I asked the principal, What am I doing here? I could be grading tests, planning, cleaning my room, making phone calls, etc... The principal let me go. Yes !!!!
35-year teacher here. Listen to me, O ye unbelievers: this is 100,000% painfully accurately true. I have sat through hundreds of exactly this. And oh yes, they DO email the whole thing to you afterwards. But there's an "energy" (dare I say a SYNERGY?) when we all get together as a "family" that is what administrators chiefly feed on, like vampires at a blood bank.
And the scary thing is that it's true also some 4000 miles and an ocean away, on another continent in a country with completely different educational system. :D These things are universal.
We actually had a live advertisement by a group that "provided lunch" for us one time. They showed up 15 minutes late for our lunch block, regaled us with their 10-minute spiel and pamphlets, then dropped 3 pizzas (cut into 12 slices each instead of the usual 8) and a single bunch of bananas on the table for the group of 30 of us. I'm a veteran teacher, so I knew better and packed my own lunch that day.
This is so true. I love the 'voice' and the mannerisms. So true. I love watching this before our weekly two-hour professional development sessions. It really cheers me up and lightens my mood after a full day of teaching
Almost 10 years ago, we had a common core expert to train our English department. She told us instead of READING "Of Mice and Men", why not skip the 100 page, easy-to-read, beloved novel that the kids always love (and actually get excited about), and instead just ask the kids if it is ever ok to kill your best friend. We all stared at each other across the table, all thinking the same thing at the same time. The kids would say, "No," and the discussion would be over.
I think I can beat that: a curriculum specialist once suggested to our English department that, instead of everyone reading the novel at once, how cool would it be to divide the class into groups, assign each group only a PART of the novel, and then they could teach each other! So efficient! This would work eqally well for family vacations: "O.K., gang, here we are in New York city! The Big Apple! Johnny, you're going to Yankee Stadium; Susie, I've got you slated for Times Square; Mom's gonna hit up the Empire State building; and I'll cover Madison Square Garden. We'll meet back at the hotel tonight and compare notes!"
That's.... scarily accurate. Especially the parts where he mentioned that our pay-raises/retirements went to the PD that was basically a total waste of time.
Sounds like a good business idea there. Skip the meeting & then sell everyone alcohol, coffee, lunch alcohol, extra coffee with alcohol in it & don't forget the beers too.
I always did other work during PD, like lesson plans, grading papers, report cards, etc. Once, I planned an entire Social Studies unit on NYC, complete with 20 lessons, for my K-2 inclusion class. Worse PD ever came for “free” with the purchase of a smart board. The instructor spent half an hour on how (and how not) to clean it. NEVER use cloth, towels, or cleaners that can scratch. Specifically, no Brillo Pads, Scotch Brite, or Ajax! He made jokes disparaging Baby Boomers as stupid imbeciles, not a good strategy when the principal and 70% of the staff and faculty were of this generation. He also threw in a few snide remarks about the elderly, needing a full class period to get up one flight of stairs with a walker, again, a bad move. Maybe he didn’t notice the petite, white-haired Irish lady with a walker? Mrs. Bennet, age 90, our volunteer librarian, storyteller, teacher assistant, and sage. After the presentation was over, she pulled him aside into a small room used for an office, and was seen talking with him for about 20 minutes. On the evaluation sheet we had to fill out, I honestly told what I’d taken away from the PD. 1. Smart boards are just the latest in technology toys. By the time I figure out how to use it well enough to incorporate it into my lessons, it’ll be as outmoded as a slide rule. 2. Do not use Brillo, Scotch Brite, or Ajax to clean the Smart board. 3. If called upon to give a class to fellow teachers, consider who I’m talking to before opening my mouth.
If it were Dallas ISD, there would also be something like, "Yes, we know you've just gotten used to the math curriculum that we forced on you two years ago, but this new and improved one that is totally different than anything you've ever seen before and will confuse the heck out of both teachers and students is guaranteed to raise standardized test grades." At least, back when I was teaching there...
