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OTSM-TRIZ for Kids

Forthcoming training course in OTSM-TRIZ for Kids
 

Modern educational systems are built upon a model of teaching known facts, methods and algorithms to children. As a result, the children accumulate a lot of diverse knowledge and acquire abilities to deal with standard methods, techniques and tools.  However, too little attention is paid to developing those thinking skills which let children think out of the box, develop logical, abstract and creative thinking, cope with conflicts and non-typical problems. In the times of accelerated competition and growing necessity to produce new ideas continuously, such thinking skills become crucial to achieve success in life and build a preferred future. 

A mission of OTSM-TRIZ is to bridge a gap between standard education and developing power thinking skills. Developed during 20 years of research and extensive practical applications, it offers a new framework for kids education. OTSM-TRIZ for kids consists of a number of programs, methods and tools which enable children, teenagers and young adults from ages 3 to 21 to develop their creative imagination, accelerate search for new breakthrough ideas, better cope with complexity of modern world, solve non-standard problems, and considerably improve decision making.

OTSM-TRIZ is based on two components: TRIZ (Theory of Solving Inventive Problems), a breakthrough discipline developed by Genrich Altshuller, which introduces a scientifically-grounded approach to innovation and solving inventive problems; and OTSM (a General Theory of Powerful Thinking), developed by Nikolai Khomenko in cooperation with his associates under guidance by  Altshuller, which introduces a number of new models of powerful thinking and a number of tools and techniques which help considerably with development of powerful thinking skills.  

WHAT DO KIDS GET?

Many years of experience have proven that kids who were trained with the use of OTSM-TRIZ, demonstrate much stronger skills and outperform their colleagues. In general, OTSM-TRIZ helps with:

• Reducing psychological inertia

• Increasing the degree of creativity

• Decreasing fear of “non-solvable” problems      

• Decreasing fear of barriers      

• Increasing problem solving power      

• Improving memory      

• Increasing self-confidence      

• Improving communication skills      

• Improving analytical skills      

• Increasing independence      

• Increasing the ability to calmly deal with conflicts      

• Increasing the ability to ask right questions      

• Increasing the ability to make right decisions      

• Improving communication skills with adults      

• Better appreciation of life values

UNIQUE EXPERIENCE

Since 1986, OTSM-TRIZ developers and trainers have been united by the “Jonathan Livingston” project.  More than 100 books and brochures were published on new teaching methods.  20 experimental places were implemented and tested which confirmed the effectiveness of using OTSM-TRIZ for teaching kids. Training workshops and training programs were developed and delivered in Russia, China, USA, Mexico, The Netherlands, France, South Korea.

In 2006, one of the members of the Jonathan Livingston project, Tatyana Sidorchuk was awarded by a medal of the Ministry of Education of Russian Federation for outstanding achievements in developing educational science for preschoolers.

OTSM-TRIZ TRAINING

AT ICG Training and consulting we help the Jonathan Livingston project team to promote their activities and organize training workshops and programs in the Netherlands.

Forthcoming training course in OTSM-TRIZ for Kids