Answer follows...
Quoting Michael Herman <[email protected]>:
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: [email protected]
URL: www.got2change.com
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