My Creative Environment:
As a teacher, I see the well structured environment one of the biggest achievements that any school & teacher may provide. In a conductive to creativity climate, you will find:
- Clean and neat classroom
- Well structured materials on shelves
- Wide space for each child to move
- A room for children to mess-up and work freely
- Organized areas for different subjects
- Freedom of choice and work
Creative problem solving:
The approach of CPS is about thinking and doing things. We use a new (creative) ideas to overcome a problem (a gap between what we don't have and what we want) to get this problem solved (implemented).
In a school environment, any child uses the front door to come to school every morining, but what if they had to use the back stairs in case of emergency? What if the stairs were crowded? Shouldn't they think of plan A & B? OK, now they have more than one plan, how would they implement using them? Thinking about all those ideas and put them in use is what we call CPS.
“The world we have made, as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far, creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them.”
Albert Einstein
The CPS Process
Is used when you want to enhance your natural creativity, when you want to be creative on purpose.
The diversity of approaches to the creative problem solving process that have developed since is a testimony to the power of the idea. While many models exist, the Creative Education Foundation focuses on an evolution of the Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving process called the CPS Learner’s Model.
Based on the Osborn-Parnes process, the CPS Model uses plain language and recent research. The basic structure is comprised of four stages with a total of six explicit process steps. Each step uses divergent and convergent thinking.
As a teacher, I see the well structured environment one of the biggest achievements that any school & teacher may provide. In a conductive to creativity climate, you will find:
- Clean and neat classroom
- Well structured materials on shelves
- Wide space for each child to move
- A room for children to mess-up and work freely
- Organized areas for different subjects
- Freedom of choice and work
Creative problem solving:
The approach of CPS is about thinking and doing things. We use a new (creative) ideas to overcome a problem (a gap between what we don't have and what we want) to get this problem solved (implemented).
In a school environment, any child uses the front door to come to school every morining, but what if they had to use the back stairs in case of emergency? What if the stairs were crowded? Shouldn't they think of plan A & B? OK, now they have more than one plan, how would they implement using them? Thinking about all those ideas and put them in use is what we call CPS.
“The world we have made, as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far, creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them.”
Albert Einstein
The CPS Process
Is used when you want to enhance your natural creativity, when you want to be creative on purpose.
The diversity of approaches to the creative problem solving process that have developed since is a testimony to the power of the idea. While many models exist, the Creative Education Foundation focuses on an evolution of the Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving process called the CPS Learner’s Model.
Based on the Osborn-Parnes process, the CPS Model uses plain language and recent research. The basic structure is comprised of four stages with a total of six explicit process steps. Each step uses divergent and convergent thinking.
A Facilitator, Who wants to apply CPS, Needs to keep creative learning alerted for children by:
- Encouraging children to generate quantity of ideas
- Drive their creation to more and more usefulness
- Defer judgment
- Make connections between their ideas and the goal
- Seek novelty
- Check objectives all the way long
- Stay focused
- Encouraging children to generate quantity of ideas
- Drive their creation to more and more usefulness
- Defer judgment
- Make connections between their ideas and the goal
- Seek novelty
- Check objectives all the way long
- Stay focused