World's Shortest Bloodborne Pathogens Training

Welcome to the annual bloodborne pathogen training.

Here it is.

Do not touch other people's bodily fluids.

Now, we also have a one-hour presentation that you can watch on your computer, and there is a quiz at the end.

And in order to implement this training, I thought it would be best if you could be in your classroom to implement a classroom-based bloodborne pathogen and body fluid management plan.

So you will be in your classrooms for the next hour.

Just hit play on this training.

I'm also going to give you a handout that has some very important information that you will want to pay attention to for the quiz at the end of the training.

All right.

If you have a lot of mandatory trainings that you have to do every single year like blood-borne pathogens and other topics, often there is some sort of presentation that you have to click through or sit through and it might be very long, it might be hours long, and you have to take a quiz at the end.

Here's the thing.

Why do we all have to sit in a room and do that together?

Or why do we have to watch the same one year after year after year?

If the information hasn't changed and you know the information, Why do you have to sit through it?

I think there's a big opportunity here for principals to help teachers implement these mandates creatively, right?

Like, if you had time to work in your room and a training was playing somewhere in the room with whatever degree of attention you needed to pay to it in order to pass the quiz, and with some assistance passing the quiz with a summary of important information that would be useful in passing the quiz, I think that would be a much better use of everyone's time.

But I'm hearing, like...

eight hours of mandatory computer-based training every year, 12 hours, 19, I think 19 hours is the record that I've come across so far for this mandatory training on just all manner of topics under the sun.

And people need to know the information, of course, but pass the quiz and show that you know it.

I don't see why we need to sit around in the room together or just spend hour after hour after hour.

A lot of people have said, oh, I wrote a script, or we divide and conquer as a team, or I play them all in different private browsing tabs on my computer.

Look, obviously we're wasting people's time, and I think there's clear indication from how people are responding to that.

So let me know what you think.

How could we save time on these mandatory trainings?