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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you value their subject-matter skills, bring in someone to train them.  Also if you have any kind of annual review process, then learning to / being able to work with the current office tools should be part of those discussions.[/quote]

I am not their boss nor anything close to it. We are all teachers working on the same team. Unfortunately the evaluation system doesn't include anything about tech usage and admin would have no clue that it's an issue anyway.

It's more of a day to day annoyance and a time suck on my end. For instance, we all agree to bring data reports printed off of a portal to our meeting to be able to analyze the data or reorganize groups. We get to the meeting and 3 out of 5 people actually have the reports. The other 2 say they couldn't figure out how to get to the portal, or just say that it didn't work when they tried (user error). So then we have to spend time during the meeting getting the reports for the 2 people who didn't bring them. Then of course that uses a chunk of our meeting time so we have to find an additional time to meet in order to actually go over the data. They don't ask for help prior to the meeting or deadline, but they should know how to do these things themselves nevertheless considering it is a part of our job even if it is a small part. They have attended all of the voluntary trainings offered and still can't figure it out.

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Now I get it....teachers.  When I was a teacher, I had colleagues who really didn't know how to send email.  I remember one freaking out because her computer had suddenly died....I wiggled the mouse.  They also went to all the voluntary trainings - those must not be very good, because they didn't help my colleagues either.  The only solution is retirement.  I will say one thing, though - if that's your biggest problem with your colleagues and you don't have a principal breathing down your neck constantly, then I would consider you lucky.  [/quote]

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