We had hoped to create a series of four intensive training sessions, separate from any other activity (preferably on site at real live institutions), where the full curriculum would be taught, and that this training would be the basis for the endorsement. A number of technical and other issues arose that made this model unworkable within the context of PTG as a formal credential. (The proposal before council this year bases the credential entirely on a written test, the curriculum and training portion being "separate but connected.") Perhaps we will implement some version of the intensive training anyway, if enough support can be found within the organization - or conceivably outside the the organization. Or perhaps we will simply decide to shut up and go away. Hard to say <G>. Regards, Fred Sturm Has the idea of having a CAUT weekend seminar ever been discussed? (Kinda like regional, but geared totally toward CAUT classes, as mentioned above, taught by CAUT's, for CAUTS) WIm -----Original Message----- From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Tue, May 11, 2010 6:18 am Subject: Re: [CAUT] Preaching to the choir On May 11, 2010, at 6:18 AM, JIMRPT at aol.com wrote: Does this mean that without a CAUT endorsement that the cirriculum will not be used? The CAUT curriculum has been evolving and developing over the past ten years. If you look at the CAUT offerings at national conventions for that period, you will see that a number of classes have been created that address caut work in very specific ways, some technical, some organizational. This started with the Chicago convention where we had a symposium/colloquium with academic and manufacturer representatives, taking up four periods. We managed to obtain support to allow us to continue to offer four periods at subsequent conventions, and have taken advantage of that opportunity to prepare and present a considerable variety of classes, some of which have been repeated. So, assuming there is willingness to continue doing this work, I suspect it will continue to happen. We had hoped to create a series of four intensive training sessions, separate from any other activity (preferably on site at real live institutions), where the full curriculum would be taught, and that this training would be the basis for the endorsement. A number of technical and other issues arose that made this model unworkable within the context of PTG as a formal credential. (The proposal before council this year bases the credential entirely on a written test, the curriculum and training portion being "separate but connected.") Perhaps we will implement some version of the intensive training anyway, if enough support can be found within the organization - or conceivably outside the the organization. Or perhaps we will simply decide to shut up and go away. Hard to say <G>. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." Twain = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100511/4f188ff9/attachment.htm>
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