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Synectics Model
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The Synectics Model
Version 3
Benefits
"The Synectics Excursion"
Step 1
- Present the Problem
Step 2
- Provide Expert Information
Step 3
- Question Obvious Solutions and Purge
Step 4
- Generate Individual Problem Statements
Step 5
- Choose One Problem Statement for Focus
Step 6
- Question through the use of Analogies
Step 7
- Force Analogies to Fit the Problem
Step 8
- Determine a Solution from the New Viewpoint
Madison Ledford
and
Stephanie Oliaro
- Creativity
- Different Perspectives
- Connections
- Development of Problem-Solving and social skills
Version 2
What it does?
"Making the Strange Familiar"
Step 1
- Provide Information
Step 2
- Present the Analogy
Step 3
- Use Personal Analogy to Create Compressed Conflicts
Step 4
- Compare the Compressed Conflict with the Subject
Step 5
- Identify Differences
Step 6
- Reexamine the Original Subject
Step 7
- Create New Direct Analogies
- Encourages interdisciplinary relationships by comparing and contrasting unlike concepts
- Examples:
- Civil War
- Earthquake
- “Janusian thinking”
Ultimate Goal!
- Find practical and realistic solutions to problems
- More effective and powerful ways of communicating
- Developing new ways of thinking and ways of solving problems.
What is Synectics?
Evaluation/Assessments
- “understanding together that which is apparently different.”
- Group interaction to create insights.
- To enhance creativity in problem solving by consciously developing analogies for emotion and rational approaches.
- Making connection between what they know and what are trying to learn.
- Showing and developing different points of view on a topic through experiments, problem solving and working together.
- Formative Assessments
- Extend analogies to prior knowledge
- Summative Assessments
- Constructed responses by asking questions to understand view points
- Rubrics
- Synectics Process
- Quality of metaphors
Differentiation
Version 1
- Teachers encourage students to make those connections with the content by using analogies and graphic organizers.
- Sentence stretchers
- Draw example
NOW
YOU
TRY!
"Making the Familiar Strange"
Step 1
- Describe the Topic
Step 2
- Create Direct Analogies
Step 3
- Describe Personal Analogies
Step 4
- Identify Compressed Conflicts
Step 5
- Create a New Direct Analogy
Step 6
- Reexamine the Original Topic
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