American School Counselor Association

Hear how DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats is a method to use during student, teacher and/or parent meetings to foster critical thinking with a problem-solving focus. Using this method during critical student meetings helps eliminate confusion and creates a visual representation that provides an effective means for school counselors... more

Hear how DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats is a method to use during student, teacher and/or parent meetings to foster critical thinking with a problem-solving focus. Using this method during critical student meetings helps eliminate confusion and creates a visual representation that provides an effective means for school counselors to conceptualize and present issues pertaining to students, ultimately leading to solutions. Learn how this technique also applies to the ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success. Please click here for the webinar handout.

Learning objectives:

After attending this webinar, you should be able to:

1. Examine the components of DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats technique during critical student meetings in the school counseling setting.


2. Experience the engagement, focus and visual representation this method brings to critical student meetings.


3. Analyze the effectiveness of DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats technique.

Presenters:

• Jacqueline L. Wirth, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Counseling School of Behavioral Sciences, Liberty University


• Summer Perhay Kuba, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Counseling School of Behavioral Sciences, Liberty University


• Laura Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Counseling School of Behavioral Sciences, Liberty University


• Kerry Lamphere Bowles,Assistant Professor of Counseling, School of Behavioral Sciences, Liberty University

Original air date: June 3, 2021, 11 a.m. Eastern