The Tick-Tock Exercise

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The “Tick-Tock exercise was used to describe my positive and negative thought presenting the ideas of increasing parental engagement in migrant education department, for Riverside County Office of Education Teachers Union. Analyzing a gap in services in the county the union leadership team recognized that parent engagement is limited in the migrant education programs, this may be do to parents being afraid to get involved and administration not culturally understanding the population they serve. Because the teachers union will head this project I have several negative thought regarding the project. Using the “Tick-Tock” exercise in the book Thinkertoys (Michalko, 2006), I created the table below. My negative thoughts are listed in the table

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