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Define the tool Practice
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Process
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Principles
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Project
The teacher guides will lead you through each lesson. The D and Ps are each summarized on handy student cards. You can also conduct the whole lesson orally, without the cards, on the chalk board, overhead projector, computer terminals, etc.
The first strand of 10 lessons (CoRT Breadth) is sequential. After that you can pick and choose the strand(s) that best suite your students, or you can teach the whole program systematically.
You may also choose a "tool of the week" and teach a little bit about it for 5-10 minutes a day. The lessons are great for an attention-getter first thing in the morning or right after lunch to refocus the students' attention.
Even if you only find time for a few of the CoRT tools you will be giving your students a gift that will change the way they think, not just for a day but for a lifetime! "...it is reasonable to conclude that CoRT has considerable impact on thinking about the kinds of imaginative or common sense situations highlighted in CoRT materials...there can be some impact on general measure of intelligence and on school performance...CoRT is straightforward, ingenious, and quite easy to apply. Intelligence can be taught with CoRT" Outsmarting IQ: Them Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence by David Perkins, Ph.D
CoRT is a 60 lesson, 2 year program that teaches students of all abilities to effectively apply their intelligence to any academic, personal, or social situation. The lessons are generic enough to be taught at any grade level from K - 12, with minor adaptations.
Six thinking hats for students
The ability to think effectively is a skill that has to
be learnt. This ability improves with practice in the
use of thinking tools . The Six Thinking Hats
system, pioneered by Dr. Edward de Bono, helps in
structured thinking and creativity, by allowing the
user to overcome some of the barriers, which stand
in the way of balanced and focused thinking . Each
of the Six Hats represents a particular mode of
thinking - The Green Hat for Creativity, the Blue
Hat for Thinking, the Red Hat for Feelings, the
Yellow Hat for Benefits, the White Hat for
Information and the Black Hat for Judgement.
Students are taught to recognize each of the six
modes and to come up with the thinking,
appropriate to each colour . This enables them to
think in the mode, which they consider suitable for
a particular thinking situation.
Such an approach helps them
to overcome problems of
waffle or drift, which result
from the inability to
identify one’s thinking,
required for a particular
situation
