Just about every profession has some sort of inservice training each year. When I did the Deere thing, we had to take so many classes from John Deere University each year. So were in-person training while some were online classes.
The teaching profession always has inservice to start the school year. It varies from district to district but some of it is basic business type stuff while other sessions are “motivational”. In Oklahoma, every CareerTech teacher has to go to Summit, which was formerly known as Summer Conference. I wish that I could say that the 2022 version of this was useful, educational or entertaining. I don’t want to be a liar so I will not tell you that it was useful, educational, entertaining or worthwhile. It wasn’t
Shattuck Public Schools started our inservice today. We traveled to Arnett and teachers from Shattuck, Arnett, Fargo-Gage and Leedey all attended a workshop called “Teach Like A Pirate”. It was outstanding, educational, entertaining, useful, energetic, motivational and completely worthwhile. All genres of teachers liked it–elementary to high school, coaches and ag teachers–everybody. His message is focused on a classroom but it also applies to the world of marketing, sales and people skills.
My question is this–How can 4 little schools (maybe 150 teachers total between all 4 schools) have a day of education, entertainment and motivation for an inservice that will benefit teachers and students YET our state department can waste two days and require us to attend these Summit meetings that could be condensed into an email that could take like 7 minutes to read?
I can answer this question. “Life is mostly effort”. That’s it. Some administrators in NW OK put some effort into providing a quality experience for their teachers. I’m real sure that not much effort was put into the Ag Ed part of summit. And once again, the lack of effort showed.
People, have a good day and a better tomorrow. I judged some really good sheep and goats this past weekend.
