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Slide 1: CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
Slide 2: THE QUESTION IS NOT: How creative are YOU? THE QUESTION IS: HOW are you creative?
Slide 3: WHAT IS CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING? A structured method for: approaching problems in an imaginative way generating novel and useful solutions to problems
Slide 4: CREATIVE THINKING V.S. CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
Slide 5: Creative Thinking Thinking Creative thinking is the process which we use when we come up with a new idea. This creative thinking process can be accidental or deliberate. Creative Problem Solvingg Uses both divergent and convergent thinking during each step. Each step begins with divergent thinking, a broad search for many alternatives. This is followed by convergent thinking, the process of evaluating and selecting. Taken from the website: www.bra inst ormin g.co.uk    
Slide 6: DIVERGENT CONVERGENT Generating lots of options by: Judging options/ making decisions by:     Deferring Judgment Striving for Quantity Seeking wild ideas Combining and Building on ideas.  Judging affirmatively; “What I like about this is …”  Being Deliberate  Examining, refining, revising and improving ideas  Checking your objectives; “It would be nice if …  a list of your criteria
Slide 7: CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING six steps
Slide 8: STEP 1: MESS FINDING IDENTIFY GOAL OR CHALLENGE  Analyze what is known  List the purpose  Select the best objective(s) to define task
Slide 9: STEP 2: DATA FINDING GATHER DATA  Collect Data  Observe  Explore Facts and Feelings  Choose important information (For each objective)
Slide 10: STEP 3: PROBLEM FINDING CLARIFY THE PROBLEM  Prioritize  Speculate about problems  Look from different perspectives  Restate  In What Ways Might I…
Slide 11: STEP 4: IDEA FINDING CLARIFY THE PROBLEM  Generate many, varied, unusual  Elaborate  Free of judgment  Link ideas together
Slide 12: STEP 5: SOLUTION FINDING SORT OUT POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS  Select criteria for evaluation  Screen and sort using criteria  Identify the most promising  Choose best solution
Slide 13: STEP 6: ACCEPTANCE FINDING CREATE A PLAN OF ACTION  Consider all audiences  Brainstorm possible concerns or arguments  Pilot a plan  Make a contingency
Slide 14: Bibliography Eberle, B and Stanish, B. CP S fpr kids. Prufo ck Press 1996 ppg67 “Creative Problem Solving is fun, but it is not for fun.” -Sydney Parnes CPS and Idea Generating Techniques. Taken from: http:// www.foursightconsulting.com Destination Imagination Ic. Taken from: www.destinationimagination
Slide 15: CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING
Slide 16: THE RULES  Read each question and choose the best answer.  Put the matching M and M color in the box with the corresponding question.  If you answer all questions correctly, you will create the correct M and M pattern.  GOOD LUCK!
Slide 17: HOW MANY STEPS IN CPS? SIX EIGHT
Slide 18: EACH CPS STEP FOLLOWS WHAT ORDER OF THINKING? DIVERGENT to CONVERGENT CONVERGENT to DIVERGENT
Slide 19: IS A MESS AND A PROBLEM THE SAME THING? YES NO
Slide 20: IN WHAT STEP DO I GATHER INFORMATION? ACCPETANCE FINDING DATA FINDING
Slide 21: WHEN IDEA FINDING, SHOULD I MAKE JUDGMENTS? YES NO
Slide 22: WHO WAS QUOTED AT THE END OF THE PRESENTATION? SYDNEY PARNES PUNKY BREWSTER
Slide 23: THE CORRECT PATTERN IS….
Slide 24: 1 2 3
Slide 25: 4 5 6