In this week’s issue:
(2)
News from Israel, Gila Glatter
(3)
The 6th Annual TOC for
Education International Conference
Quote
(4) Charles Franklin Kettering
Editors’
Notes
(5) Kay Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A.
Edwards
(1) TOCFE on the Move in Russia!
From Kathy Suerken
Galina Dolya
and David Higgins will teach the following TOC seminars in Russia:
Oct 25-28: A TACT seminar will be taught in Krasnodar, Russia, a new Russian
location for TOCFE. Krasnodar is
located on the Black Sea about 1000 kilometers from Moscow. Over 100 teachers are registered for this
seminar!!
Nov 1-5: A TACT, ETC seminar (facilitator training) will be taught in
Moscow Russia. The seminar is hosted
through Eureka University (by the way, ETC stands for Empowered To Change)
Nov 5-9: TACT seminar in Moscow, Russia hosted through Eureka University.
TOCFE comes
to the Ukraine (new country for us)!
December
20-22: Galina will teach the first TACT seminar
(sessions 1, 2 and 4) in her native homeland.
(2) News from Israel
Gila Glatter, Israel
Shalom to My TOCFE
Friends,
Last Thursday, our TOCFE
Members Club, gathered in Kefar-Hamakabia in Ramt-Gan, Israel for the first
meeting on the new educational year. In
September, we have our holidays, therefore we have just started regular formal
studies.
There were about 35
participants from kindergarten teachers through university teachers, from
senior members (who have been with us for 2-3 years, doing great jobs in their
educational milieu), to new members (who just finished the basic course last
summer). We meet every 6 weeks in order
to achieve our target, which is: Deepen our understanding of using TOC tools
in our classes. We believe that we
can learn from each other by sharing personal success stories, or personal
failures stories, offering new ideas and new materials to assess and test among
professional friends.
At this first meeting,
Ariela Licterman and Vardit Weisbuom, who participated in the Detroit
conference last June, lead a professional workshop with the main subject: A
new way to plan a curriculum with the cloud tool. They succeeded in activating us to find a common denominator,
in various texts and in various areas of knowledge. They did it very clearly and very systematically, with a lot of
logic, which we call common sense.
We were working very
cooperatively, in 5 groups. Each group
had 3 or 4 content texts that we had to go over, find the specific Udes, put
them in a cloud scheme, and at last try to generalize 3 clouds to a generic
cloud. Although the time was late in
the evening, we all were very self- motivated, acting with interest and joy.
Our findings were
amazing. Through the generic cloud we
were able to see the key and basic words in the subject with which we were
dealing. And even more interesting, we
could see the same key words in some other subject areas. Vardit & Ariela brought to the class texts
in geography, Bible, literature and education.
We have come to the conclusion that by this procedure, we can make up
our mind what texts we should choose for our students in order to enrich their
knowledge. They must be very clear and
focused in recognizing the problem in a specific subject as well as the
solution that follows. I would like to
bring one example making it a bit clearer:
I was in a group that
was reading a geography text; the subject was ecological environment. Through reading, we found the key words:
prosperity, welfare, comfortable, pollution, wastage, damage, change, and
conservation.
The generic cloud we
developed in our group was:
A: Have quality life
B: Be comfortable
D: Change the environment
C: Prevent damage
D': Do not change; watch the environment
We were very pleased and
proud of the clear and simple theme we came to with out of the long and
complicated texts. This cloud is the
whole story... so simple and so clear.
The solutions that were followed in the text like: recycle or
desalination were understood and discussed accordingly with a connected insight
to the two needs that we identified in our cloud.
Vardit and Ariela have
shown us how we can change our TACTICS in building a specific curriculum- to a
great STRATEGY, for many subjects.
Furthermore, we were involved and responsible for creating a good and
powerful learning plan.
We felt, once again,
that the cloud diagram is our "silver bullet" and we must practice it
according to our class syllabus and spread it in our schools and classes. Next time we’ll discuss how we can use
Danilo's procedure in building a curriculum.
Best Wishes,
Gila Glatter
Succeeding in stopping
terror, all over the world, keeping innocent people alive!
(3) The 6th Annual TOC for Education
International Conference
University
of Nottingham
Nottingham,
United Kingdom
July 8-11, 2002
See TACTics, October 12, 2001 for details at www.tocforeducation.com.
(4) “A problem
well stated is a problem half solved." —Charles Franklin Kettering
(1876-1958)
(5) Kay Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards
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of the thinking processes, lessons, announcements, and etc. by mail to: Cheryl A. Edwards,
2253 S. Hill Island Rd., Cedarville, Michigan 49719, USA. Or send hyperlink to: redwards@sault.com, or bucknek@earthlink.net.
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