I can relate after 40+ years in the classroom! I’ve gotten very good at doing lesson plans or grading papers during these, “new, improved, better, and brighter,” curricula that we “must use next year” PD spiels, feigning interest and attention. Once in the classroom, I add the materials to the others on my shelf labeled BC, (bull crap), and continue to teach the way I’ve always done.
We had a professional development day on Motivating the Students in class. The speaker was slow, nonsensical, monotone, and we fell asleep. I swear to gawd....
Truth! I’ve never had a proper pd found in other work places and never anything targeted or differentiated for my needs like what I have to provide for students 😅
I’m a high school student, and the principal of my school was also my math teacher last year. I normally don’t judge harshly, but he was a TERRIBLE teacher- a near-replica of the guy in the video. It just dawned on me that because he was the principal, he was probably also the guy leading professional development in my school, so all the other teachers had to deal with him the exact same way I did. Suddenly I feel very bad for all of them.
True for social workers too while in trainings!!! They are so early and boring and something that could’ve been a power point that should’ve been emailed🤦🏼♀️
My boss’s meetings are supposed to be an hour each. First meeting was 2 hours, second meeting was 3 hours. And then I stopped going and no one noticed or cared. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
"When little Johnny is running toward you with a knife while you teaching, calmly say: little Johnny, you don't want to stab me with that knife now do you."
Then work on a behavior plan filled with treats and rewards for him not coming after you, then do a self-reflection with the principal and your appraiser on what you could have done differently, and how we can make it all your fault and punish you for it.
I hate waiting for adults who are running late. Start on time and adults will be on time. Don’t hold me up. I now just get up and leave on time saying single mum gotta go.
Students, parents of students, friends, family members or pretty much anyone not a teacher thinks that a staff development day is a free day off. They are clueless to the tortures that are endured.
A total waste of time and money. I wasted so much time in these meetings for 35 years. Just let us go to work in our rooms. (every teacher's thoughts during pro development)
"Professional Development" should MATCH your teaching area: some of us are Special Education teachers who work with students with severe disabilities. It's a total waste of my time when I attend all these "general education" based professional development in-services. I would rather attend a professional development which focuses on my students' needs.
It sucks being an educational assistant who has to attend mandatory PD that probably has nothing to do with me, I can't implement, or is out of my hourly pay grade. Yup...
You know PDs are bad when it is far easier to pay $600 at MDC for the two required classes to renew the licenses. 🙃 Free PDs aren't truly free... they are excessively time wasters and endless headaches.
I have an idea how to increase teacher pay by having students whose parents with high paying jobs to "ask and pay extra attention " the whole time of schools out in order for the parents to really feel and doing acts of appreciation for teachers.Wink,wink
Why the fuck would you need to be a teacher to like the video like as if this video is bad, it's showing how they practice, also yeah of course you're not a kid, you're probably 4th-5th grade
I asked the principal, What am I doing here? I could be grading tests, planning, cleaning my room, making phone calls, etc... The principal let me go. Yes !!!!
Your principal is awesome!
Yeah, I'm an art teacher and all my PLCs were with the Science Dept for some reason?
I was like, so why am I here?
I went to a go math training that i piloted so my admin saw my face and told me I could work in my room. It was how to add your class 😅
You forgot the presenter who uses a microphone and still yells every word. Love this video!
🤣🤣🤣 truth!
I live in a different country, with a different language, a completely different educational system, and it’s STILL 100% true!
me too!! 😓
Me too. It does seem like a universal cultural phenomenon. Like some shared treasure. :P
Just retired - don't miss these at all. This is so spot on.
Congratulations! I’m looking forward to retirement, four more years to go!
I can't wait to retire!!! 🎉🥳
The part about the sign up sheet and putting a comic in every PowerPoint is SO TRUE!!!!! I am in stitches!!!!
Just shows how ill-prepared the average school administrator is on the job.
Shows how poor they are at teaching too.
Yep: couldn't hack teaching kids, so they "graduated" to teaching teachers (at more than double the pay, I might add...)
35-year teacher here. Listen to me, O ye unbelievers: this is 100,000% painfully accurately true. I have sat through hundreds of exactly this. And oh yes, they DO email the whole thing to you afterwards. But there's an "energy" (dare I say a SYNERGY?) when we all get together as a "family" that is what administrators chiefly feed on, like vampires at a blood bank.
