The six hats strategy

January 7, 2025

Applying the six hats strategy in teaching:

The six hats strategy concests of strategies or means which enable the individual to achieve six type of thinking  according to different color , achieve the parallel thinking which is :

⚪The white hat:(neutral thinking)

🔴The red hat:(emotional thinking)

⚫The black hat:(critical thinking)

🟡The yellow hat: (positive thinking)

🟢The green hat: (creative thinking)

🔵The blue hat:( holistic thinking)

The importance of using the six hats strategy in teaching :

➡Gives space and time for creative thinking

➡It allows investigation operations for collecting information, positive thinking, critical thinking and express emotions.

➡It allows the student to participative in all lessons stages .

➡It gives chances to explore deeply.

➡Keeping away from conflict topics and twist due to waring defined hat at the same time.

➡Encourage subscribe in expressing without sensitivity, positivity, criticism, creativity ,

Optimism, pessimism

When any student wear a defined hot to think by it and thereafter to move to a second hat and third etc…..that makes the discuation deeper, easier, less collision and shorter time easily spending then time didn’t vanish in twist and the team didn’t overturn between supporter and opposite energy of creativity is motivated by mutual friendly climate between members.

IT allows student to say things without periled to sarcasm

➡Establishing the awareness of the existence of different point of view about a subject or a problem

➡Gives chance for criticism and deriving positives and suggesting new ideas

➡It cancels random thinking by arranging questions and classroom communication

➡Simplifies and clarify thinking for achieving more validity

As we have noticed that this strategy makes the teacher able to control over the lesson and arrange its contents  which makes teaching and learning more easy.

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