TACTics Journal

A Publication for and by TOC for Education Practitioners

November 10, 2000

 

CONTENTS

NETWORKING

  (1)   TOC in Israel, Limor Winter–Kraemer

CONNECTIONS

    (2)      Write It Through the Language of TOC, Kathy Suerken

   (3)   November Schedule:  Colombia and Venezuela, Francis de Conde

    (4)     TACT Training:  Detroit, Cheryl A. Edwards

QUOTE

   (5)      Elihu Burritt

EDITORS’ NOTES

  (6)  Kay Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards

 

NETWORKING

(1)       TOC in Israel

By Limor Winter–Kraemer, Israel

 

I am responsible for TOC for Education in the north of Israel in one big city by the name of Haifa, and in many towns and villages.  (Yes, I travel a lot to beautiful places!)  I would like to share with you a workshop I gave in an Arabic village by the name Pki-in.  These days, you probably hear about all the fights we have, yet, this is not all we have.  The workshop in Pki-in was on one hand with the awareness of the problematic relationships between Arab and Jew, and on the other hand, with a deep understanding that only win–win can bring good to all of us.

 

At the workshop we worked on conflicts from different subjects:  romantic love between an Arabic girl and a Jewish boy, kids that want to stay out late, a woman that wants to go out to study and her husband does not want her to go, violence at school, and clouds from Arabic text books.

 

I do not want to go into politics; however, I just want to let you know that TOC gave me the opportunity to meet my neighbors and to create with them a good and close dialogue.  The students wrote down their clouds, etc., so now more people can see their reality vs. what they assume about it.  I know that even if it is a small impact… it has an impact.

 

CONNECTIONS

(2)        Write It Through the Language of TOC

From Kathy Suerken

 

On December 4, Galina Dolya will be a plenary speaker at the 10th International session of "Culture of Peace, Human Rights- Content and Methods of Education” to be held in Moscow, Russia.  Her session is entitled: "Don't War It, Write It Through the Language of TOC."

 

The conference, sponsored by the Office of the Commissioner on Human Rights in the Russian Federation, the Moscow Committee of Education, the Moscow School of Human Rights, and the International Society for Human Rights, is expected to attract participants from neighboring countries.

 

Conference trainings are designed to prepare secondary school teachers, university professors, social workers and managers of educational institutions in human rights, civic, democracy and peace education.  In addition to her plenary presentation, Galina will be conducting a workshop on the cloud.

 

(3)  November Schedule:  Colombia and Venezuela

From Francis de Conde, TOCFE Venezuela, South America

 

In Colombia:

Audience:                   TOC business congress.

Date:                   November 8 (morning)

Location:                   Colombia City, Bogotá, Bogotá Plaza Hotel

Presenter: Francis de Conde, e-mail:  francismejia@cantv.net

 

Audience:                   Group of Teachers

Date:                   November 8 (3:00 p.m.)

Location:                   Colombia. City, Bogotá, Bogotá Plaza Hotel

Presenter:                   Francis Mejia , e-mail:  francismejia@cantv.net

                   Rafael Conde, e-mail:  conderafael@cantv.net

 

In Venezuela :

Audience: Unidad Educativa Grancolombia: 40 teachers (covering 500 children)

Date:                   Fridays of November

Location:      Caracas Venezuela

Presenters:          Javier Arevalo, Rafael Conde, email: conderafael@cantv.net

 

(4)       TACT Training:  Detroit

Date:            December 8, 9 and 10, 2000

Facilitator:          Cheryl A. Edwards

 

This class is for new to TOCFE educators or TOCFE educators who would like an upgrade to see the new materials and refresh their TOC skills.  Anyone interested in attending this class or knows someone who might be interested, can contact Cheryl for more information at <redwards@sault.com> or 906.484.6808.

 

QUOTE

(5)        "All that I have accomplished has been by that plodding, patient, perservering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by patricle, thought by thought, fact by fact." —Elihu Burritt

 

EDITORS’ NOTES

(6)        Kay Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards

Courage comes in many forms… thanks, Limor, for contributing to this week's TACTics.  To the rest of our TOCFE, send us your courageous utilizations, successful applications, humorous connections, favorite quotes, worthy news, and flying pigs.  Send them by mail to Cheryl A. Edwards, 2253 S. Hill Island Rd., Cedarville, MI 49719, USA.  Or, send hyperlink to <redwards@sault.com> or <bucknek@resa.net.