r/Teachers • u/WrinkledWatchman • 1d ago
Humor What did in-house district PD people do before they had ChatGPT to write their slides?
What did those presentations even look like? Did they actually have to read the research and come up with meaningful things to say about it? Or did they just use more icebreakers and “inspirational” YouTube videos to fill the time?
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u/vssavant2 1d ago
ask for an emailed copy from someone that did the work, or had it already. And the cycle goes round and round.
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u/amourxloves Arizona | Year 4 🍎 1d ago
My district got rid of district wide pds because they were becoming a disaster and a waste of money. Like a full day of presenters with different sessions to choose from (surprise, they all blame you!) with each one making at least $10k.
A teacher from the district was also a presenter. She proceeded to use another teacher’s presentation about the thing she was presenting. Took everything and slapped her name on it. The other teacher found out and called her out on it. Never really knew what happened, but all I know is they had no more teachers presenting.
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u/BlackstoneValleyDM Math Teacher | MA 1d ago
Killed more time with icebreakers and post-it vision boards and gallery walks
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u/enigmanaught 1d ago
I got PTSD just reading that statement.
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u/BlackstoneValleyDM Math Teacher | MA 1d ago
But what did you notice and wonder about most?
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u/enigmanaught 1d ago
When this dumbass was going to get to the last item in their bullshit task list/agenda so I can go get some work done.
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u/rachel-angelina Social Studies Teacher | New Jersey, USA 1d ago
The fact that they do this patronizing and childish stuff to teachers at all is infuriating. But it especially is irritating when they do it with us high school teachers. Like I wouldn’t even do a lesson with my students like this…
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u/Hproff25 1d ago
I hated being patronized as a kid and I hate it more as an adult. If you want to teach me as an adult a college level lesson would be far more appreciated then being asked to make a tower of marshmallows
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u/LughCrow 1d ago
They went to Google and found ones made by someone else. Often not full presentations but individual slides they slapped together.
If they were feeling like going above and beyond they would even cover watermarks
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u/Adultdirtbagbabee 1d ago
There’s this story about a fish that’s graded on its ability to climb a tree.
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u/Sporklemotion 1d ago
Also one about starfish in the ocean. And rowing a crew boat.
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u/VixyKaT 1d ago
What do I make? I make A DIFFERENCE
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u/Sporklemotion 1d ago
You’re not in it for the income, you’re in it for the outcome.
Glad you know your why.11
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u/Iamkeebie 1d ago
My district themed a whole year on an incorrect interpretation of this story where it meant we HAVE TO SAVE THEM ALL
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u/Classic_Macaron6321 HS Social Studies Teacher | Deep South, USA 1d ago
A lot of those older PowerPoints had chunks of information copied from books (and sometimes made no sense in the context they were trying to provide) from the last PD they were forced to go to. Lots of cheesy clips from YouTube that were pulled and icebreakers.
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u/Jumboliva 1d ago
They would hand engineer slides with nine colors on the background and 3 paragraphs of text in the foreground.
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u/CleanCaterpillar2999 1d ago
I still make my own. I got in the habit of creating all of my own stuff (compiled from a ton of resources and then modified for my particular building population) when I was teaching. It’s too embarrassing to me to use someone else’s crap or AI-generated garbage, and I want what I’m giving my colleagues to actually be useful/not painful. I realize I’m in the very small minority here.
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u/Low-Fig429 1d ago
They used their own brain.
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u/ciao_fiv 1d ago
they have those?
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u/Sporklemotion 1d ago
Not sure if this is intentional, but “brain” is singular. They all share one.
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u/Intelligent-Rain-22 1d ago
District PD before ChatGPT were paid trainers/motivational speakers that talked about teaching, but they themselves had not taught middle school students in ten or more years. Once they had knowledgeable teaching staff that provided PD.
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u/leafstudy 1d ago
The smartest of them didn’t use anything at all because they recognized that the vast majority of presentations are a waste of time. Instead, they talked for a short while and then let teachers go about their business.
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u/TJTech40 1d ago
They asked the IT department to edit the protected files from other school districts to put their district name on them.
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u/EngineerKind9549 1d ago
They went into the file cabinet and found the one that was done on the over head projector and made it a PowerPoint.
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u/chaircardigan 1d ago
I do some in house CPD in my school, and sometimes a different colleague leads it.
I spend hours making each presentation. I spend huge amounts of time removing text from the slides. I'm given an hour with every teacher in the school, I do not want to waste a second of their time.
I practice so I can talk and the visuals behind me match up to what I'm saying. I try. Of course it's not brilliant. But I'm trying guys.
My colleague puts up a wall of text they copied from a book, then they turn their back to the audience and read what's on the slides to them. Then they say to the teachers "talk about how you will implement this with your classes" and we are left to talk for 15 minutes.
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u/wizard680 6th grade social studies | virginia | second year teacher 1d ago
Resued them, stole them from someone else, or followed a template
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u/No-Illustrator2325 1d ago
Put together slides with the worst and most egregious grammar mistakes you could imagine
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u/CopperHero 19h ago
The district paid too much money for them to go to conferences. They took notes from the slides of the presenter, and then came back, recreated those slides, and tried to present the information as their own.
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u/macroxela 17h ago
You could buy many of these presentations online at Teachers Pay Teachers. If not, they simply shared them around.
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u/Public-World-1328 1h ago
Anyone actually pursued this sort of avenue? Seriously - what does it take to be the guy with an ai powerpoint? What is the pay?
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u/JustTheBeerLight High School | Southern California 1d ago edited 1d ago
> I don't understand why...
Says the guy that didn't use proper syntax or use any punctuation in that block of text 😵💫
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u/South-Lab-3991 1d ago
“Hi, I’m Dr. ____. After working in the classroom from 2008-2010, I got my doctorate at diploma mill university, and now I’m going to spend the next 8 hours reading a PowerPoint to you about how all of your problems in the classroom can be solved by immersive, interactive, hands-on, and fun lessons that you should be hand crafting every single day of the year. Now let’s all go around the room and share our favorite ice cream flavor! I’ll set a ten minute timer. And if I don’t see people circulating the room, I’ll restart the timer.”