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Preparing Students for Preparing Students for Tomorrow’s ChallengesTomorrow’s Challenges
An Overview of the An Overview of the
FFuture uture PProblem roblem SSolving olving PProgramrogram
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PProblemroblem
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Opening Opening doors to the doors to the future . . .future . . .
Designed to help students enlarge, enrich and make more accurate their images of
the future, Future Problem Solving engages students in learning.
FPS equips today’s young people with the vision and skills needed to anticipate, understand and solve the problems of tomorrow.
FPSP is interdisciplinary and its components meet the creative thinking, creative writing, leadership skills and academic aptitude needs of gifted students.
FPSP Creative Problem Solving Activities Include:
Team and Individual Problem Solving
Community Problem Solving/ Service Learning
Creative Writing
Curriculum Centered Problem Solving
FFuture uture PProblem roblem
SSolvingolving teaches studentsteaches students how to think . . . how to think . . .not what to thinknot what to think
Students Students develop develop
generating generating and focusing and focusing skills while skills while
working working cooperatively cooperatively
and and collaboratively collaboratively
in groups in groups
The The FPSPFPSP six-step model for six-step model for building dynamic, creative building dynamic, creative
thinkingthinking IdentifyIdentify Challenges
SelectSelect an Underlying Problem
ProduceProduce Solution Ideas
Generate & SelectGenerate & Select Criteria to Evaluate Solution Ideas
EvaluateEvaluate Solution Ideas
DevelopDevelop an Action Plan
The The
FFuture uture PProblem roblem SSolving olving
PProgramrogram
stimulatesstimulates ImaginationImagination
IngenuityIngenuity
CreativityCreativity
Through Through FPS, students…FPS, students… Develop creative thinkingDevelop creative thinking
Increase awareness of and interest in the futureIncrease awareness of and interest in the future
Learn and employ problem-solving strategiesLearn and employ problem-solving strategies
Develop, utilize and improve research techniquesDevelop, utilize and improve research techniques
Exercise critical and analytical thoughtExercise critical and analytical thought
Improve oral and written communicationImprove oral and written communication
Develop team work skillsDevelop team work skills
Engage in real-life problem solvingEngage in real-life problem solving
The The FFutureuture P Problem roblem SSolving olving PProgram rogram
This award winning, educational program was founded in 1974 by Dr. E. Paul Torrance. Internationally renowned for his work in creativity and gifted education, he was also a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Georgia.
FPSP Participation
42 US states, Australia, Korea New Zealand (Mentored Countries: Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore)
Over 250,000 students participate in
Future Problem Solving each year.
FPS impacts positively the lives of 1,000,000 people each year.
In a 1999 survey of CmPS students at the FPSP International Conference it was determined that the 55 Community Problem Solving teams participating in IC impacted 494,000 persons to
date. This figure does not include the over 300 other CmPS teams not attending IC.
Marie Doyle - Miami, Florida
FPSPFPSP Team Competition Team Competition Three divisions:
Junior – grades 4-6 Middle – grades 7-9 Senior – grades 10-12
Four-person teams + coach Students explore complex societal issues 2010-2011 FPSP topics
Healthy Living, Air Transportation, Genetic Testing, Water Quality, and Emergency Planning
Practice problems, qualifying problem, affiliate finals and international competition
Feedback and evaluation provided Top teams advance to International Conference
Teams of four students apply the FPSPsix-step model, facilitated by an FPSP coach.
Today’s students solving tomorrow’s global
challenges
2010 International Conference2010 International ConferenceJunior Division Team CompetitionJunior Division Team Competition
Jaren Brownlee Peyton Heaberlin
Hannah Smith Ethan Stanley
FPSPI 2010 FPSPI 2010 International CompetitionInternational Competition
LaCrosse, WisconsinLaCrosse, Wisconsin
Prep-work.Prep-work.
The opening mixer is one of the highlights of IC where students The opening mixer is one of the highlights of IC where students make new friends and exchange mementos from their home state make new friends and exchange mementos from their home state
or country.or country.
Nervous, Difficult, and Rewarding
2010 Competition2010 Competition
Help open doors to the future.Help open doors to the future.