Where are the required continuing training details defined for Gokhale Method franchisees?
Gokhale_Method Franchise · 2024 FDDAnswer from 2024 FDD Document
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- 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.
- 7.3. Training Fee and Expenses. All training programs required by this Agreement shall be at such times and places as may be designated by us. We shall train you in the Teacher Training Immersion Week at no additional fee or other charge. You shall be responsible for any and all of your expenses incurred in connection with attending the Immersion Week, and all other such programs, including, without limitation, the costs of transportation, lodging and meals. You will be responsible for paying for all other training as per the then current fee schedule.
8. YOUR DUTIES
8.1. Operating Standards.
Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD page 34)
What This Means (2024 FDD)
According to Gokhale Method's 2024 Franchise Disclosure Document, the details regarding required continuing training for franchisees are primarily found in Section 7.2, titled "Continuing Training." This section specifies that franchisees must attend additional courses, seminars, and training programs that Gokhale Method may reasonably require to maintain their approval to teach approved formats. The specific details of these programs are outlined in the then-current Teacher's Manual.
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 lead to suspension of the franchisee's right to teach the Gokhale System until the training requirements are met and re-approval is granted. Furthermore, Gokhale Method may request franchisees to submit audiotapes or videotapes of their teaching at reasonable intervals for peer review, as detailed in the Teacher's Manual.
Section 8.4, titled "Required Training," also references section 7.2, reinforcing the franchisee's agreement to attend all required continuing training as defined therein. Additionally, Section 5.7 mentions that franchisees are required to pay regular fees for continuing training programs and other fees as specified in the Teacher's Manual or Policy Statements, including fees for the Annual Meeting, teacher webinars, and membership in Gokhale® Active (Premium).