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OSSTF/FEESO Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation Pauline Feng (TDSB)

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 September 2016: Started my final year in the Concurrent Teacher Education

Program here at OISE: I/S in Music (Vocal) and French as a Second Language

 January 2017: Submitted (and revised many times) my application as Occasional

Teacher with the TDSB

 March 8th: Had my interview  June-July: Was hired as an occasional teacher and signed the contract  August 21st: Was texted by the principal at Harbord Collegiate Institute to interview

for a 0.5 contract (vocal and French)

 August 22nd: Interviewed with 3 s for the position  August 31st: Contract was offered to me  September 5th: Signed the contract on the first day of school  Now a Half-Time permanent teacher (every other day) and Occasional Teacher

(OT)

 December 2017: Start the application process online for occasional teaching.

Gather your teaching experiences, reports, and references.

 January 1st 2018: Application submissions start  February-March: First round of interviews

- Individual - Approx. 20-30 minutes - Will ask you multi-part questions relating to equity, inclusion, lesson/unit planning, problem-solving, etc. More rounds of interviews will happen

 June-July: TDSB starts ing successful candidates  July: Occasional Teacher documentation session

- Group session, casual - Bring all documentation (IDs, OCT certificate/number, Vulnerable Sector Check)

 OCT has no timeline, but you can get started any time!  $290 in fees ($140 application + $150 yearly fee)  Complete everything except submitting your transcripts:

Do so as soon as you graduate!

 Links to check out

TDSB application: http://www.tdsb.on.ca/About-Us/Employment/Teaching/Secondary OCT application: https://apps.oct.ca/OLR/Template.aspx?action=rege OCT registration guide, including documents: https://www.oct.ca/-/media/708144310B6C45E7AA7A1CF502BFE138.ashx

 Practice Teaching Assignments

- Placements from all previous practica and placements where you taught in a classroom setting

 Other Relevant Work Experience

- Tutoring, coaching - Private teaching - Experience with children - Experiences with schools (heading workshops, volunteering)

 Professional References (no personal)

- Huge advantage (for OT and contract) if you have an (VP, P, superintendent, etc) - Have references who have seen you teach so that they can speak about it - No limit to number of references

 Resume/CV and cover letter (opt)

 One year of short-term occasional (supply teaching)

Min. 10 months on the OT list Min. 20 equivalent days of teaching

 Apply for the LTO (Long-Term Occasional) list in the summer

 Interview

 If successful, you’ll be put on the LTO list and given a seniority number

 You are now a short-term and long-term occasional teacher!

 LTO positions must be individually applied for

 Interview process  Given based on seniority

 After being in an LTO positon of min. four consecutive months = Ready-to-hire for contracts  You can now eligible to interview for a contract position

Given based on seniority.

 Hiring practices for TDSB OTLTOContract:

http://www.tdsb.on.ca/portals/ward8/docs/seniority%20O%20Reg%20274%2012%20(e).pdf

 As an occasional teacher, you may roll into an LTO  “Rolling LTO”: short-term occasional teaching for two consecutive weeks  You may also be requested for an LTO interview, if the school could not find anyone

on the LTO list

 Finally, you may be ed for a permanent/contract position (0.5 or 1.0) by the

school’s principal if they could not find anyone on the Ready-to-hire or LTO lists.

 LTO or permanent teachers will book a day or half-day off using the online system, 

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SmartFindExpress (E-school solutions). When creating the job, they can request or book in a specific OT using their name or employee number.  Connections! Each job has a job number – this provides proof of work used for payroll. If no specific OT is requested, the job will be put into the system for anyone to take. Other than viewing and booking online, SmartFindExpress also uses your phone number to offer you jobs You have complete control over the area of schools that you wish to get calls about and your dates of availability In order to stay on the OT list the following year, you must work the equivalent of 100 full days. In order to receive benefits, you must work for a certain number of days the previous year.

Taken from http://www.otbud12.com/media/othandbook.pdf

OSSTF, OCT, TDSB What are these acronyms and why are there so many?

