How frequently might Gokhale Method provide updates and continuing training?
Gokhale_Method Franchise · 2024 FDDAnswer from 2024 FDD Document
- 7.2. Continuing Training. You must attend such additional courses, seminars and other training programs as we may reasonably require from time to time, and which will be detailed in the then current Teachers' Manual, in order to maintain your approval to teach the Approved Formats for which you have been approved. Such continuing training may include, but is not limited to, attendance at the Annual Meeting, participation in such Teacher Webinars as may be scheduled by us, peer review of teacher trainees, and involvement in Gokhale® Active. Failure to attend and participate in such continuing training programs may result in suspension of your right to teach the Gokhale System until you have completed our required continuing training and you have been re-approved. If your right to teach has been suspended, and you nonetheless offer to teach, we may terminate this Agreement immediately upon notice to you. As part of your continuing approval we may request that you submit at reasonable intervals, and you agree to submit to us within such reasonable time as we specify, audiotapes or videotapes of you teaching, and which will be detailed in the then current Teachers' Manual. We may submit such recordings to peer review by other Gokhale Method teachers, and you hereby grant us your consent for such submission.
Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD page 34)
What This Means (2024 FDD)
According to Gokhale Method's 2024 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees must attend additional courses, seminars, and training programs that Gokhale Method may reasonably require. These requirements will be detailed in the then-current Teachers' Manual to maintain approval to teach approved formats.
The continuing training may include attendance at the Annual Meeting, participation in Teacher Webinars, peer review of teacher trainees, and involvement in Gokhale® Active. Failure to participate in these programs may result in suspension of the franchisee's right to teach the Gokhale System until the training is completed and re-approval is granted. If a franchisee teaches while suspended, Gokhale Method may terminate the agreement immediately.
As part of the continuing approval process, Gokhale Method may request franchisees to submit audiotapes or videotapes of their teaching at reasonable intervals, as detailed in the Teachers' Manual. These recordings may be submitted for peer review by other Gokhale Method teachers, with the franchisee's consent.