  The current graduate school education system has largely been focusing on
producing better learners and problem solvers. The rise of problem based
learning approaches are testimonial to the importance of such skills at all
levels of education from early childhood to graduate school level. However,
most of the programs so far have focused primarily on producing better problem
solvers neglecting problem finding at large. Problem finding, an important
skill is a subset and first step in creative problem solving. Most studies on
problem finding skills have only focused on industries and corporations for
training employees to think out of the box for innovative product design and
development. At school or university level, students are generally given a
well-defined problem in most Problem Based Learning (PBL) scenarios and problem
discovery or how to deal with ill-structured problems is mostly ignored. In
this study, we present the Nitobe School Program and discuss our unique
curriculum to teach problem finding in graduate school education. We show how
introducing problem finding at graduate level increases student's ability to
comprehend difficult and wicked problems in a team based learning environment.
Moreover, we present how it influences creativity in graduate students
resulting in better problem solvers.
