1. Please Select
Debate & Thinking Hats
Critical, Creative & Innovative
Thinking

2. Debate & Thinking Hats
Hat sequence for use when preparing for a debate. Essay writing – constructing an argument.
The lecturer should talk the class through the sequence.
Start with the Red Hat:
What is your emotional response to the statement?
Next use the White Hat:
What information do you need to research in order to make your view persuasive
and grounded in facts?
Now for the Yellow Hat:
All the points you can think of FOR your view.
Emphasise that these points must be rational and backed up by reasons.
…… followed by the Black Hat:
What do you think the objections to your view will be?
Finally, you need your Green Hat:
How will you counter-argue these objectives with solutions or alternatives?

3. Creative, Innovative, & Critical Thinking
Six Thinking Hats is a time-tested, proven and practical thinking tool. It provides a
framework to help students think clearly and thoroughly by directing their thinking
attention in one direction at a time--facts, creativity, benefits, cautions, feelings, and
process. It's a simple mental metaphor. Hats are easy to put on and to take off.
Each hat is a different colour which signals the thinking ingredient. In a group setting each
member thinks using the same thinking hat, at the same time, on the same challenge—we
call this focused parallel thinking--a tool that facilitates collaboration. It enables each
person's unique point of view to be included and considered. Argument and endless
discussion become a thing of the past. Thinking becomes more thorough.
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4. Blue Hat Thinking – Process Yellow Hat Thinking- Benefits
• Thinking about thinking • Positives, plus points
• What thinking is needed? • Logical reasons are given.
• Organising the thinking • Why an idea is useful
• Planning for action
White Hat Thinking- Facts
Black Hat Thinking - Cautions
• Information and data
• Neutral and objective • Difficulties, weaknesses, dangers
• What do I know? • Logical reasons are given.
• What do I need to find out? • Spotting the risks
• How will I get the information I need?
Red Hat Thinking - Feelings
Green Hat Thinking - Creativity
• Intuition, hunches, gut instinct
• Ideas, alternative, possibilities • My feelings right now.
• Provocation - "PO" • Feelings can change.
• Solutions to black hat problems • No reasons are given.