TACTics
Journal
A Publication for and by TOC
for Education Practitioners
November 1, 2002
In this week’s issue:
Connections
(1) News from Israel, Limor Kramer
Networking
(2) An Offer You Won’t Want to
Refuse, Gila
Glatter
Editors’ Notes
(3) Kay Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A.
Edwards
CONNECTIONS
(1) News from Israel
From Gila Glatter and Limor
Winter-Kraemer, Israel
Last week we had our first TOC
club meeting of the new school year in Tel-Aviv.
More than 60 people, from all
over the country, attended.
The “stars” of the first part
of the evening were the new teachers, who had
just finished their TOC
studies, but nevertheless—already had application
stories, of how they have been
using TOC tools in their classes.
At the second part of the
meeting Gila Glatter, the Israeli Branch Director,
presented a new workbook that
was written by Nava Weiss and Tali Malek,
about the IF- THEN thinking
process for the 5-8 year olds. The workbook
is very beautiful and
impressive, of high quality, colorful and the workbook
uses the spoken language that
kids can easily relate to. The examples are
taken from everyday life
stories of this age: relationship with parents,
brothers/sisters and friends.
This workbook offers the children a simply
constructed tool, which enables
them to express their frustration and
dissatisfaction in the above
relationships, in a very logical and clear way,
thus creating a better and more
sophisticated dialogue with their immediate
environment. This year we offer
open workshops and dedicated workshops.
The open workshops are for
beginners and advanced learners and for a combined
group of education and business
people.
We also have a TOC club at the
northern part of the country; we meet once
a month for an upgrade studying
session and for mutual fun together. In our
last meeting we used the TP to
analyze the subject of “Why is it difficult
for a person to present himself
in front of a new audience?” we worked on
inner conflicts like: “To talk
highly about myself / Do not talk too highly
about myself” and “Say what I
want / Say what they want to hear/ etc.
As a result of this work we:
1. Learned about ourselves
2. Understand better how to use
the TP
3. Do a better job presenting
ourselves in front of new people.
So, as you understand, between
Sharon, Arafat and Bush—we are still
optimistic —no matter what!
NETWORKING
(2) An Offer You Won’t Want to Refuse
From Gila Glatter, TOCFE
Director Israel
Dear TACTics Readers,
Shalom to you! I have just
completed an English translation of one our very
good TOC workbooks: Think Before
You Act: Thinking through
Consequences, for ages 8-12
written by Nava Weiss and Tali Malek.
It is part of a series of TOC
booklets that nurture methodical and creative
thinking based on the Theory of
Constraints.
Thinking for a Change Series:
· Solving Everyday Conflicts: Winners Only!
Ages 5 - 8
Ages 8 – 12
Ages 10 – 15
· The Way of Achieving a Target
Ages 8 – 12.Ages 10 – 15
· Think Before You Act: Thinking of Consequences
Ages 5 – 8
Ages 8 – 12
If you think it might be useful
for you, we will be happy to share this
booklet. If you would like to
have an e-mail version, which can be opened in
Acrobat Reader, please contact
me at glatter@inter.net.il
and I will email
you a copy. We would also
appreciate knowing what you think about it.
Sincerely,
Gila
EDITORS’ NOTES
(3) Kay Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A.
Edwards
Think Before You Act: Thinking
through Consequences sounds like a
booklet that every child in the
world could use! I can’t wait to get a copy!
To all of our TOCFE family,
please take the time to request a copy from Gila.
Then, send us feedback on the
product. We would love to share your
responses in TACTics.
Send your responses,
applications 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
cedwards@cedarville.net or
bucknek@earthlink.net.