We have to watch training videos every year. There are usually between 8 and 12 videos, all online. They are about all sorts of topics, including sexual harassment, MRSA, aversive interventions, the alarm system, cultural diversity, etc. Sometimes the videos have these little quizzes that we have to take and pass. Does your district have these sorts of training videos?
I'd rather listen to a video than a Power Point, so I try not to complain. We're lucky - we are entrusted to watch them on our own time, so most people (myself included) play it while we're setting up our classrooms.
Ours are mostly like narrated PowerPoints, sometimes with embedded video clips. We do ours on our own time, too. Our progress is tracked on a PD tracking system so that admin can see whether we watched the whole thing and passed the quizzes or not.
No videos besides maybe a quick clip or two shown during in-service. They usually cover that in a PowerPoint that they send to us to look over and then review key points in in-service. (As I understand it since I'm 1st year).
We have several to watch on Monday. They are all from the state dept of ed. Can't remember topics. My P says do them on our own whenever, just do them. I forgot to bring the links with me so I could watch them over the weekend.
This is our first year for videos...we can access them online. The videos are on bullying and suicide prevention...required training...saves us from using time on our first few teacher days to listen to speakers on these topics...we can do the training on our own schedule within a given timeframe.
We have to watch some, but they are always state requirements (evaluating ELL students for state purposes, blood born pathogens, etc.)
Yes, there are several that I have to watch each year. They show them on tv during one of our training days and this year they were also available online. Most of them are very outdated. We don't have any type of quiz or test, but have to sign off that we watched each one.
I think we have 4 - sexual harassment, workplace safety, blood borne pathogens, and Internet/email use. We are allowed to watch them with our teams and still do some work as we go - like writing names on things or paperwork stuff.
We have to watch the blood born pathogens yearly. We get it from the office, and give it back a half hour later with our sign off sheets.
We have had to view a blood borne pathogens PowerPoint the past few years. It's not technically a video, though--just a PowerPoint file. We need to sign off that we watched it by a certain date. Before we started doing that, we would all have to watch the video on that topic as a big group. I kind of like doing it on my own time, particularly since it's the same thing every year.
I would so much rather just quickly go through the video on my own than sit through an extremely lengthy, boring presentation on some of those things. All of things you mentioned I had to sit through pd for.
We always have to watch the blood-borne pathogens video from OSHA. We used to have a video about appropriate testing practices. It was a hoot. It showed all the appropriate and inappropriate things to do during testing.
Do they still have the person accidentally getting hit in the head by the 2X4 in the OSHA video? That always happens in my social studies class! :lol:
We usually have a few Health and Safety ones to watch. We've typically done them on our one or two mandatory days before school starts. This year, we don't have any mandatory days, so I'm not sure when we'll do them.
Yep. We have the safety, health and workplace guideline type ones we watch every year. Then, scattered throughout the year we have some training related ones, usually assigned on our professional development days to tie in to what we learned that day.
We have something similar related to the church, where we read church bulletins and take quizzes (VIRTUS training) that we have to complete for two years after joining the diocese.
Blood born pathogens is the only one I've ever had to watch. Then, mid year last year, we had to watch one on Epi Pens after a near by district had a death because a little girl went in to anaphylactic shock and no one was allowed to use an Epi Pen but the nurse.
We have to have Epi Pen training every time we take kids on a field trip. I told the nurse last year that I have been Epi Pen trained so many times that I could just start doing the training for her!
They changed the policy last year in my area because of the death. So, it was the first time we had it. Yet, the kids I teach aren't allowed to carry the pen on them so it is kind of a moot point.
