This Week’s Issue:
“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
“The quality of the response you receive,
reflects the quality of question asked.” —Eleanor May-Brenneker, Director of
TOCFE, Netherlands
“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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