Creative Thinking skills and State  NAGC 2008

Standards:  An Oxymoron? Tampa, FL

Creative Thinking Skills and State

Standards: An Oxymoron?

Carol L. Tieso, Ph.D.

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“Class of 1964” Distinguished Associate Professor of Education
The College of William and Mary
clties@wm.edu
http://clties.people.wm.edu/

Creative Thinking Skills

‡ SCAMPER
‡ Talents Unlimited
‡ Creative Problem Solving
‡ DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats
‡ Synectics
‡ Creative Dramatics
‡ What else???

Carol L. Tieso, Ph.D.
Gifted Education 1
The College of William and Mary
Creative Thinking skills and State  NAGC 2008
Standards:  An Oxymoron? Tampa, FL

Creativity: Cognitive Abilities

‡ fluency

‡ flexibility

‡ originality

‡ elaboration

‡ transformation

‡ sensitivity to problems…

Creativity: Cognitive Abilities

‡ able to define problems

‡ visualization, imagination

‡ analogical/metaphorical thinking

‡ able to p
predict outcomes,,
consequences...

Carol L. Tieso, Ph.D.
Gifted Education 2
The College of William and Mary
Creative Thinking skills and State  NAGC 2008
Standards:  An Oxymoron? Tampa, FL

SCAMPER
‡Substitute
‡Combine
‡Adapt
‡Modify, Magnify, Minify
‡Put to other
h uses
‡Eliminate
‡Reverse, Rearrange
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Talents Unlimited
‡ Productive Thinking
‡ Decision-Making
‡ Planning
Academic
‡ Forecasting
‡ Causes
‡ Effects

‡ Communication
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Carol L. Tieso, Ph.D.
Gifted Education 3
The College of William and Mary
Creative Thinking skills and State  NAGC 2008
Standards:  An Oxymoron? Tampa, FL

Creative Process: CPS

‡ Fact-finding
‡ Who did what,, when,, where,, why,
y, and how?
‡ Problem-finding
‡ “In what ways might we…?”
‡ “What is the real problem?”
‡ “Why do I want to do this?”
‡ Idea-finding
‡ brainstorming
‡ Solution-finding
‡ list criteria for evaluation
‡ evaluate ideas
‡ select one or more of the best ideas
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Carol L. Tieso, Ph.D.
Gifted Education 4
The College of William and Mary
Creative Thinking skills and State  NAGC 2008
Standards:  An Oxymoron? Tampa, FL

White Hat
‡ What information do we have?
‡ What information do we need?

‡ What information is missing?

‡ What questions do we need to ask?

‡ How are we going to get the information

we need?
d?
Hard ↔ Soft
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Red Hat
‡ Feelings,
Feelings emotions,
emotions intuition,
intuition hunches,
hunches
impressions, intellectual feelings.
‡ The opposite of neutral, objective information.

‡ No need to justify.

‡ No need to give reasons or the basis.

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Carol L. Tieso, Ph.D.
Gifted Education 5
The College of William and Mary
Creative Thinking skills and State  NAGC 2008
Standards:  An Oxymoron? Tampa, FL

Black Hat
Risks, dangers,
Risks dangers obstacles,
obstacles potential problems,
problems
and the downside of a suggestion.
‡ Assessment: Should we proceed with this
suggestion?
‡ Design Process: What are the weaknesses that
wee need to
t overcome?
erc me?
‡ Risks and Potential Problems in the Future:
What may go wrong if we implement this
suggestion?
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Yellow Hat
p
‡ Speculative-Positive
‡ Positive thinking.
‡ Yellow is for sunshine and brightness.

‡ Optimism.

‡ Focus on benefit.

‡ Constructive thinking and making things

happen.

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Carol L. Tieso, Ph.D.
Gifted Education 6
The College of William and Mary
Creative Thinking skills and State  NAGC 2008
Standards:  An Oxymoron? Tampa, FL

Green Hat

‡ Creati e Thinking
Creative Thinkin
‡ New ideas, new concepts, and new
perceptions.
‡ The deliberative creation of new ideas.

‡ Alternatives
Alt ti and
d more alternatives.
lt ti
‡ Change.

‡ New approaches to problems.

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Blue Hat
‡ Control of Thinking
‡ Thinking
Thi ki about thinking.
b t thi ki
‡ Instructions for thinking.

‡ The organization of thinking.

‡ Control of the other hats.

‡ Focus
‡ Asking the right questions.
‡ Defining the problem.

‡ Setting the thinking tasks.

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Carol L. Tieso, Ph.D.
Gifted Education 7
The College of William and Mary
Creative Thinking skills and State  NAGC 2008
Standards:  An Oxymoron? Tampa, FL

Blue Hat
‡ Program Design
‡ Stepp byy step.
p
‡ Software for thinking.

‡ Choreography.

‡ Summaries and Conclusions

‡ Observation and overview.
‡ Comment.

‡ Summaries, conclusions, harvesting,

g and reports.
p
‡ Control and Monitoring
‡ The chairperson.
‡ Discipline and focus.

