teacher continuing education credits?

[Chris Kloth]

Answer follows...

Quoting Michael Herman <michael at michaelherman.com>:
>
> Comment:
> I was wondering if anyone that has used open space tech for teachers or
> schools has ever tried to get the participating teachers continuing
> education credits as incentive? How did you go about this? Did it work?
> Thanks!
>
>
I have done many meetings with teachers and other educators in open  
space over the years.  On several occasions continuing education  
credits were offered as an incentive and in others they were not.   
When there was a sufficiently compelling question that was important  
to those attending people came without the credits to do what they saw  
as important work.


When CEUs were offered is was as a bonus after we clarified the  
compelling question.  I am not sure if we had more people because of  
the CEUs.


I have to own a degree of ambivalence on this matter because the part  
of who I am that can be judgmental can feel judgmental about people  
who need credits before being willing to engage in important work.  My  
less judgmental side knows that, in the US, teachers are under-payed  
and already working more uncompensated hours than we have a right to  
demand so if CEUs help them get recognition or compensation they more  
than deserve it.


 From my perspective the key to getting the CEUs awarded was having  
someone as part of the planning team who had experience working the  
CEU system in the jurisdiction AND understood how OST works so that  
s/he was able and willing to frame the application for credits in a  
way that the reviewers can approve and to advocate for the application  
when there were reviewers who did not "get it."


Hope this helps.


Shalom,

Chris Kloth
Senior Partner
ChangeWorks of the Heartland
250 South Virginalee Road
Columbus, OH 43209-2052
Phone: 614.239.1336
Fax: 614.237.2347
E-mail: chris at got2change.com
URL: www.got2change.com


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