Concept of "Six hats strategy" The concept is typically used in business settings; however, applying the same concept in counseling supervision can help facilitate and balance diverse viewpoints and polarities. (Li, 2008). Six thinking hats' strategy helps in creative thinking in which one can unbundle thinking; in a way that one can pay full attention to each aspect in turn. Through using this strategy, one can separate the modes of thinking and then apply each mode to the same subject in order to end up with full color thinking on the subject. There is a suggestion that the chemical setting in the brain (neurotransmitter, etc) may be different when one is being positive from when one is being negative, and from one is being creative. If this …show more content…
Literature on six thinking hats has been more focused on educational areas, with a lack of studies on the supervision field. Chen (2000) applied six thinking hats to cultivate diversity of thinking in students in Taiwan. The red hat represents the subjective feelings and emotion of a person; the black hat represents the criticisms and judgments of a person; the white hat represents objective and neutral thinking; the yellow hat represents positive thinking; the green hat represents creative thinking, and the blue hat represents the integration of all the above categories of thought represented by the other five hats in order to come to a conclusion. Tamura and Furukawa (2007) merged Edward de Bono‟s six thinking hats into internet learning to train students in problem-solving, and the study indicated that including six thinking hats decreased the teaching load of the instructors and increased the quantitative and qualitative problem solving strategies of the students as compared with students not trained using six thinking hats. Wang (2003) compared 14 elementary students who took six thinking hats training with another 14 as a control group regarding the difference of problem-solving abilities. The study included 11teaching units with six thinking hats, and results indicated that the experimental group had higher scores in explaining inference, casual …show more content…
All counselor interns contribute while wearing a specific hat even though they initially may support an opposite point of view. The goal of this method is to demonstrate how many considerations each person can put forward under each respective hat. One intern’s ego is no longer tied to being correct. In using the Six Thinking Hats with counselor interns, one of the major benefits is that all counselor interns work collaboratively, focusing jointly on each respective hat. For example, in one group supervision session, one intern appreciated that in his own previous problem-solving attempts, he tended to be the overly optimistic Yellow Hat thinker, while another intern tended to be the overly negative Black Hat thinker. Collaborating as a team helps minimize such polarized, entrenched positions among counselor interns. The Six Thinking Hats method fully utilizes the intelligence, experience, and knowledge of all counselor interns in a collaborative rather than competitive manner. ( Li,
In this time, most teachers’ brains have been numbed from all of the talk about the thinking process and abstract thinking skills (Ravitch). Students need a lot of knowledge to be able to think critically as they are expected to (Ravitch). We stand on the shoulders of those before us, we did not restart as each generation comes up in the world as we wish it would (Ravitch). What we need to be learning is how to use our brain’s capacity to make generalizations so we can see past our own experiences
Metacognition can be complex; however, it is essential to teach at an elementary level because it’s an intellectual habit that can be obtain by the teacher’s method of teaching and the student’s consciousness of learning. Thinking about thinking is necessary in elementary level because of the awareness of the student’s thinking process. The teacher must be conscious of the different aspects of learning of each student and be able to work with them with different strategies that are the best to make their learning process more effective and interesting.
Collective perspectives may be seen in classrooms, across campuses, within districts, or even within corporations. The culture, teachings, and beliefs of a unit of thinking become the platform for transformational learning for the leader.
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Creativity is something that isn’t taught but learned through self-reflection. Creativity requires one to be able to express their thoughts through words or other various forms of expression. Creativity allows students to come up with practical solutions to everyday problems when applying them to real life situations. This teaches students that there may be several ways to solve a problem, but no solution is better than the other. “People who are creatively successful go beyond merely performing a job, becoming sources of new ideas, discoveries, and inventions” (Zagursky). Students that are more creative thinkers; instead of, standardized test takers may find it difficult to advance in class. According to Kim Zagursky, the Torrance test is the most widely used creativity test in the world and is the best predictor of creative achievement. The Torrance test, named for creator E. Paul Torrance, was developed in the late 1950s as a potential tool to individualize student instruction (Zagursky). Unfortunately, as time past creativity is becoming less among our students. There is a growing concern for the ability to form their own opinions about ideas they have read. The questions in the Sternberg’s Kaleidoscope policy was designed to measure creativity, ana¬lytical, practical, and wisdom-based skills and attitudes (DiMaria 55). Sternberg’s policy is currently being used at Oklahoma State
A classroom of thirty is filled with a diverse group of students that think in all different ways. Each child’s brain processes informat...
applied to everyday duties and long-range planning. Critical thinking adds an extra edge to the
Happy Hat, a U.S. national chain of frozen yogurt stores with about 500 stores in 40 states is asking for assistance with its business processes. The average number of visitors per store has held constant over the past several years, but revenues per store are down by an average of 10%, and many stores are no longer profitable. The client suspects that a large amount of inventory is being thrown away unused at the end of each day. At the same time, customer polling suggests that the yogurt flavor customers want is often not available, even when the flavor is posted on the menu. People also complain about stores being closed when they visit. Now, the chain is facing increased competition from frozen yogurt sold in 24-hour grocery stores. Happy
Design thinking is a process for practical, creative resolution of problems or issues that looks for an improved future result. It is the essential ability to combine empathy, creativity and rationality to meet user needs and drive business success. Unlike analytical thinking, design thinking is a creative process based around the building up of ideas. There are no judgments early on the design thinking (Simon, 1969, p. 55). Design thinking includes imagination and reason, a combination of convergent and divergent thought, and creativity. Design thinking might be thought of as dialectic, or conversation. It involves design wisdom, judgment, and knowledge. Lastly, design thinking is skill (Hegeman, 2008).
De Bono's six thinking hats use this lateral thinking technique. All members of a group will focus on a single aspect of a problem at the same time, moving on to another aspect together once discussion of the current one is exhausted. For example the Black hat is for judgment, the Green hat for creativity and the White hat signifies information needed or already know. This system is widely used for business' mainly in meetings, but also used in classrooms as well. is best understood in contrast to traditional argument or adversarial thinking. By wearing each hat you can effectively scan the entire situation and separate your thinking modes and ultimately embrace a more holistic or global perspective and approach to your problem or challenge. This approach is simple but powerful.
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At the beginning of the school year, the counselors had a scope and sequence they followed with the areas of; transitions, character and diversity, personal safety/wellness, and careers. The scope and sequence is modeled after the WCSCM’s Academic Standards for School Counseling covering the three domains of academic, personal/social, and career development. The standards help answer the question, “How are students different as a result of the school counseling program.” After each description of a lessons plans, was an explanation of each content standard which correlated with the lesson. While at my internships, I assisted with lesson planning and facilitating guidance lessons on careers, transitions or Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS), as well as, groups on character development, new student groups, and diversity. The WCSCM is completely embedded in the counseling programs at both of the districts I worked
our thought process, and how we contribute to the process of group work. This involves a
Critical thinking a strong and powerful way to use the brain, it is used by millions everyday some without knowledge that they are even using it. Critical thinking according to Diane Halpern as " The use of those cognitive skills or strategies that increase the probability of a desirable outcome...thinking that is purposeful, reasoned and goal directed - the kind of thinking involved in solving problems, formulating inferences, calculating likelihoods, and making decisions when the thinker is using skills that are thoughtful and effective for the particular context and type of thinking task. Critical thinking is sometimes called directed thinking because it focuses on a desired outcome." Halpern (1996).
They also keep their minds open to new solutions, so that at any moment they can change to a different resolution that could be easier to complete. This extreme level of creativity allows them to solve problems and resolve issues much easier and much more efficiently (“Thinking Strategies”).