Donald I, emperor of the world.

[icowden]

Don't forgetting the reading out of tweets that they have on screen for you. They are like INSET days when someone has done a Powerpoint presentation with about 10 words per slide, which they've given to you before the session as a print-out, then they proceed for the next hour to read the slides v e r y s l o w l y.

I really really hate that.

Lesson 1 in powerpoint is don't just read out the slide. The slide is to list key information and talking points. That's all.
Less information is more.

 

[briantrumpet]

So that's what happens on inset days.

People get trained (aka have all the statutory stuff shoved in front of their faces... in se[rvice] t[training]). Used to be known as Baker Days in schools.

FWIW, most of it is now delivered via online training modules, and though I've retired from my school, I still get them for Exeter University, including diversity training, obvs. Not that I get to appoint professors...

 

[briantrumpet]

So that's what happens on inset days.

Yup. If it weren't for cakes (and contracts), they'd be sparsely attended.

Most of it them are box ticking to say that safeguarding and safety stuff has been delivered. Things like epi pens, various protocols reminded. A bit like doing First Aid for the umpteenth time, but it needs to be done, even if most of it is boring and you won't need to use any of the info (if you're lucky).

The one exception, which I did every year for about 20 years is the safeguarding one, if done well. It didn't need to be long, mostly drawing attention to anything substantial that had changed in the regulations & protocols. But the one bit that needed to be done is the "If you think it doesn't happen here, it does. I know it does, because I see every case." One particular year, he had a slide of the safeguarding team up behind him, including one of the senior safeguarding people, who had suddenly resigned in the summer for what he'd done with a Y13 pupil at the end of the summer term. Family man, with children at the school. As they always remind you, "Whoever it is, however well you think you know your colleagues and friends, if you have *any* suspicion or doubt, you *must* report it, by law." Deeply sad. The safeguarding lead who was presenting it was devastated about not spotting the slide, but I told him it was pretty much the most powerful illiustration about why we are under a legal duty to report *any* suspicion.