EDUCATION OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
Not only can we use the Six Thinking Hats in New Zealand Curriculum learning areas but they can also be used in education outside the classroom.
Using the Six Thinking Hats outside the classroom will provide extra learning opportunities for students: expanding thinking possibilities, finding solutions and overcoming challenges.
Below we have provided two examples of how to use the Thinking Hats outside of the classroom:
Field Trips:
Using the Thinking Hats on field trips can be beneficial as they create the opportunity to actively engage students and enhance their learning further.
For example, students could use their Blue Thinking Hats to follow the process of something they are observing on a field trip, their White Hats to determine the new information they have discovered and their Yellow Hats to determine the benefits of the field trip.
School Camps:
Incorporating the Thinking Hats at school camp is a great way to put students' thinking into real life contexts. School Camp can be a challenging time for some students with activities such as the confidence course, group and team work and even just sleeping away from home.
Using the Thinking Hats can help students find solutions and overcome some of these challenges.
For example, students can put on their Red Thinking Hats to describe and discuss their feelings about being at school camp, they can put on their Green Thinking Hats to come up with creative ideas about working together with others as a team. They can also put on their Yellow
and Black Hats to identify and discuss the positives and negatives of some activities they have participated in.
Graphic Organiser Here we have provided an example of a graphic organiser and how it can be used with 'The Six Thinking Hats.' The middle space can be used to write the 'topic' or 'theme' you are working on. The six circles off the centre can be used to represent each one of the thinking hats. From this, each thinking hat circle would have it's own ideas stemming from it that relate to the topic in the centre. |