.
Wow!
Think!
Yes!
No!
New!
Facts!
New!
No!
Yes!
Facts!
Think!
Wow!
New!
Wow!
Facts!
No!
Yes!
Think!
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.
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.
METACOGNITION
Thinking about the thinking
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
[email protected]