Good one
Oh. My. Goodness. This was so on point it’s scary!!!!! Every single part of it! It was so true, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry!!! 🤣🤣😫
And the scary thing is that it's true also some 4000 miles and an ocean away, on another continent in a country with completely different educational system. :D These things are universal.
Yup, I have experienced every single one of these things, haha
We actually had a live advertisement by a group that "provided lunch" for us one time. They showed up 15 minutes late for our lunch block, regaled us with their 10-minute spiel and pamphlets, then dropped 3 pizzas (cut into 12 slices each instead of the usual 8) and a single bunch of bananas on the table for the group of 30 of us. I'm a veteran teacher, so I knew better and packed my own lunch that day.
Scary good--I'm glad that non-teachers can see what it's really like. It's not a free afternoon.
Smh..indeed sir
It's why I quit
Yes!! So true!
This is so true. I love the 'voice' and the mannerisms. So true. I love watching this before our weekly two-hour professional development sessions. It really cheers me up and lightens my mood after a full day of teaching
Almost 10 years ago, we had a common core expert to train our English department. She told us instead of READING "Of Mice and Men", why not skip the 100 page, easy-to-read, beloved novel that the kids always love (and actually get excited about), and instead just ask the kids if it is ever ok to kill your best friend. We all stared at each other across the table, all thinking the same thing at the same time. The kids would say, "No," and the discussion would be over.
I think I can beat that: a curriculum specialist once suggested to our English department that, instead of everyone reading the novel at once, how cool would it be to divide the class into groups, assign each group only a PART of the novel, and then they could teach each other! So efficient! This would work eqally well for family vacations: "O.K., gang, here we are in New York city! The Big Apple! Johnny, you're going to Yankee Stadium; Susie, I've got you slated for Times Square; Mom's gonna hit up the Empire State building; and I'll cover Madison Square Garden. We'll meet back at the hotel tonight and compare notes!"
Many kids do not like Of Mice and Men.
@@adesa1 Only the ones with bad teachers.
Wow
That's.... scarily accurate. Especially the parts where he mentioned that our pay-raises/retirements went to the PD that was basically a total waste of time.
Truth!
This is scary accurate even for me as a teacher in Saudi Arabia with totally different cultures, language and educational systems😂
You forgot the ice breaker or let's watch everyone balance all their stuff while we move around being "creative and fun."
There's help available for every special needs group in school except for the Introverted Teachers.
Spot on. Exactly what happens with people who were such terrible teachers that they decided to become administrators, i.e. every one of them.
A good Public School Administrator is like a unicorn.
So spot-on it's scary! This is why it's always good to have a camper full of beer and Mexican food in the faculty parking lot.
Ha! I always say that they need to provide a margarita machine to make these things even slightly less torturous!
Sounds like a good business idea there. Skip the meeting & then sell everyone alcohol, coffee, lunch alcohol, extra coffee with alcohol in it & don't forget the beers too.
Flashbacks to public school PD. I would plan during PD. That way I looked like I was taking notes.
I never thought of that.... thank you!
A veteran teacher told this newbie to do that! So helpful
I grade.
Yup, good idea. Sometimes I just have sex with Brad Pitt in my head. (of course with the interested look on my face)...hey! It's Brad Pitt!! :)
I always did other work during PD, like lesson plans, grading papers, report cards, etc. Once, I planned an entire Social Studies unit on NYC, complete with 20 lessons, for my K-2 inclusion class. Worse PD ever came for “free” with the purchase of a smart board. The instructor spent half an hour on how (and how not) to clean it. NEVER use cloth, towels, or cleaners that can scratch. Specifically, no Brillo Pads, Scotch Brite, or Ajax! He made jokes disparaging Baby Boomers as stupid imbeciles, not a good strategy when the principal and 70% of the staff and faculty were of this generation. He also threw in a few snide remarks about the elderly, needing a full class period to get up one flight of stairs with a walker, again, a bad move. Maybe he didn’t notice the petite, white-haired Irish lady with a walker? Mrs. Bennet, age 90, our volunteer librarian, storyteller, teacher assistant, and sage. After the presentation was over, she pulled him aside into a small room used for an office, and was seen talking with him for about 20 minutes. On the evaluation sheet we had to fill out, I honestly told what I’d taken away from the PD.
