CONNECTIONS
(1) Precious
Stones/Netherlands Update, Eleanor May-Brenneker, Netherlands
(2) Update
from Israel, Gila Glatter, Israel
(3) Want
Ad, Denise Meyer, USA
QUOTE
(4) Anonymous
EDITORS’
NOTES
(5) Kay
Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards
(1) Precious Stones/Netherlands
Update
By Eleanor May-Brenneker, MA, Netherlands
Have you ever actually
found some precious or semi-precious stones on one of your travels? It’s easy, just look (or listen) for them
and they’ll come to you. Then, pick
them up and pocket them to share their beauty with others. Right now I’ve three
to show you:
1. At the world EXPO 2000 in Hanover a catchy
tune caught my ear in the Australian Pavilion.
When I listened to the lyrics I realised they could have been written
with the fledgling TOCFE in the Netherlands in mind: “We are young, we are
tomorrow, so much to learn, so much to say…” I’ll soon be reporting on how
much we have to say!
2. Travelling back to UK through Belgium, I
saw a motor way billboard poster to encourage drivers to walk, cycle or use public
transport. It could have been designed
for TOCFE: “You can also do it like this (the TOC way). You’ll get there more easily.”
3.
Back home I heard an interview on Auntie Beep (BBC) with Adrian Nichols, the
free-flight world record holder. When
asked if he ever felt he was taking a risk, he said, “The greatest risk one
can run in life is NOT to seize an opportunity and live it!”
With
these thoughts in mind, I would like to share the achievements of IOs with the
young, active TOCFE organisation in The Netherlands.
We
convened on 10th Sept. 2000 in the centre of the Lowlands for a
day’s Ambitious Target Update and to make a PrT for a new TACT course to be
held in Jan. 2001. The Target, set at
the end of the 1st TACT course is:
We get TOCFE/NL successfully off the ground in our country. So far:
• The steering group has
appointed a coordinator in the person of Nel Hofmeester, and other group
members have taken on specific tasks,
• The texts of the 5 session-manuals have
been translated into Dutch by some of our members, and I’m very grateful to
them. The lay out is being worked on by
a TOC friend (AGI) and will be ready this month. The task of executing copying the manuals is taken on by one
TOCFE group member,
• A new TACT course is being organised to run
from 8-12 Jan. 2001 at the University of Utrecht. The target group is educators working in secondary and higher
education, including those who train teachers.
A suitable location for this course is organised, and cucumbers are
listed. A flyer and registration form
has been designed to distribute in target group environments. Every group member is canvassing for
candidates for TACT courses, now that the flyer is ready,
• One group member, Geerte van de Groep, is
presenting a buy-in at a 2-day Montessori conference on 5 & 6 Oct. 2000 and
hopes to enlist some course candidates.
• An end-of-course evaluation form is
designed and a follow up meeting for our TOCFE/NL is being held on 8th
Oct. 2000 to check all details covered in the PrT and mentioned in the minutes
of the previous meeting.
• TOCFE certified teachers are being trained
to train others, also in Jan. 2000. (HTT course).
• New TACT courses are being planned and PrTs
for those are being submitted by HTT candidates. HTT candidates will be given the opportunity to demonstrate that
they can apply the TACT skills.
• Due to sudden illness of an appointed
specialist, I was asked, on the spur of the moment, to run a 2-day study skills
course for 13-year-old dyslexics. I took on the challenge, working out a
programme using TOC tools and I set time aside in the programme to teach the
pupils a simple “motivation tree,” a positive branch. They loved it and the parents commented later on how brilliant
that tree was! One parent wrote to me:
“My child is now much more confident and highly motivated!”
TOCFE/NL
is alive and kicking! Watch this
space! Our best wishes to you all,
wherever you are, whatever you do to spread the TOC word!
(2) Update from Israel
From
Gila Glatter, Israel
I'm working
with Rami on improving the teaching of the Transition Tree. We have some insight about the way the
workbook should be written. We are
hoping to have a better guide to empower ourselves and students in achieving
missions. We have worked on the order
we should follow, in order to get a Logic Tree and do it much easier than we
are doing it now. I have a good
feeling that we have reached a breakthrough!
(3) Want Ad
From
Denise Meyer, California, USA
I am working
on a project to train English teachers in one of my high schools to use the
cloud in their curriculum. If anyone in
the TACTics family has examples from high school literature, please
email me: Denimeyer@aol.com or publish it in TACTics.
(4) The
quote this week is sent to us from Bev Brown, Ohio, USA.
“Great people talk about ideas,
average people talk about things, small people talk about people.” —Anonymous
(5) Kay
Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards
Thanks
to all for your contributions to TACTics this week. If you would like to share, don’t hesitate to do so. Send your contributions 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