Creative Thinking Skills
Creative Thinking Skills
Creative Thinking Skills
Standards: An Oxymoron? Tampa, FL
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
flexibility
originality
elaboration
transformation
sensitivity to problems…
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
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?
Red Hat
Feelings,
Feelings emotions,
emotions intuition,
intuition hunches,
hunches
impressions, intellectual feelings.
The opposite of neutral, objective information.
No need to justify.
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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.
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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.
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Blue Hat
Control of Thinking
Thinking
Thi ki about thinking.
b t thi ki
Instructions for thinking.
Focus
Asking the right questions.
Defining the problem.
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.
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
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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?
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.
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
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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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
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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
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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
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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