An Analysis of Moral in Who Moved My Cheese

Who Moved My cheese? By Spencer put-onson, M. D. A Review and turn up By David Cox, Instructional Technology Facilitator Tioga Junior amply School and Tioga High School At a time when Rapides Parish schools are once once again facing huge financial deficits with resultant changes at almost any level, instructors must bring off with mostly unwanted changes. Being a cardinal year classroom veteran, I have had to change as s vigorous in many slipway. In my internal search for ways to deal with change, I have recently read a disc which has minded(p) me or so sensitive ways to think or so change.I consent that this review might lead you to this book and help you to see how changes, level off when first seen as negative and hurtful, are not necessarily a bad thing. Dr. Spencer Johnson has written a book which gives me some real ways to think about and deal with change. This sm all book, Who Moved My Cheese, is a prodigal and easy read but genius which can enlighten le vel off a cynical person to some ways to adapt to the needful changes of animation in its many shifting forms and challenges. Like Chaucers The Canterbury Tales, the business relationship is told as a story within a story of some(prenominal) old friends at a high school reunion told by one of the friends.The story centers around four characters who live in a Maze and the changes with which they must wrangle. The characters are two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two alleged(prenominal) Littlepeople (creatures the size of mice but who look and act like people today) named sew together and Haw. The plot is pretty simple. The four characters denudation a large squirrel away of cheese and can live their lives without much variation get up, go to the cheese, eat, go home, and start over the next day. This works out all right until one day the cheese is gone. Then the characters must deal with the novel situation.The mice, taken aback at first, are first to take natural action since they are creatures of almost entirely instinct they set out facial expression for more cheese. On the other hand, stitch and Haw, creatures of reason and emotion, go through a series of reactions from shock to anger to knee-jerking and then to divergence. Hem waistcloth at the now empty cheese station, sulking, complaining, thinking negatively and make even himself more miserable while Haw overcomes his fears and sets out to find new cheese. Filled with metaphor as direct as John Bunyans book Pilgrims Progress, this book then shows Haw rethinking, ad stilling, and lamentable on with his life.He sets out to find his New Cheese, overcoming his fears and his sense of having been cheated. on his journey, Haw writes messages of his inner discoveries on the Maze wall, hoping Hem will personify and read the writing on the wall and be comforted by Haws inner revelations. His revelations are never dramatic but always true and appropriate for his situationand ours by extension. The out come of the book for Haw is doubtful due to Haws many fears and doubts about himself on his journey. still by the end, the reader sees Haw succeed in ways that surprise both Haw and the reader.But what about Hem? Does he too succeed? That is where the story-within-a-story ends. And this is where this plot analysis ends. Who Moved My Cheese? begins with an introduction, sets up the story-within-a-story, tells the story of the Mice and LittleMen, and then ends with an analysis of parts of the story by the fictional high school reunion friends who tell parts of their life stories to one another since their graduation. Now, as in Chaucers day, this is effective although some critics and some readers want to fend for themselves intellectuallyand thats okay.Now, the reader of this phrase may ask, what does this have to do with Rapides Parish, teachers, and our mutual situations, and why is this review in a applied science newsletter? Simply put, we are all forever and a day in a stew of change, having to deal with umpteen million rapid-fire a lot confusing and disheartening failures in the classroom. Technology may be employ to enhance a teachers already good lessons just as the ideas in Who Moved My Cheese? can make dealings with changes in our lives a junior- regularise easier with more direction. The story depicts the Littlepeople attacking the equivalent problem with the like tools and failing each time.However, with just a little divergent thinking, Haw is able to break through from his old methods into new techniques and achieve his supreme goal. Each teacher can find his or her own New Cheese in the classroom using technology tools in the same way and more fully reach the ultimate goal of educating young people. Students grow, have fun and learn at the same time, and meet challenges in ways that please and surprise them as well as their teachers, all the while successfully achieving benchmarks like Haw succeeds at finding his New Cheese. In conclu sion, Rapides Parish schools are in for some changes it is true.But with the use of technology to assist us, we can still accomplish our one unchanging goal. Technology instructors and facilitators can guide us through all of the myriad twists and turns of software and hardware, giving us methods, information, advice, and even pre-written lessons which use technology in every subject area and at every grade level. The school district Web site at http//www. rapides. k12. la. us/region6tltc/tltc. htm shows a lot of what can be easily obtained by every teacher who wants to successfully adjust to the changes coming, and then both teachers and students can benefit.