 OSSTF is your union  Protects your rights as an Ontario secondary school teacher (occasional and

permanent/contract)

“Through a union, workers have a right to impact wages, work hours, benefits, workplace health and safety, job training and other work-related issues.”  Consists of 35 districts and over 140 bargaining units:

TDSB is part of District 12 (Toronto) (Hunger Games!)

 OTBU + TTBU  Determines part of your pay (Groups 1-4 on the pay grid, based on education)  Manages your benefits plan  Each school has a union representative who can help answer your questions

 The right to be informed – to have access to agreements, policies, and procedures

that affect you and your workplace

 For LTOs and permanent/contract teachers: Having days off for medical reasons,

professional development (attending workshops), and emergencies.

 For 0.5 contract teachers: Only coming to school on your “on” days or times,

including PA days

 Collective Agreement for permanent teachers: https://osstftoronto.ca/wp-

content/s/2014/01/2014-2019-OSSTF-Collective-Agreement-Final-1.pdf

 Collective Agreement for OT/LTO: http://otbud12.com/media/OTBU-TDSB-2014-

2019-Collective-Agreement---Final.pdf

 TC information: http://www.osstf.on.ca/hip/information-for-ontario-

teacher-candidates.aspx

 Ontario College of Teachers has a registry of certified teachers that is accessible to

the public

 Shows your education, qualifications (basic + additional), and standing with the

college (good/bad)

 Your OCT Certificate is mandatory for most job applications  Yearly fee to remain an OCT member ($150) – sorry!

 Fee is deducted directly from a permanent teacher’s pay.  Fee must be resubmitted manually for short- and long-term OTs.

 Can’t be an OCT member until you graduate, but you CAN be hired before your

hip is official.

 https://www.oct.ca/

 Requires a lot of documents  Issues payroll deposits (bi-weekly, retroactive for OT)

 Payroll dates can be accessed online but may not appear for the 2018-19 year until later.

 For OT pay dates, check www.otbud12.com (otbud12 = occasional teachers

bargaining unit district 12)

 Contract with them as an occasional, LTO, and contract teacher separately  Determines your pay (Steps 0-10 according to # of years taught) on the pay grid as

shown in your Collective Agreement

Taken from OSSTF/TDSB Collective Agreement for permanent teachers, Part B14-15 Also found as “supplemental information” on CA for occasional teachers

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Taken from the OSSTF/TDSB Collective Agreement for occasional teachers, pg 31

 Grade 9 French Applied, 20 students  Grade 9 French Academic, 30 students  Grades 9-12 Vocal, 28 students  Non-semestered school: I teach on Days 2 & 4  Have gone through first term report cards and parent-teacher interviews  Have only taken days off for professional development (workshops on FSL

teaching, mandatory New Teacher day) and to help out at the Grade 9 Overnight Camp

 Monday: Drive to school early (lesson plan, photocopy, long commutes), teach my

three classes at Harbord CI, tutor a student as a Home Instruction Teacher

 Tuesday: Get a call in the morning to supply teach, OT job from 8:30-3:30pm, go to

UTSC to conduct a community choir

 Wednesday: Harbord CI  Thursday: Mental Health Day. Book the day off from SmartFindExpress (OTing)

and sleep in, watch Netflix while knitting, hang out with my sister, lesson plan for the next day, have a social life.

 Friday: Harbord CI, then Home Instruction Teaching  Saturday: Teach private piano lessons, have a social life.  Sunday: Teach private piano lessons and Home Instruction Teaching

 Transitioning from student to teacher  Being the youngest staff member  Adjusting to a school’s climate/environment  Time management  Resources  Classroom management strategies and philosophy  Catching up with workplace knowledge (How do attendance folders work? Where

do I get parents’ information if I want to call home? What do I say when I call home? Is it okay that my students are not paying attention right now? What am I going to do next class?)

 Imposter syndrome

 Getting to know my students  Being the teacher who knows about Yeezys and does a flash mob in the cafeteria  Being able to help other teachers with my limited skills – technology.  Hearing that students actually enjoy my classes  Learning to accept failures  Trying to learn from the failures  Having successes  Growing confidence  Slowly building new relationships  Payroll (accessed online)

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