‡ Who is in charge?

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Synectics
‡Making the familiar strange and
making the strange familiar.
‡ Personal analogy
‡ Direct analogy

‡ Compressed conflicts

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Carol L. Tieso, Ph.D.
Gifted Education 8
The College of William and Mary
Creative Thinking skills and State  NAGC 2008
Standards:  An Oxymoron? Tampa, FL

Uses of Synectics
‡ To enhance critical thinking
‡ List attributes
‡ Make comparisons

‡ To enhance creativity
‡ See things in a new way
‡ Generate alternatives

‡ To enhance writing

‡ To enhance problem solving abilities

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Personal Analogy
‡ Interview Summer: Tell the class that they
are summer.
summer Then ask questions like the
following:
‡ Who is your best friend, Summer?
‡ What are you afraid of?

‡ What do yyou do for fun?

‡ You are preparing the students to use
personifications--I am summer, I play tag
with the noontime shadows.
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Carol L. Tieso, Ph.D.
Gifted Education 9
The College of William and Mary
Creative Thinking skills and State  NAGC 2008
Standards:  An Oxymoron? Tampa, FL

Direct Analogy
‡ An automobile wheel in rotation is like…
‡ The cutter on a can opener.
Th
‡ The rotor of a helicopter.

‡ The orbit of Mars.

‡ A spinning seed pod.

‡ A hoopp snake.

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Direct Analogy
‡ How is laughter like a smudge of peanut
butter?
‡ How is a coffee pot like losing your
temper?
‡ Which is louder? Having g the attention of
a crowd of people? Being ignored?

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Carol L. Tieso, Ph.D.
Gifted Education 10
The College of William and Mary
Creative Thinking skills and State  NAGC 2008
Standards:  An Oxymoron? Tampa, FL

Synectics: Compressed Conflicts

‡ Two-word descriptions
p of an object
j
where the words seem to be opposites
or contradict each other.
‡ Life-saving destroyer
‡ Nourishing g flame
‡ Safe attack

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Symbolic Analogy: Compressed

Conflicts

‡What
Wh t is
i ddescribed by th
ib d b the tterms
wickedly delicious? Delicate
armor? Silent storm?

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Carol L. Tieso, Ph.D.
Gifted Education 11
The College of William and Mary
Creative Thinking skills and State  NAGC 2008
Standards:  An Oxymoron? Tampa, FL

Symbolic Analogy: Compressed

Conflicts
‡ Have the class give examples of things that share both
characteristics
h i i and d explain
l i whyh and d what
h causes the
h
tension. Then have them choose a word that describes
summer, like hot (burning, flaming, steamy). Then
choose an antonym for hot, like cold. Change the
form into a noun--coolness. Then brainstorm other
synonyms for coolness, like ice, snow, frigidity, etc.
Then randomly combine a word from list 1 with one
from list 2 like steamy ice. If that were the name of a
book, what would it be about?

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Stretching exercises
‡ How is a beaver chewing on a log like a
yp
typewriter?
‡ Which is softer-a whisper or a kitten’s fur?
‡ Imagine that you are a spider who is trying to
spin a web on a rainy, story day. BE THE
THING! As the spider, what does the storm
do to you and how do you feel about it?
‡ Delicate armor describes…
‡ An example of repulsive attraction is…

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Carol L. Tieso, Ph.D.
Gifted Education 12
The College of William and Mary
Creative Thinking skills and State  NAGC 2008
Standards:  An Oxymoron? Tampa, FL

English: Grade 2 (Virginia SOLs)

‡ 2.1 The student will demonstrate an
understanding of oral language structure.
‡ Create oral stories to share with others.
‡ Create and participate in oral dramatic activities.
‡ Use correct verb tenses in oral communication.
‡ Use increasingly complex sentence structures in oral
communication.
‡ 2.8 The student will read and demonstrate
comprehension of fiction and nonfiction.
‡ Make predictions about content.
‡ Read to confirm predictions.
‡ Describe characters, setting, and important events in fiction
and poetry.
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Mathematics (FL: K-6, #8, 11)

8. Knowledge of Measurement:
‡ Evaluate how a change in length, width, height, or
radius affects perimeter, circumference, area,
surface area, or volume.
11. Knowledge of data analysis and probability:
‡ Make accurate p
predictions and draw conclusions
from data.

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Carol L. Tieso, Ph.D.
Gifted Education 13
The College of William and Mary
Creative Thinking skills and State  NAGC 2008
Standards:  An Oxymoron? Tampa, FL

Social Science (VA SOLs)

‡ USII.6 The student will demonstrate
knowledge of the major causes and
effects of American involvement in
World War II by
‡ identifying
e t y g tthee causes aand eve
events
ts that
t at led
e to
American involvement in the war, including
the attack on Pearl Harbor;

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Your Turn…
‡ Choose one of the standards in your
handout and apply one or more of
the creative thinking skills…do a
“think-pair-share” with your
neighbor.

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Carol L. Tieso, Ph.D.
Gifted Education 14
The College of William and Mary