teacher continuing education credits?

[Michael Herman]

thanks, chris.  forwarding to the person who sent the question.

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thanks.  m



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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Chris Kloth <chris at got2change.com> wrote:

> 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
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>
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