TACTics Journal
A Publication for and by TOC for Education Practitioners
In this week’s issue:
Networking
(1)
Special Announcement!, Kathy Suerken
Reader’s Feedback
(2)
RE: Danilo’s Delivery Cloud, Matías
Birrell
Connections
(3)
8th Annual TOCFE Conference
Editors’ Notes
(4)
Kay Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards
NETWORKING
(1) Special
Announcement!
From
Kathy Suerken, <suerken@cox.net>
I
am very privileged to announce the appointment of Rolando De
Silvio as
TOCFE,
Director of
Rolando,
a veteran TOC practitioner, recently validated his TOCFE expertise
by
convincing a private school to accept the TOC teaching methodologies.
The
school has since purchased a site license for Yani.
During
my recent visit to
TOCFE
not only as a thank you to Eli Goldratt for all he has given to change
the
world, but also because I want to be able to look my 4 year old in his
eyes.”
I
am humbled not only by Rolando's determination and vision to MAKE A
DIFFERENCE
but also by his commitment to consistently use TOC
processes—especially
to create the essential trees to ensure the successful
difference.
These
means and ends are also exemplified by Mike Round of
to
math curriculum. He has been studying TOC for about 10 years and is
using
it in every way imaginable and some beyond imagination!
Mike
is an Actuary, has an MA in Math and has earned certification as a
Montessori
Instructor. He also serves as Curriculum Advisor for South
In
fall 2004, Mike will open a small private elementary school that will run on
TOC.
Mike is already writing the math and science curricula that he hopes
to
have published.
Please
join me in providing Mike and Rolando all the moral and technical
support
possible as they generously take on the Ambitious Target of serving
TOCFE
and—along with you—all
children of the world. Your collaboration has
never
been more needed, valued and appreciated. Mike can be reached:
round12345@aol.com
and Rolando at rdisilvio@mfgexcellence.com.
They
both will attend the 8th International TOCFE conference in
where
you will be able to collaborate with them in person.
READER’S FEEDBACK
(2) RE:
Danilo’s Delivery Cloud
From
I
want to make my little contribution to the dilemma presented by Danilo
Sirias.
The
cloud Danilo presented is:
A:
In order to have effective delivery of content
B:
I must provide students with a sense of direction
In
order to provide students with a sense of direction,
D:
I must present the big picture first and then explain the details.
On
the other hand…
A:
In order to have effective delivery of content,
C:
I must create a sense of discovery (be Socratic).
In
order to provide students with a sense of discovery (be Socratic),
D’:
I must start with a detail and then build up to complete the big
picture.
For our TACTics readers: How would you break this cloud?
BD
bothers me most, so here I'll start. From my knowledge of sales and
persuasion,
I know that presenting the product and its benefits causes the
raising
of objections. Similarly, to present the big picture, all the content,
can
lead to diversion to other points than the one the teacher wants to
focus
on to start with.
The
injection in sales is to build up a prerequisite list for ANY good solution
after
agreeing on the problem. Only after that, one can go showing one by
one
the features of the product that meet each requisite. Similarly, on
delivering
content it is possible that presenting the ambitious target tree
(hopefully
built when preparing the class) will show the big picture of the
strategy
of learning. As one is not showing the contents but the road map to
cover
them, it may satisfy the need of providing a sense of direction as well
as
the first detail to start building up the big picture. Does it make sense?
I
have a course to teach myself and I planned to start with the big picture...
now
I will rethink it! :-) Thank you Danilo.
Best
regards to all,
CONNECTIONS
(3) 8th Annual TOCFE Conference
8th
Annual TOCFE Conference
Location:
Dates: Thursday, May 20 -
Conference: Intercontinental Hotel in New
Accommodations: Jugoslavija Hotel
If
you would like to book rooms at the Jugoslavija Hotel, you can do that
through
the Miross Travel Agency.
The person to contact is:
Ms. Dobrila Puzic
dobrila@miross.co.yu
Miross
Travel Agency
Svetogorska
4,
Tel/Fax:
+381 11 33 44 945
+381
11 33 44 510
+381
11 33 44 529
EDITORS’ NOTES
(4) Kay
Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards
Congratulations,
Mike Round and Rolando DeSilvio! You can look forward to
our
support during your leadership of serving children through TOCFE. And,
Matias,
your response to Danilo’s “Delivery Cloud” was welcomed.
We
look forward to hearing from you. Send your responses, applications of
the
thinking processes, lessons, announcements, and etc. by mail to: Cheryl
A.
Edwards,
send
hyperlink to cedwards@cedarville.net or kayseal@comcast.net.
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