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Links to the curriculum areas and Education Outside the Classroom

Students will identify and increase their knowledge of Edward Debono's 6 thinking hats within a classroom setting and intergrate them within the curriculum that is being taught. Once they are confident in doing so they will be able to use their knowledge of each individual thinking hat and apply them to education outside of the classsroom.

pieces of work i.e what is good about the text or what is not so good. By doing this it gives the students the opportunity to have ownership over their learning and contribute within the curriculum area. They can also use the same hats when communicating ideas using the think, peer share strategy. || skills. Within mathematics there is an importance placed around problem solving and children who are wearing the green hat will be able too think and react "outside of the square". This also shows that the students are not confined to set boundries an instead look at ways outside of these to think an make tasks more challening and more rewarding for them. ||
 * Curriculum area || Example provided ||
 * English || Students can adopt the yellow thinking hat (positive) and the black thinking hat (negative) and critique
 * Mathematics || Within the mathematics curriculum students can put on the green thinking hat which draws on their creativity
 * Social Science || Students will be able to put on the white thinking hats (objective thinking) when they are taking notes on a specific topics that they are learning about. When the stduents wear the white hat they are exploring factual information. An example of this is learning about the Treaty of Waitangi,they are recording information about what was included within the Maori version of the treaty and what was in the European version of the treaty as they both contain factual information. ||

EOTC example

An example of where De Bono's thinking hats that can be introduced in an educational setting outside the classroom may include reflecting and during trips outside the classroom such as to art galleries, museums, early settler museums. These experiences can draw on all 6 of De Bono's thinking hats and the students can put anyone on and remove it as they choose.