Mexico
Congratulations to our newest TOC facilitators in Monterrey, Mexico.
Alejandrina Gonzalez de Garza and Marina Rodriguez recently completed a
facilitator training for 8 teachers who work in the department of education
for the state of Nuevo Leon. Their job is to provide staff development for
teachers.
Michigan
Larry Till's recent presentation to 22 faculty members of St. Clair
Community College was so successful that St. Clair is now trying to organize
a TOC summer workshop.
California
One of many presentations by Denise Meyer this month is at Cal State
University to a group of potential school administrators who are studying
Education Leadership.
WHO'S WHO IN TOC FOR EDUCATION
Greetings from Mexico
By Alejandrina Gonzalez, TOC for Education Director-Mexico
I studied to be a teacher, studied two more years for a degree in family counseling, and then earned my masters degree in family counseling. Other courses of study have included child development, adolescent development, marriage preparation, marriage, sexual education, the will education, faith education and Theology and the Bible. All of the work that I have developed since my studies has been in social labor, mainly in the Catholic religion. In the field of education, I have taught people of all ages, including businessmen. I have also been a school principal.
I have worked with many different types of theories, but they all tell you what is right, not what is wrong. What I like most about TOC is that I can find a concrete way of applying all the theoretical things I've studied. T
he difference between courses I have taught and TOC is that with TOC I can see that people can find a way to go on, to work out their problems. You can see in their faces a new perspective of life; you can see some hope in the midst of their every day conflicts.
The last experience we had was in a program that was given to teachers in Mexico. One student's mother was very concerned because her little girl didn't like her teacher at all. She suggested to the school that they look at the TOC program. The school accepted. After the second session, the mother asked her daughter how everything was going with her teacher. The girl answered her mother: "I think that this teacher is not the one we had. I think they have changed her for the good teacher, her sister." The teacher had a sister that looked very much like her, so the little girl thought that the new teacher was the sister of the old teacher, the new teacher was the good one.
This is the reason we are working with TOC for Education. We can see
positive changes in a short amount of time. I am certain that TOC can change
the world.
POOGI POOL
We know everyone is busy and therefore thought we would repeat the Rami
Question # 7 so more would have a chance to put their thinking to print and
be able to contribute to TACTics.
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."
TOCFE NETWORKING
Trimming the Negative Branch to a Great Suggestion
In using the Negative branch with someone it is recommended that you do not take a solution to the "inventor" but instead show your NBr's and wait for the inventor to trim it. Here is yet more proof that the Theory of Constraints works in authentic situations.
Father Tony Ranada from the Philippines suggested (TACTics Journal 11/12/99) we compile a list of names and pertinent information of TOC for Education. The NBr: The right to privacy may be violated. His Initial thoughts were, "Make it voluntary!" It need not be accessible to all but for those with specific purposes. Fr. Ranada also agrees to volunteer his personal information to anyone who may want to share ideas with him in using TOC in his areas of expertise.
What are your thoughts? Will Fr. Ranada's solution trim our NBr? Let's
continue this discussion.
ELEMENTARY/SECONDARY TACTICS
Using TOC in Content Area Classes
From Jackie Trimble, Seattle, Washington USA
Following is a lesson I used in my 7th grade class. I used the cloud in teaching a story by O. Henry entitled "After Twenty Years". The story line is as follows:
Silky Bob tells a curious policeman that he is waiting at a street corner for his best chum, Jimmy Wells. They were meeting at a predetermined spot and the time was set up twenty years ago. Shortly after the police officer leaves, another man, who is bundled up for the cold, approaches. Silky says, "Hello, Jimmy" and the man answers. They talk for a moment then proceed down the street to further discuss old times. Silky turns to Jimmy, in the street light only; to discover that it isn't really his friend and is arrested for being wanted in Chicago. The arresting officer gives him a note from his friend, Jimmy. As it turns out, Jimmy was the first police officer he had talked to. He didn't have the heart to arrest his old chum so he sent someone else to do it.
We discussed what conflict existed in this story and the students decided on
Jimmy's internal conflict:
D - Arrest my dear friend
D' - Do not arrest my dear friend
B - Uphold duty as officer
C - Stay true to my friend
A - Be true to self
Assumptions:
In order to uphold duty, he must arrest friend because:
1. He has sworn to uphold the law.
2. It is his duty to citizens.
3. He would lose his job or get arrested if he didn't.
4. It is what is right.
5. He must be true to his beliefs- upholding law, honestly.
In order to stay true to his friend, he must not arrest his friend because:
1. Their history goes back a long way.
2. His friend will feel betrayed.
3. His friend may go to jail.
4. He may lose a best friend.
5. He must be true to his beliefs- don't hurt friends.
After much discussion and no clear solution, we tried a negative branch that started with: He must be true to his beliefs, with a branch for: Be loyal to friends and another for: Uphold the law.
We decided that he actually broke the cloud on both sides since he was true
to his beliefs. He upheld the law and he had someone else arrest his friend,
so he was, in a way, loyal to Silky Bob. He didn't directly hurt Bob. The
students saw this as a good solution and related it to events in their lives.
In fact, a girl came to me later in the week to report that one of her
friends had been smoking pot that morning. She didn't want her friend to get
in trouble, but she was concerned for her friend's health and safety. How
quickly they can use the TOC tools in their own conflicts!
"QUOTES..."
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts." -Benjamin Disraeli
A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
TOC for Education Family,
This week's TACTics Journal provides several opportunities for you to
respond. Won't you please take the time and share your thoughts, ideas and
questions with us?
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