TACTics Journal

A Publication for and by TOC for Education Practitioners

June 29, 2001

 

This Week’s Issue:

Connections 

  (1)   Feedback from 5th International TOCFE Conference Participants

Editor’s Notes

(2)         Kay Buckner-Seal

 

CONNECTIONS

(1)  Feedback from 5th International TOCFE Conference Participants

 

TOC:  God’s Gift for Education

Truly, TOC for Education is God’s marvelous gift to mankind.  And, I am one of the lucky recipients of this amazing grace.  Of the five international TOCFE Conferences, this one held in Detroit, Michigan on June 25-28, 2001 is the second I have participated in.  The international implementation of TOCFE attempted in recent years, presented in Monterrey, Mexico last year has grown in impressive quality and proportion in just a year’s time isn’t that a great feat!

 

At Detroit, the facilitator for the elementary grades teachers, Khaw Choon Ean, has proven to be Malaysia’s pride with her personally prepared, proven and tested teaching modules on how to guide learners to become responsible decision makers and to understand academic content better through TOC skills and tools.  This intrinsic responsibility built in the learners while young will surely go al long way toward their personal growth, especially in their socio-emotional development.  The fun, enthusiasm, and the participant’s total involvement in running the modules by groups to show how three TOCFE tools: the cloud, the negative branch, and the ambitious target are introduced in teacher training programs, culminating in peer demonstration lessons, and showing the said tools applied in actual classroom situations will long linger in my memory till the same is experienced and replicated back home in our country, The Philippines. 

 

I do look forward very excitedly to more and more international TOCFE conferences to enable me and our group to savor and share with others how TOCFE makes a difference in education worldwide. 

 

God Bless you Eliyahu and Kathy, their respective families and all involved in TOCFE.  May their tribe increase! —Lourdes “Ding” Visaya, Education Supervisor, Manila, Philippines

 

 

Detroit is a wonderful city to visit and see.  I am very grateful and thankful to our Assistant Schools Division Superintendent, Dr. Nora M. Uy, the head of the delegation (TOCFE, Makati Philippines) for including me as one of the delegates to this prestigious TOCFE conference.  I am also thankful to TOCFE, USA for giving us the chance to stay at the Northfield Hilton which the atmosphere is very nice. 

 

The 4-day sessions enriched my experiences on the insights and ideas shared by our energetic lecturer, Rami, and active members of the group.” —Flora V. Peraltn, Makati Delegate

 

 

The 5th Conference presented us a really holistic approach of using TOC tools through different applications from administrators to students.  TOC works for everybody in an educational system.” — Ma. Asuncíon Montes, Puebla, Mexico

 

 

On Socratic Questions in TOCFE:

The quality of the response you receive, reflects the quality of question asked.” —Eleanor May-Brenneker, Director of TOCFE, Netherlands

 

 

Detroit:  My Third TOC International Conference

This is my third time joining the TOC International Conference.  Each time I attend it, the more I learn that I have more to know about TOC. 

 

In the Philippines, we consider TOCFE an advocacy, a way of life with the over riding necessary condition that no one gets hurt by one’s actions.  The Philippines TOCFE licensees, therefore, belong to a movement aiming to bring a difference in our daily life— a constraint-free one.

 

We are very thankful to Eli Goldratt for his TOC and Kathy for the inspiration she brings to Filipinos to pursue our dream for education to have students who can decide for themselves wisely and independently.” — Nora M. Uy, Makati TOCFE Coordinator, Philippines

 

 

“The teacher has the key for changing the disabled child’s future:  Believe in the child.” —Ariela Lichterman, Israel

 

 

Impression:

Attending this 5th TOCFE International Conference is a great honor and privilege considering that this training provides delegates with the necessary tool for a process of ongoing improvement in ones thinking and decision making in life.  Mr. Rami’s presentation and clear explanations on how to construct the cloud, negative branch, cause effect design and prerequisite tree to resolve conflict were explicitly clarified and have equipped me with confidence to utilize them in my place of work.  His lectures contributed a lot in polishing facilitation skills and designing tools to improve the system.  I came to realize that there is a lot more to learn on analyzing and improving a system through the Theory of Constraints. 

 

More laurel to the organizers and facilitators.  May there be more training of this kind.  More power and God speed.” — Mrs. Yolanda B. Casnpang, Education Supervisor I, Makati City, NCR, Philippines

 

 

EDITOR’S NOTES

(2)        From Kay Buckner-Seal

 

Cheryl has used the following quote in her correspondence to the team of people who worked closely with her to make the 5th Annual TOCFE International Conference/First Annual TOCFE International Student’s Conference a reality:

 

“Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood, but everyone has something to give.” — Barbara Bush

 

Well, Cheryl, your team has worked diligently to not only make this conference a reality but a huge success!  Congratulations to all of you for making this conference one of the best ever. 

 

Look forward to more feedback from Cheryl, Kathy and other conference attendees in next week’s TACTics.  If you would like to share a connection, an experience, a wish, or a thought, send by mail to Cheryl A. Edwards, 2253 S. Hill Island Rd., Cedarville, MI 49719, USA.  Or, send hyperlink to <redwards@sault.com> or <bucknek@earthlink.net.

 

 

 

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