CPS (Creative Problem Solving) model

Notes from Gary Davis's Creativity is Forever - 1998 Kendall Hunt The strategy originally was formulated by Alex Osborn (1963), creator of brainstorming, founder of the Creative Education Foundation (CEF) and co-founder of a highly successful New York advertising agency. Sidney Parnes, a bright and creative person who followed Osborn as President of CEF, invested nearly 40 years teaching creativity workshops and course and thinking about the creative process. The model is usually presented as five steps, but sometimes a preliminary step is added called mess-finding which involves locating a challenge or problem to which to apply the model. The total six stages are: Mess-finding (Objective Finding) Fact-finding Problem-Finding Idea-finding Solution finding (Idea evaluation) Acceptance-finding (Idea implementation) The steps guide the creative process. The Osborne-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Process Notes from the CPSI 1998 brochure. Some suggestions for activities at the various stages:

Moodle Problem-solving styles are consistent individual differences in the ways people prefer to deal with new ideas, manage change, and respond effectively to complex, open-ended opportunities and challenges. Knowledge of style is important in education in a number of ways. It contributes to adults’ ability to work together effectively in teams and in large groups. It provides information that helps educators understand their own personal strengths and how to put them to work as effectively as possible across many tasks and challenges. It helps educators communicate more effectively with each other, but also with parents, community members, and, of course, with students. The VIEW Model Our approach to problem solving style (the VIEW model) represents and assesses three dimensions and six specific styles that are unique and important in understanding and guiding the efforts of individuals and groups to manage their creative problem solving and change management as effectively as possible.