TACTics Journal

November 26,1999

"QUOTES..."

This week's quote is a favorite quote from Kathy; maybe because it is a QUESTION!

"To love what you do and know that it matters- what could be more fun?"
- K. Mansfield

Dear TOCFE Family,
This week we are celebrating a national holiday (Thanksgiving) in USA. Because of my TOCFE family, the answer to the above question for me is one that I so much hope that you share. I am very, very THANKFUL for all of you.
Kathy

POOGI POOL

Rami Question # 7
B- Enjoy company
D- Invite friends over
Is the following statement a suitable assumption for B-D?
"I don't like to be alone."

Responses to Rami's Question #7

From Denise Meyer:
I hesitated to answer because I don't know if it's always so black and white as to "is this a good assumptions or not". Maybe for some students it's good enough to give them an injection such as, I can "not be alone" without inviting my friends over. I could go to their house. But logically, according to the rules of logic, it probably isn't correct because in essence it really just talks about what the person with the assumption means by enjoying company. It really just clarifies the need. It doesn't specify the connection between B and D is necessary. A 'logical' assumption would be that "I enjoy my friends company' or "I can't enjoy anyone else's company."

Rev. Anthony J. Ranada, SVD:
My usual way to check is to say it this way: "In order to enjoy company, I must invite friends over because I don't like to be alone." So my intuition says it makes sense, that B is a need that D is a want; and B as a need is the aim or objective of D. "I don't like to be alone" seems to me one of the suitable assumptions for B-D but I would like to phrase it more exactly as "I don't like SOMETIMES to be alone".

I also like to be alone sometimes. Being alone has been spiritually good for me since I could reflect while viewing the sunrise from behind a volcano within a volcano. Like when the first generation of TOCFE-Philippines had our HTT-MSW in Tagaytay City last November 6-10 1998. I was alone in the human sense but those times I enjoyed the company of God in prayer (this may be unctuous for some). I was alone but not lonely. And I enjoyed company without physical evidence of it, while seeming to be all alone! But at other times, I just want to be alone period!

Look for the answer to Rami's Question #7 in next week's TACTics!

ELEMENTARY/SECONDARY TACTICS

Re: TACTics Journal November 19, 1999, Using TOC in Content Area Classes From Jackie Trimble, Seattle, Washington USA

Message:
"I want to thank Jackie Trimble for her contribution. I firmly believe that curriculum will be the most effective way to go with TOC. Even though I am teaching it through conflict resolution programs, my biggest obstacle is the stress being put on teachers to address 'accountabilities' in terms of curriculum. Teachers feel so pressured to teach so that students will perform better on tests, that they cannot fit in the conflict resolution skills. That's why the cloud on D: Teach TOC and D': Teach curriculum has been beautifully broken by Jackie in her literature lesson. I have written before that I want more curriculum examples and with Jackie's permission, hers will become part of my repertoire when I do presentations.
Thank you, Jackie."
-Denise Meyer

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