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30“TOC and the Children of Romani Populations,” Presentation at the 11th TOCfE International Conference, Warsaw, Poland, October 2008.
31This application, developed by Christina Cheng, is described in Chapter 27.
32The methods used to evaluate level of social maladjustment were the Rosenzweig Picture Frustration Test and Student Behavior Test of Barbara Markowska. In order to evaluate the level of solving conflicts, predicting both positive and negative consequences of someone’s behavior and planning small undertakings, a set of TOC tasks were created for the needs of the experiment. Conference Proceedings, 10th TOCfE International Conference, Ft Walton Beach, FL, October 2007.
33To view the full presentation: http://www.tocforeducation.com/researchlist.html
34Conference Proceedings, 8th TOCfE International Conference, Seattle, WA, August 2005.
35To view “Curriculum Applications” presentation that includes summary of results: http://www. tocforeducation.com/researchlist.html
36The Thinking for a Change workbooks for children (in Hebrew) include: Solving Every Day Conflicts for ages 5–8, 8–12, and 10–15; The Way of Achieving a Target for ages 8-12 and 10-15; and Think Before You Act for ages 5-8 and 8-12. Glatter, along with Mira Grienberg and Rami Goldratt, has also written Rainbow in the Cloud, a workbook for teachers.
37http://www.tocforeducation.com/interactive.html
38Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute. 1995. Management Skills Workshop Sessions 1-5, New Haven, CT: Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute.
39Some nomenclature was changed in order for terminology to be user friendly for children, and learning objectives have been added and tailored to meet the needs of educators. However, all adaptations in language and content of the original materials have been carefully undertaken and approved by the creator of TOC, Dr. Goldratt, in order to prevent distortions in the processes that could affect desired intended outcomes.
40Her thesis is entitled, “The Effectiveness of Integrating the Theory of Constraints for Education in the Teaching Learning Processing English I,” 126.
41MSCDN, Mazowieckie Samorzadowe Centrum Doskonalenia Nauczycieli, services 50,000 Polish teachers.
42Los Angeles School District, CA.
43Presentation to 3rd International TOCfE Conference Los Angeles, CA, August 1999. As advisor to the Officer of Intergroup Relations, LASD, CA, Denise co-authored “La Crème: Los Angeles Conflict Resolution Education Model for Educators.”
44Linda Trapnell, “Learning How to Make Logical Plans”: http://www.tocforeducation.com/att-c/attc04.html
45Dr. Cora Santiago and Lourdes Visaya, Presentation at the 6th TOCfE International Conference, Nottingham, England, July 2002.
1Source: *Mercer Quality of Living global city rankings 2009, the latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
Copyright © 2010 by Christina Cheng.
2The chapter reports the actual experiences of the project and is not intended as a formal academic study.
3Participants were asked what obstacles were blocking them from achieving the ambitious target “To be successful in the workplace.”
4The Yellow Ribbon Project is spearheaded by the Community Action for the Rehabilitation of Ex-Offenders (CARE) Network, a group of major community and government organizations responsible for the rehabilitation of ex-offenders.
5Refers to the work of Edward Lorenz based on chaos theory whereby the flap of a butterfly’s wings may contribute to a tornado in another part of the world by creating tiny changes in the atmosphere.
6As a funny aside, we were puzzled when used flipchart paper kept disappearing from the trash. Later we discovered some inmates had taken the examples to paste on their cell wall to show off their skills in-between classes to non-TOC cellmates!
1Goldratt (Goldratt, Schragenheim, and Ptak, 2000) examines the use of technology in a business in his novel, Necessary But Not Sufficient: A Theory of Constraints Business Novel.
2The Theory of Constraints International Certification