1. Smart boards are just the latest in technology toys. By the time I figure out how to use it well enough to incorporate it into my lessons, it’ll be as outmoded as a slide rule.
2. Do not use Brillo, Scotch Brite, or Ajax to clean the Smart board.
3. If called upon to give a class to fellow teachers, consider who I’m talking to before opening my mouth.
When he said after they leave he would be beaming the presentation into the sky like something from the Hunger Games, I knew this man was a genius.😂😂😂
Love this. My principal does the microphone hing EVERY PD, Assembly, etc.
If it were Dallas ISD, there would also be something like, "Yes, we know you've just gotten used to the math curriculum that we forced on you two years ago, but this new and improved one that is totally different than anything you've ever seen before and will confuse the heck out of both teachers and students is guaranteed to raise standardized test grades."
At least, back when I was teaching there...
I can relate after 40+ years in the classroom! I’ve gotten very good at doing lesson plans or grading papers during these, “new, improved, better, and brighter,” curricula that we “must use next year” PD spiels, feigning interest and attention. Once in the classroom, I add the materials to the others on my shelf labeled BC, (bull crap), and continue to teach the way I’ve always done.
acurate! 😅
We had a professional development day on Motivating the Students in class. The speaker was slow, nonsensical, monotone, and we fell asleep. I swear to gawd....
This is right on point I hate pd’s with a passion lol
So scary but so true. We have to be patient and attentive to nonsense that’s mostly an email.
What, no partner/group activities that require filling in a poster and then presenting your discussion points to the entire room?
I hate these so much . . .
It’s hilarious how completely accurate this is. Lol!!
Truth! I’ve never had a proper pd found in other work places and never anything targeted or differentiated for my needs like what I have to provide for students 😅
This couldn't have been more to the point!
I’m a high school student, and the principal of my school was also my math teacher last year. I normally don’t judge harshly, but he was a TERRIBLE teacher- a near-replica of the guy in the video. It just dawned on me that because he was the principal, he was probably also the guy leading professional development in my school, so all the other teachers had to deal with him the exact same way I did. Suddenly I feel very bad for all of them.
Thank you for your observations.
Sorry you had to suffer
Been there!
This man is ON IT
True for social workers too while in trainings!!! They are so early and boring and something that could’ve been a power point that should’ve been emailed🤦🏼♀️
Also the same for behavior therapists, especially the guy reading Powerpoint.
My boss’s meetings are supposed to be an hour each. First meeting was 2 hours, second meeting was 3 hours. And then I stopped going and no one noticed or cared. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Completely true for Sweden too!
The slide names in the background
Rent or Medicine: Do you really need that kidney? Guess I just found the title of my memoir.
"I hate mics, just gonna use my inside voice..." OMG, THIS IS SPOT ON!!!
So on point- i have learned the glazed-over look in these meetings-
0:27 Every. Single. Time.
OMG- The PowerPoint bit is too much! SO incredibly on point!!!! Thanks for the laughs!
I actually laughed out loud on this one🤣
Is anybody here usually in the last row marking tests during these meetings? 😂
Makes me glad I teach college. We have to volunteer to take these so they usually have something at least partially useful in them.
Spot on!!!!!
All the Bored Teachers content is spot on! 💖💖💖
The accuracy!
This is exactly how PD works.
"When little Johnny is running toward you with a knife while you teaching, calmly say: little Johnny, you don't want to stab me with that knife now do you."
Then work on a behavior plan filled with treats and rewards for him not coming after you, then do a self-reflection with the principal and your appraiser on what you could have done differently, and how we can make it all your fault and punish you for it.
lmao... a drawing for a five dollar off Olive Garden Coupon!!!
Lol
*drawling
@@ABCEasyas-- thank you webster 🤦🏼♀️
I hate waiting for adults who are running late. Start on time and adults will be on time. Don’t hold me up. I now just get up and leave on time saying single mum gotta go.
