TACTics
Journal
A Publication for and by TOC
for Education Practitioners
November 8, 2002
In this week’s issue:
Connections
(1) Creating Thinking Schools, Linda Trapnell
(2) TOCFE Ecuador, Sandra Fierro
(3) TOCFE Ecuador (English
Translation)
Editor’s Notes
(4) Kay Buckner-Seal
CONNECTIONS
(1) Creating Thinking Schools
From Linda Trapnell, Head
Teacher, United Kingdom
Hi Cheryl!
Is there anything going on over
here? Well yes there is!
I've done two presentations to
schools in Yorkshire and one school is
adopting clouds as their way of
resolving conflict. They are very keen to get
into the curriculum areas; so,
I'm going to do some demonstration lessons
and a school assembly there
later this month.
Tomorrow I'm doing a full day
Cloud training for a whole school staff.
Two weeks ago I was asked to do
a keynote speech at the National
Association for Head Teachers
Primary Conference in Warwick and that
went very well (250 Head
Teachers) with excellent feedback. Some schools
in a difficult area of Sheffield
want me to do some work on TOC with them.
My talk was entitled,
"Creating the Thinking School."
As a result of the Warwick
Conference, I've been asked to contribute an
article under the same title
for the NAHT magazine, which is distributed
nationwide to schools. I've
also been devising training programmes for the
midday supervisors in schools
who have supervised lunchtimes and these are
proving very popular.
The segment of this course,
which is causing the most interest, is… the
Cloud! Many schools are asking
for more details.
I hope to visit a Secondary
school in the Spring term to look at working with
older children in Curriculum
areas. You can see things are moving, hence the
reason why I've not been in
touch—I'm so busy. Is there a cloud in that?
I'll try and keep you up to
date.
(2) TOCFE Ecuador
From Sandra Fierro, Ecuador
Queridos Amigos,
Tengo la necesidad de agradecer
de manera profunda y sincera los
conocimientos adquiridos en el
seminario de Bogotá. Creo que muchas dudas
que tenía se evaporaron y se
transformaron en objetivos intermedios para mi
experiencia vital con las
herramientas de TOCFE. Aparte de que la
organización del equipo
coordinador fue excelente y con resultados
efectivos, la participación de
l@s compañer@s que asistieron fue muy
motivante y motivadora. Hubo
espacios en que las preguntas del público y las
experiencias que compartieron
con nosotros quienes ya están más
familiarizados con TOC
contribuyeron a ampliar nuestra visión de todo lo que
se puede hacer. Yo he sentido
de manera personal los beneficios en mi
trabajo de aula, tanto en los
contenidos curriculares como en los
comportamientos de mis alumnos,
y ello me impulsó a hacer un primer taller
con los profesores de mi
colegio (Antares, de San Rafael, Quito, Ecuador)
para compartir mis experiencias
y lo que aprendí. Pronto enviaré la noticia y
algunos de los trabajos que
están haciendo los profesores de distintos
niveles con las herramientas.
Con cariño
Sandra Fierro
TOCFE Ecuador
(3) TOCFE Ecuador (English
Translation).From
http://babel.altavista.com/tr
Dear Friends,
I have the necessity to thank
in a deep and sincere way the knowledge
acquired in the seminary of
Bogota. I believe that many clouds were
evaporated and were transformed
into intermediate objectives as a result of
my important experience with
the TOCFE tools. Aside from which, the
coordinator was excellent and
had effective results. The participation of
Las Compañeas that attended was
very motivating. There were times in
which the questions from the
public and the experiences that they shared
with us, who already are more
familiar with TOC, contributed to extending
our vision of everything that
it is possible. I have personally felt the
benefits in my classroom, as
much in the curricular contents as well as in the
behaviors of my students, and
it compelled me to contact the professors at
my school (Antares of San
Rafael, Quito, Ecuador) to share my experiences
and what I have learned. Soon I
will send the news and some of the works
that the professors are doing
at different levels with the tools.
With affection,
Sandra Fierro
TOCFE Ecuador
EDITOR’S NOTES
(4) Kay Buckner-Seal
We would like to thank Linda
Trapnell and Sandra Fierro for contributing to
this week’s TACTics for it is
the interests and experiences of our TOCFE
practitioners that make our
newsletter.
With the help of the website: http://babel.altavista.com/tr, I made an
humble attempt to create an
accurate translation of Sandra Fierro’s article
for our English speaking
readers. Sandra, if the translation is no where near
your intent of meaning, please
feel free to send the more exact translation
to me, which we will publish in
next week’s TACTics.
We encourage all to share with
us. 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.