TRIZ Pedagogy Network

Background

TRIZ Pedagogy, i.e. TRIZ in the secondary education of young people, is a strongly upcoming new branch of TRIZ practices. At the TRIZ-Fest 2019 in Heilbronn, the annual MATRIZ meeting, there was a whole section on that theme and even made the decision, concentrate the further MATRIZ efforts in three directions, “classical TRIZ”, “TRIZ and Business”, and “TRIZ Pedagogy”.

We started this web page to collect and inform about this (not very) new direction of TRIZ practices and the activities going on there.

A not at all complete survey

TRIZFest Pedagogy 2022

TA Teachers

From the Introduction:

The Thinking Approach (TA) teacher is the one interested in simultaneous development of thinking and subject matter skills of learners. Thinking skills are developed by learning to apply models that originate from the General Theory of Powerful Thinking (OTSM) based on the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) to construct tools for solving specific problems in various disciplines.

It is an ongoing project with partners from several EU countries.
http://www.ta-teachers.eu/

They organise a ‘'’TA Teachers Conference Series’’’ http://www.ta-teachers.eu/conferences

2012, Riga: Bringing Creativity and Thinking into the Educational Process
2014, Riga: Creativity and Thinking Skills in Learning, Teaching and Management
2016, Riga: Thinking as a Key Competence: Implications for Learning, Teaching and Management
2018, Riga: Learning to Teach Thinking
2020, Online: Assessment for Teaching Thinking
2022, Online: Towards Thinking Curriculum

The TRIZ Developers Summit Cup

The TRIZ Developers Summit Cup competition is an annually offered international competition on TRIZ challenges for children, students and teachers. It starts every year in October, projects can be submitted in digital form until a deadline in March. The final round is organized at the annual TRIZ Developers Summit. The competition offers tasks in different nominations (Inventive activity, fantasizing, TRIZ tools, research, TRIZ videos) for different age categories (8-10 years, 11-14 years, 15-17 years, students).

The competition was established in 2014 and has been offered annually since then. The materials and further notes on implementation and results are available in Russian on the website of the competition.

The main website (in Russian)
The Archive of the Contest (in Russian)
German versions for 2019/20 and 2020/21
English versions of the competition
- 2014/15
- 2019/20

Within the OpenDiscovery project since 2019 we started to recompile the material of the contest as Open Source LaTeX versions and provide a German translation.

OTSM-TRIZ in Education. The Jonathan Livingston Project.

The Jonathan Livingston Project
- https://www.jlproj.org/this_bibl_e/present_Nesterenko_en.pdf
https://otsm-triz.org/en - Link “OTSM-TRIZ education”

Education for a New Era

The Site of Anatoli Gin and Mark Barkan (in Russian)

Typical program for children aged 8-10 years (in Russian)

Additional material and activities

Диагностика развития изобретательского мышления на основе методов ТРИЗ (Diagnostics of Inventive Thinking based on TRIZ methods) - work by Natalja Rubina on obtaining the title of a TRIZ Master (2013)
Christoph Dobrusskin (Philips, Eindhoven) organized several TRIZ Remote Workshops (2016, 2017, 2019, another is planned for 2020). This concept, which currently addresses only adult development teams, is also being ramped up for children. Christoph is responsible for secondary level TRIZ in the MATRIZ Board, the International TRIZ Association.
- European TRIZ Remote-Workshop 2019 (in German)

More about that at http://www.leipzig-netz.de/index.php/MINT.TRIZCup (in German, with links to sites in Russian).

Books:

V. Petrov and P. Amnuel: Adventures of Alice and Alik. (In Russian) Published 2019 in Moscow.
Anatoly Gin, Mark Barkan: TRIZ Pedagogy.
- Search for “анатолий гин триз” for Russian-language literature
Ioury Belski: Educating the Edisons of the 21st Century: Embedding tools of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) into the engineering curriculum. Final Report 2019.
- https://ltr.edu.au/resources/FS16-0271_FinalReport_Edisons_Belski_2019.pdf