What are the requirements for approval to teach the Gokhale Method?
Gokhale_Method Franchise · 2024 FDDAnswer from 2024 FDD Document
- 7.1. Initial Training. You will complete the Initial Training, which consists of Teacher Training Immersion Week and substantial follow-up training and practice requirements which will prepare you to teach the Gokhale System to groups and individuals. Approval to teach requires that you attend and successfully complete to our satisfaction the Initial Training and shall have passed all evaluations, and be formally approved by us to teach. If you do not complete all training and have not qualified to teach within six months of attending the Teacher Training Immersion Week, we may terminate this Agreement upon 30 days' notice and your failure to cure
- 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, to gain approval to teach the Gokhale Method, a franchisee must attend and successfully complete the Initial Training to the franchisor's satisfaction. This training includes the Teacher Training Immersion Week, along with substantial follow-up training and practice requirements designed to prepare the franchisee to teach the Gokhale System to both groups and individuals. Furthermore, the franchisee must pass all evaluations and receive formal approval from Gokhale Method to teach.
In addition to the initial requirements, maintaining approval to teach the Gokhale Method necessitates ongoing training. Franchisees must attend additional courses, seminars, and other training programs as reasonably required by Gokhale Method. These requirements are detailed in the then-current Teachers' Manual and 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 continuing training programs may lead to suspension of the franchisee's right to teach the Gokhale System until the required training is completed and re-approval is granted.
As part of the continuing approval process, Gokhale Method may request franchisees to submit audiotapes or videotapes of their teaching at reasonable intervals. These recordings may be submitted for peer review by other Gokhale Method teachers. If a franchisee's right to teach is suspended and they continue to offer teaching services, Gokhale Method reserves the right to terminate the Franchise Agreement immediately upon notice.
Prospective franchisees should note that Gokhale Method retains the right to modify the contents of the Teachers' Manual, Policy Statements, scripts, and any other teaching methods or content. Franchisees are expressly required to comply with each new or changed standard. This ensures that all Gokhale Method teachers adhere to the most current and approved methods of instruction.