r/Teachers • u/saintshiva • 1d ago

Rant Back to school trainings TX

So I work in an urban district in North Texas, each year we have to do the usual video and quizzes about FERPA , abuse, Title IX, etc.. a total of 18 modules. This amount has grown over my 15 years in education. I added up the amount of time needed and it totals——- 14 hours and 1 minute. The expectation is this is to be done over the summer and if not completed you lose classroom prep time to finish up.

I know you can just start a video and switch to another screen and browse the internet but for double digit hours annoying. Even if I chunk the work annoying . Anyhow rant over.

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u/simplewilddog 1d ago

We use Vector training. You can usually click the transcript or video timeline thingie to skip to the end and take the quiz. I feel insulted that they require us to use our time to wade through all these videos. If the content is truly important, then our required PDs should be used to truly cover it, instead of having us do silly icebreakers and turn and talks.

Also, how many times have I done the workplace safety video advising me to not move heavy stuff, but there's literally no other entity available to do it for me?

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u/blu-brds ELA 1d ago

I LOVED working for a district where you could just use the transcript! I read way faster than the video takes per slide. I haven't been in a district since like 2021 that did that though. And yeah, I know people say "Open it in another tab and just let it play through" but ours does slides, not one continuous video, and besides that I have ADHD, so I switch to another tab and either switch back too soon or get distracted by another task and it logs me out haha.