ESS reviews about "training"

1. Uncertainty whether ESS will continue as the substitute teacher provider for WS/FCS, and whether substitutes will be required to go through another round of on-boarding training and security vetting. 2. Students are often disengaged from their education and their parents often fail to hold their children accountable. Frustrating and heartbreaking, in turns. 3. Recent financial shortfall in WS/FCS leaves uncertainty re: future salary growth for teachers and TAs. 4. Culture varies with the school principal and his/her staff. Some see subs as potential future teachers, while others just use them to plug holes in staffing.

The compensation could be better.

training is a little extensive and long

Need more training and training resources for new substitute teachers & paraeducators

ESS doesn't pay you for training, and schedules an all day mandatory training/orientation session during school hours, which goes against Utah state and National Labor Laws. By law you should be paid if you're receiving training during work hours, it's mandatory, and it's for the job you will be doing. There are other methods for training delivery, but they choose the most inconvenient way possible. If you work for another district, that is a full day of not being able to take an assignment elsewhere, which wouldn't be an issue if they paid you. They don't recognize previous substitute experience, work experience, sub certification, or associates degrees. Even if you've recently worked for them or a partnering school district, you are still required to attend an all day training session regardless of your knowledge of how things work or capability of doing the job.

pay not that great and the training director appears to be a little biased

Pay could be higher, not enough training or preparation for how it is in a real world classroom.