TACTics Journal
A Publication for and by TOC for Education
Practitioners
April 2007
In this issue:
- A
Welcome Note by the Editor
- Important Updates to Recent 10th TOCfE
Conference Announcement
- A Gift to TOCfE reported
by
-
“Success… an Adventure” is out in English Z.B.
- TOC tools in
A
Welcome Note by the Editor
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I am sorry that this April issue
of
If you remember, in the last
issue I asked you to suggest answers to the question “How many TOC practitioners
are needed to change a bulb?” Well, the one and winning answer came from the
Well, thank you Don Lemon! You saved
me from making up TOC crosswords, which I am sure is much more challenging than
I imagine it to be!
In this issue we have some
information from Kathy regarding the 10th TOCFE Conference and a
donation recently given to TOCFE. Also an update on the English translation of
the book we discussed a couple of months ago and a letter from Isabelle Cottenden about her experience in teaching TOC tools to 5/6
year-olds in
As a preview to the May TACTics
I would like to share a bit about the training I held for a group of education
consultants in
One of my favourite examples was
from Greek mythology, the story of Dedalus and Icarus, the cloud of Icarus’
interior conflict : to fly higher or not to fly higher. (Dedalus
and Icarus found themselves imprisoned in
The cloud read: In order for Icarus to feel happy, he needed to experience a strong
positive sensation such as thrill and that’s why he wanted to fly higher than
his father had suggested. On the other hand, in order for Icarus
to feel happy, he needed to be safe, as well as to honour his father’s
authority, and that’s why he didn’t want to fly higher than his father had suggested.
We then looked at how this cloud could be generalized and tried to replace the
wants with something more relevant to today’s teenagers. So instead of “fly
higher” we came up with “drive fast”, “get drunk”, “take drugs” etc. A
wonderful conversation followed. The branch was used to explore it all further.
More about it all in the next issue.
See, I had a dilemma of my own: I
didn’t have time to write a proper report on the training and yet I so much
wanted to share with you my enthusiasm after working with this wonderful and
creative group of Polish colleagues. This did it for me. I hope you are now
looking forward to reading more soon J
Zana Borisavljevic jana.b@talk21.com
Important
Updates to Recent 10th TOCfE Conference Announcement
Although
I proofed the final copy of the recent TOCfE Conference multiple times, I did
not catch the typo on the airport code. Thank you SO much Bernie Kean for not only catching it but also letting us know. The correct airport code is: VPS
Correcting
my mistake provides a wonderful opportunity to share as well the most recent
addition to a phenomenal list of conference presenters:
Alan
Barnard, past President of TOCICO from
A Gift to TOCfE reported by Kathy Suerken suerken@cox.net
“The greatest
gift is a portion of thyself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eli Goldratt has said that on
one’s birthday one should give gifts to others. As many of you know, Eli
turned a young 60 on March 31. Knowing how important TOCfE is to Eli
Goldratt and wanting to honor him with something
meaningful for his birthday, REALIZATION Technologies, Inc. gave TOCfE a
significant donation. Realization is an international company (based in
In addition to the gift, we received the
following message from Sanjeev Gupta, “Thank you
for the work you are doing. We at Realization appreciate and admire the
achievements of TOCfE very much.”
What an inspiring example of cause and effect
that reads something like ‘if” Eli (creating the organization to encapsulate
our dreams and giving us the processes to achieve them) and YOU (using these
means to create the achievements noted by Sanjeev)
and Realization (providing essential resources
and words of support)… "then?"
What HAS to be the unavoidable outcome?
Think about it and WATCH THIS SPACE (more and more)
Meanwhile THANK YOU ALL for
giving a ‘portion of thyself.’
Kathy
“Success…
an Adventure” is out in English Z.B.
In the
January edition of the
- TOC tools in
Isabelle is from UK and is
teaching at a British school in Riyadh
Hello from sunny Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia!
I am using the tools in my new teaching job here so much that, when sudying the
three little pigs with my 5/6 year-olds and I said that I wanted them to
retell the main events chronologically, they said that I wanted the logic tree
that we have on our wall!
We have used Yani for the ambitious target as when studying "The three
Billy Goats Gruff" and to create a great Ambitious Target to get the wolf
into the 3rd little pig's house. I'll attach that one for you to look at.
The examples of the ambitious target in Yani practice session have been very
useful. The children loved the ones of tidying up the room and the treasure map
too. My daughter is still using Yani whenever she can.
Today we used Yani to plan a fairy tale and looked at the Ambitious
Target as they all remembered the crossing of the gorge in Yani. The problem is
really the use of words as my kids are not English and their English is
limited. Outcome, achieve, stepping-stones, ambitious and target for instance
are difficult words. The children are from Syria, Egypt, Lebonan,
China and Jordan.
We do internal training and I am keen to introduce TOC more. I have taught some
of my colleagues already.
All the best,
Isabelle
Yr 1 Saudi
How
to get into the brick house.
Obstacles Objectives
Too strong Shoot the window
Too clever Push the door
Burnt my tail Put some food out to attract them
Hide inside a picnic basket
Ask nicely