Lol. I needed a good laugh after my own PD today!
Students, parents of students, friends, family members or pretty much anyone not a teacher thinks that a staff development day is a free day off. They are clueless to the tortures that are endured.
The guy somehow knew who was missing before putting out the sign in sheet 😂
Lol reading the PPT I also show you, emailed you, and will be beaming out to you...end an hour or two early (never does). So funny and true. Lol
I just take a personal day off to avoid all these PD bs.
😂😂😂 this is spot on!!!
You forgot to mention how the PowerPoint slides are usually full of misspellings and grammar errors.
Aint PD if there’s no butchers paper, markers and post it notes ;)
I’m going to read the PowerPoint that I sent to you, that I printed.....wow , the real stupid administrative world...
Spot on👌🏾👌🏾🤣🤣
A total waste of time and money. I wasted so much time in these meetings for 35 years.
Just let us go to work in our rooms. (every teacher's thoughts during pro development)
i remember those days. 29 years in the classroom
How i do not miss tbese meetings
This is so accurate it's painful. 😢
"Professional Development" should MATCH your teaching area: some of us are Special Education teachers who work with students with severe disabilities. It's a total waste of my time when I attend all these "general education" based professional development in-services. I would rather attend a professional development which focuses on my students' needs.
This is so ACCURATE and I'm not even in the US.
On point
What's with the double negatives?
It sucks being an educational assistant who has to attend mandatory PD that probably has nothing to do with me, I can't implement, or is out of my hourly pay grade. Yup...
This is true!🤣
Reading the power point🙄😂oh, kill me now!🤣
Hahahahahaha so true. I love watching bored teachers videos 🤣
You know PDs are bad when it is far easier to pay $600 at MDC for the two required classes to renew the licenses. 🙃 Free PDs aren't truly free... they are excessively time wasters and endless headaches.
And then there’s the principal who will purposely hide something important within a long newsletter just to see who read the entire thing. 😂
A lot on analogies between medical technology and teaching.
So friken true!! 😭😂
Just put this in Brooklyn accent and you got it!
It's no different at a call center training, I promise! You'll discuss the Mcribs that are back at McDonald's.
I have my first one next week. Dreading it honestly😩
Don't worry. The dread will gradually morph into sullen resentment, and finally settle into satirical misanthropy, and you'll be fine
@@nerowolfe736 I hate PD. I’ve been to 10+ already.
@@lindstheteacher1611 I'm in the middle of my first...and it's been a week long...
@@Nemo_Anom I had a two week long one.
Like the farmer who said, “I already know how to farm better than I do.”
That was pretty funny wondering if that is his actual voices he is using?
What? No education buzz word Bingo?
6 points in 4-12 years😂😭😭
Oh yeah, and u gotta love it when they use the first YT clip or meme they found on google search as a ‘hook’... eughhh!
This was hilarious!
Well, the unwanted mug collection is real...
It's funny because it's true.
“We have 143 of you here”
“...to cover for all 127 of us”
Pick one.
Getting PTSD from this... Its actually worse than this.
I thought this was going to be about waiting tables...
I'd put that guys address, phone number, cell number & work number for those 17 calls.
I have an idea how to increase teacher pay by having students whose parents with high paying jobs to "ask and pay extra attention " the whole time of schools out in order for the parents to really feel and doing acts of appreciation for teachers.Wink,wink
Makes jobs for people.
The mind can only absorb what the bum can ensure....
= NOT MORE THEN ONE HOUR!
(so WE are trained, but administration DON'T GET IT)
So it’s like school except with snacks coffee and without the homework afterword
the pd is the homework
This would be funny, if it weren't TRUE!
The video NEVER works! 😂
I bet most of these likes are teachers btw I'm not a teacher
Why the fuck would you need to be a teacher to like the video like as if this video is bad, it's showing how they practice, also yeah of course you're not a kid, you're probably 4th-5th grade
Staff Development, OMG, I'd rather give birth.
Now you know what it’s like for students
😂😂😂
Dreadful