What is my obligation regarding submitting teaching recordings to the Gokhale Method?
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 the 2024 Gokhale Method Franchise Disclosure Document, as a franchisee, you may be required to submit teaching recordings. Specifically, as part of your continuing approval to teach the Gokhale System, Gokhale Method may request that you submit audiotapes or videotapes of you teaching at reasonable intervals. You must submit these recordings within the timeframe that Gokhale Method specifies. The details regarding the submission of these recordings will be outlined in the then-current Teachers' Manual.
Gokhale Method may use these recordings for peer review by other Gokhale Method teachers. By agreeing to the franchise terms, you consent to the submission of your teaching recordings for peer review.
It is important to note that the frequency and specific requirements for these submissions are subject to change, as Gokhale Method may revise the contents of the Teachers' Manual from time to time. Therefore, franchisees must stay updated with the latest version of the Teachers' Manual to ensure compliance with the current standards.