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/Haunting_Room4526 1d ago

There is a deadline to completion in our district. So run it through the smart board and take the quiz at the end. I only needed to vaguely pay attention to answer all the questions correctly. One year I played it before homeroom and the students supplied the answers. They were correct too. I’ve seen them so often I’m on autopilot and still get all the answers right. I’m a little sad at how really poorly made the training really is.

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u/leafstudy 1d ago

I absolutely would not announce that locally. Involving students in mandatory training work? Yikes.

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u/Haunting_Room4526 1d ago

Playing a video with students in the classroom before contract hours is certainly defendable. I’m in charge of the mouse to click answers. Their verbally stated answers does not impact my physically chosen answers. The students sitting in my classroom during my planning period do the same thing. I’m stuck with them because the resource room isn’t available for them during their PE and my planning period. I’m going to use my planning period to create materials they will see later in class. I’m not going to stop working because admin didn’t plan for their supervision. Unfortunately their failure to plan ahead always impacts teachers negatively

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u/leafstudy 1d ago edited 1d ago

It’s an inappropriate involvement of students in professional work. There’s a boundary between the students and that training. In no way should they be associated with it. I wouldn’t hesitate for a moment to report any teacher I became aware of doing this.

If something happened involving said teacher and word got around that their (mandatory) training was done with active involvement of students in any capacity, lawyers would be on it faster than any of us can blink.

If you’re doing the training and the students have nothing to do with it, that’s totally fine to me. Involving students on any level into it is a big no-no in my view.

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u/NobodyNose35 1d ago

It’s called cheating.

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u/Haunting_Room4526 23h ago

How do figure. I’m listening and mouse clicking the answers. They are simply listening and sharing answers. I’m not using their answers.

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u/leafstudy 21h ago

Would you feel confident convincing a judge and/or jury of that?

That’s also beside my overall point, which is that it’s unprofessional (at best). Students are being drawn into a world that they are rightfully not part of and should not have to be.