Missouri Future Problem Solving Program
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Missouri Future Problem Solving Program
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What is the Future Problem Solving Program International?The Future Problem Solving Program International (FPSPI) is a nonprofit educational corporation that promotes creative problem solving for students. There are over forty affiliate programs in the United States, Korea, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Japan and Malaysia. Students in several other countries also participate in FPSP activities. Missouri Future Problem Solving is an affiliate program of the international corporation. What is Future Problem Solving?The Future Problem Solving Program International (FPSPI) publication, Problem Solving Across the Curriculum, emphasizes the FPSPI teaches a technique for constructively analyzing a topic or issue. The topics are chosen from strands to offer students opportunities to research various future scenarios and think about the future. It is important that students learn how to overcome obstacles or barriers when confronting challenges and developing solutions to social, political, scientific, economic and technological issues. FPSPI provides this opportunity and emphasizes academic skills. The basic steps of the Future Problem Solving model are: Research – gather information from a variety of sources about the broad topic. Step 1: Identify Challenges – Analyze the specific situation stated in the future scene and identify sixteen challenges related to the situation. Step 2: Select an Underlying Problem – Select an important part of the future scene to solve. Step 3: Produce Solution Ideas – Produce sixteen solution ideas that will solve the underlying problem. Step 4: Generate and Select Criteria – Generate criteria and select five that evaluate the potential or merit of the solution idea. Step 5: Apply criteria – Use the five criteria to evaluate the ten most promising solution ideas produced in Step 3. Step 6: Develop an Action Plan – Improve upon the best solution idea and describe the actions necessary for the implementation of the solution. The Future Problem Solving Goals are: 1. Encourage real-life problem-solving experiences 2. Learn and utilize problem-solving strategies 3. Develop and improve research techniques 4. Exercise critical and analytical thought 5. Improve written and verbal communication skills 6. Develop creative thinking 7. Increase awareness of and interest in future possibilities 8. Develop teamwork skills Future Problem Solving is a process which engages students in creative problem solving. Founded by creativity pioneer, Dr. E. Paul Torrance, the Future Problem Solving Program International (FPSPI) stimulates critical and creative thinking skills, and encourages students to develop a vision for the future. FPSP features curricular and co-curricular competitive, as well as non-competitive, activities in creative problem solving. Opening doors to student imaginations since 1974, the Future Problem Solving Program International offers exciting learning opportunities. Students experience creative thinking and the satisfaction of resolving difficult problems with unique solution ideas when they participate in FPSP. FPSP educational materials help students discover rich and varied ways of thinking.
FPSPI teaches students how to think, not what to think.
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