TACTics Journal

October 1, 1999

 

 

NETWORKING

 

Working Hard Exercising Minds

by Gila Glatter, Director, Israel

In an attempt to get our interested TOCFED people together we have established a TOCFED club.  The Club meets every 6 weeks with the purpose of keeping in touch and being able to talk the TOC language with other educators.  Thirty TOC educators from a variety of educational organizations and positions were on hand October 7, 1999 in Ramt-Gan to celebrate our first meeting by working hard exercising minds.  Our next meeting is scheduled for November 18, 1999.

 

News from the Philippines

by Marcia Hutchinson, Director, Philippines

We now have 416 graduates of the TACTS courses in the Philippines.  Makati City and Manila City just finished another series of courses this past weekend.

We have had some delays of meetings due to floods and other situations.

 

 

WHO’S WHO IN TOCFE

Marcia Hutchinson, Director, Philippines

Marcia Hutchinson holds a BS in Exercise Science (AKA Physical Education) with a teaching concentration as well as a Master’s Degree in Counseling  She has been involved in education for 17 years.

 

During four years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger, West Africa she taught in the Niger Public school system, trained Peace Corps Volunteers in teaching methodologies, worked for the Ministry of Education in Niger and helped write a Physical Education Curriculum for pre-kinder to university level.  She coached the International Women’s Basketball team and worked as a liaison for the Ministry of Education and Peace Corps Niger.

 

Marcia has taught in Ecuador, South America, and for ten years in the Los Angeles Unified School District.  In Los Angeles, she served as a Physical Education Teacher, a Special Education Teacher, GATE Coordinator, TOC Peer Mediation Coordinator, College Awareness Coordinator, Middle School Counselor, and staff development facilitator.  She also worked with the Psychiatric Social Worker in a suicide intervention/prevention program and as a counselor for IMPACT, a drug prevention/intervention program.

 

Marcia served as an elected faculty member of the Shared Decision-Making Counsels at Olive Vista Middle School and at Stevenson Middle School.  At Stevenson she was a member of the textbook review committee and on the committee for addressing the re-configuration and decentralization plan of the Los Angeles Unified School District as it pertained to local school issues.  She was also a co-representative for the United Teachers of Los Angeles (Teacher's union).

 

Marcia is a Jonah and has been teaching TACT Seminars to educators from pre-kinder up to university levels for four years.  During the past year she has been working with the Philippines Department of Education to bring the Theory of Constraints Thinking Processes into the education system there.  There are to date, 416 graduates of the TACT Seminar and 52 graduates of the HTT Seminar.

 

 

POOGI Pool

 

Rami QUIZ NO.5:

Is the following connection from a NBR written properly? 

 

If [The student doesn’t know the material for the test.] and (in a banana) if [The student doesn’t learn in class or at home.] then [There is a high chance that the

student fails the test.]

 

Send all answers to:  baughca @aol.com  and/or  bucknek@resa.net

Or to:   Cheryl A. Baugh

27731 Lathrup Blvd.

Lathrup Village,MI 48076  USA

 

 

Quotes...

 

Enjoy this quote as only a member of the TOCFE family could!

“If you can want, you can need.  If you can need, you can care.  And, if you can care, you can love.”  —Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, “If You Can Want,” 18 Greatest Hits by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.