STRATEGIC THINKING FOR SUPERVISORS 02

TABLE OF CONTENT

1. Creative and critical thinking
2. Multiple intelligences
3. Strategic thinking tools

1.creative and critical thinking

• what is creative thinking?

it is about generating ideas,or

processes or

experience objects

• what is critical thinking?

it is about evaluatiing them refer to creative thinking.

• creative thinking requires-

critical thinkers to gather information from observation,experience,reasoning and /or communication.

critical thinking has its basic in intellectual values that go beyond subject-matter divisions,as well as clarity,accuracy,precision,evidence,throughness and fairness.

• then ,critical thinking

also known as creativeness.

it is about a mental process involving the generation of news ideas or concepts or new associations between existing ideas or concepts.

2. Multiple intelligences-

people can think productively in a variety of ways.

developed by Dr Howard Gardner,Harvard University, USA.

-Your brain

-Left brain =logical-sorts out the detail-verbal learning-academic cognitive processes.

Right brain = creative-big picture-visual elements,affective,intuitive,spatial,emotional,divergent thinking.

-linguistic learner-

saying,hearing and seeing words- poet

- logical/mathematical

classifying and working with abtract patterns-scientists

-spatial learner-

visualising, working with colours/pictures -airline pilot

-musical learner

Rhythm,melody and music composer.

-bodily/kinaesthetic-

touching,moving,processing knowledge throughbodily sensations -dancer