This concise booklet covers your duties, presenting yourself, how to prep, and classroom management. Be sure to check out the six survival tips.
Do more than just survive
Who’s responsible? An overview of roles in Ontario’s Education System
As an Occasional Teacher, it can be helpful to know the responsibilities of different partners in the education system and how these fit together. This overview from the Ministry of Education website provides a brief overview.
Who’s responsible? An overview of roles in Ontario’s Education System
Ontario Teachers’ Federation – OTF Connects
OTF Connects invites teachers to learn, share and collaborate with colleagues from across the province through rich, relevant professional learning opportunities. Sessions are offered in a wide variety of topic areas including Technology in the Classroom, Mathematics, Curriculum, Kindergarten, and Financial Literacy.
Ontario Teachers’ Federation – OTF Connects
Réseau de Savoir sur l’Équité | Equity Knowledge Network (RSEKN)
A website devoted to equity and what it can look like in schooling. There are a lot of resources such as articles with current and relevant information and lesson plans from an equity lens.
Réseau de Savoir sur l’Équité | Equity Knowledge Network (RSEKN)
Secondary Traumatic Stress for Educators: Understanding and Mitigating the Effects
This article discusses how student trauma impacts teachers. It also lays out how we can create trauma-informed classrooms and schools.
Secondary Traumatic Stress for Educators: Understanding and Mitigating the Effects
The New Teacher Induction Program (NTIP)
| The New Teacher Induction Program (NTIP) is the second job-embedded step along a continuum of professional learning for new teachers, building on and complementing the first step: initial teacher education programs. It provides professional support to help new teachers develop the requisite skills and knowledge to be effective as teachers in Ontario. |
The New Teacher Induction Program (NTIP)
ETFO Professional Judgement Matters: The Occasional Teacher Evaluation and Teacher Performance Appraisal
| ETFO Professional Judgement Matters: The Occasional Teacher Evaluation and Teacher Performance Appraisal processes are intended to promote teacher development for improved teaching and student learning. Within that objective, the processes are also intended to promote collaboration and professional dialogue between the principal and the teacher. This guideline will help you understand the role of educator professional judgement in the evaluation process. |
The Advantages of Being a New Teacher
This article lists all of the advantages that new teachers have which counters the stereotypical discourses around them.
The Advantages of Being a New Teacher
Setting Priorities as a New Teacher
An article that gives new teachers advice on how to set priorities and have a successful first year.
Setting Priorities as a New Teacher
Need To Know If You Can Copy That Resource?
Are you planning to use a copyright-protected work? This tool will help you find out if the use is allowed under fair dealing.
http://www.copyrightdecisiontool.ca/
NOTE This resource is suggested as a replacement for an item currently on the ETFO-OT website titled “Copyright Matters – Some Key Questions and Answers for Teachers” (found by using search bar). The old resource is a downloadable pdf file while the new resource is an online decision-making tool.