TACTics Journal
A Publication for and by TOC for Education Practitioners
In this week’s issue:
Connections
(1)
TOCFE Arrives in
(2)
Announcing a New Location for TOCFE Resources, Cal Haliburton
Editors’ Notes
(3)
Kay Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards
CONNECTIONS
(1) TOCFE Arrives in
By
Khaw Choon Ean, TOCFE
Director for
Anyong Haseyo!
(Greetings in Korean)
As
the plane taxied on the runway of
had this sense of disbelief that it was really happening.
It was
morning, and the area looked misty and
calm just like its nickname, “Land of
the Morning Calm.” Ah, but that is before you are greeted
by the concrete
jungle in the city, the traffic and the
men in business suits!
I
had been to
airport; but memories were vague except
that I had enjoyed the national
favourite vegetable dish, Kim
Chi! Here I was, waiting at the airport for
people I had never met and clutching on
to phone numbers and my mobile
phone that I found couldn’t work in
enough Korean, at some point I was
struck by a wave of panic when my pickup
contact did not arrive until almost 2
hours later. Traffic Jam!
Negotiations
with
KTOC
Consulting, a company that had e-mailed me to extend an invitation.
that we had TOC For Education, they wanted to know more.
Setting an
Ambitious
Target, e-mails and phone calls later, I received an invitation that
came with a return air ticket, accommodations, and a slot
to speak at their
annual TOC Conference for business
which featured Dr. Eli Goldratt as the
keynote speaker this year.
There
were about 150 all-male CEOs, businessmen and university academia
who came from different cities in
be Ministry of Education (MOE) people at the conference
and I had
requested for the MOE to be invited but
there were some governmental
upheavals at that time that prevented
their attendance. I had asked KTOC
what they wanted to achieve out of my presentation. They
wanted all these
businessmen and academia to have information
on what TOC tools and
thinking processes were like and how they
have been used in education and
implemented in other countries. It was a lot
to put in half an hour!
The
Korean audience is culturally very polite and do not interrupt the
speaker. It was hard to read the faces
and I only knew that the
presentation had gone down well when I was
mobbed immediately after by
these solemn-faced gentlemen who were
now complimenting me with beaming
smiles and pushing call-cards into my
hand while asking questions.
The
university academia was especially interested. They asked so many
questions. Luckily we had our friend
Vivien Lee, from
them the assistance anytime should they require her to in
future.
Mr.
Kang Seung Deok, the CEO of
KTOC Consulting arranged for a meeting
on education the day after the conference. We discussed
for almost 4
hours on how to start TOCFE in
could be used in the learning of
curriculum content. They plan to have the
first Teachers’ TOCFE Workshop by
summer 2004 and have plans to start
with a few schools then. They were also very interested in
the package with
YANI. Mr. Kang said that although they
were in business, they were not
here to make money from education, but to contribute to
education and to
the children for the future. I believe this year we can
proudly fly
flag with the rest of the country flags for TOCFE.
I
wish to thank Mr. Kang, Mr. Jae, Ms. Chan, Ms. Park
and the rest of the
KTOC
staff for looking after me so well in spite of their other hectic duties
at the conference.
Next:
(2)
Announcing a New Location for TOCFE Resources
From Cal Haliburton,
Thinking
Skills for Children also known as Yani's Goal can now
be purchased
on-line at www.halliburtonassociates.com/catalog.
Other
resources free for download are available at
www.halliburtonassociates.com/resources
If
you would like to link, advertise, or sell your TOC resources at this site,
please contact info@halliburtonassociates.com
EDITORS’ NOTES
(3) Kay
Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards
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processes, lessons, announcements, and
etc. by mail to: Cheryl A. Edwards,
to cedwards@cedarville.net or
kayseal@comcast.net.
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