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Preparing Students for Tomorrow’s Challenges

Preparing Students for Tomorrow’s Challenges. An Overview of the F uture P roblem S olving P rogram. F uture P roblem S olving P rogram Opening doors to the future.

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Preparing Students for Tomorrow’s Challenges

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  1. Preparing Students for Tomorrow’s Challenges An Overview of the Future Problem Solving Program

  2. Future ProblemSolvingProgramOpening doors to the future . . .

  3. 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.

  4. FPSP Creative Problem Solving Activities Include: Team and Individual Problem Solving Community Problem Solving/ Service Learning Creative Writing Curriculum Centered Problem Solving

  5. Future Problem Solvingteaches students how to think . . .not what to think

  6. Students develop generating and focusing skills while working cooperatively and collaboratively in groups

  7. The FPSP six-step model for building dynamic, creative thinking • IdentifyChallenges • Select an Underlying Problem • ProduceSolution Ideas • Generate & Select Criteria to Evaluate Solution Ideas • EvaluateSolution Ideas • Developan Action Plan

  8. The Future Problem Solving Programstimulates • Imagination • Ingenuity • Creativity

  9. Through FPS, students… • Develop creative thinking • Increase awareness of and interest in the future • Learn and employ problem-solving strategies • Develop, utilize and improve research techniques • Exercise critical and analytical thought • Improve oral and written communication • Develop team work skills • Engage in real-life problem solving

  10. The Future Problem Solving Program 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.

  11. FPSP Participation 42 US states, Australia, Korea New Zealand (Mentored Countries: Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore)

  12. 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

  13. FPSP 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

  14. Today’s students solving tomorrow’s global challenges Teams of four students apply the FPSPsix-step model, facilitated by an FPSP coach.

  15. 2010 International ConferenceJunior Division Team Competition

  16. FPSPI 2010 International CompetitionLaCrosse, Wisconsin Jaren Brownlee Peyton Heaberlin Hannah Smith Ethan Stanley

  17. Prep-work.

  18. The opening mixer is one of the highlights of IC where students make new friends and exchange mementos from their home state or country.

  19. 2010 Competition Nervous, Difficult, and Rewarding

  20. Help open doors to the future.

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