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This organization regulates the teaching profession in Ontario and issues teaching certificates.
What is the Ontario College of Teachers?
These are the four strands of the Ontario English curriculum.
What are Reading, Writing, Oral Communication, and Media Literacy?
This is the first step you should take when a student repeatedly disrupts class.
What is building a relationship / having a conversation with the student?
This union represents high school teachers in Ontario’s public schools.
What is Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF)?
This is the largest school board in Canada, serving over 240,000 students in Toronto.
What is the Toronto District School Board (TDSB)?
This degree, in combination with a Bachelor’s degree, is required to teach in publicly funded schools.
What is a Bachelor of Education?
This ministry document outlines what students are expected to learn in English, Grades 9–12.
What is The Ontario Curriculum: English?
This term refers to adapting lessons to meet students’ varied learning needs and styles.
What is differentiated instruction?
Newly hired teachers often start in this role before gaining a full-time permanent position.
What is an occasional (supply) teacher?
This Catholic board is the largest publicly funded Catholic school board in the world.
What is the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB)?
You must complete this government-run application process to be eligible for most teaching jobs.
What is ApplyToEducation?
In Ontario, assessment is divided into these three stages.
What are assessment for, as, and of learning?
When a student refuses to read a novel due to its themes, you should first do this.
What is offer an alternative / have a conversation about the concerns?
Every school board interview panel usually includes this type of representative.
What is a principal or vice-principal?
Toronto schools offer instruction in this many official languages.
What are two (English and French)?
This mandatory online portfolio and professional development tool is used by many B.Ed. students during their practicum.
What is the Teaching Performance Appraisal (TPA) or ePortfolio?
This is the mandatory literacy test students must pass to graduate from an Ontario high school.
What is the OSSLT (Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test)?
This classroom management strategy involves setting expectations collaboratively with students.
What is co-creating classroom norms or agreements?
These are the two publicly funded English-language school systems in Ontario.
What are the public (secular) and Catholic school systems?
This program allows students to earn high school and college credits at the same time.
What is the Dual Credit program?
This is the minimum number of practicum days you must complete in your B.Ed. program in Ontario.
What is 80 days?
This document, updated in 2023, emphasizes transferable skills like communication, critical thinking, and digital fluency across all subjects.
What is the Ontario Ministry of Education’s “Revised Curriculum: The Forward-Looking Curriculum”?
This term describes unintentional unfair treatment based on race, gender, or background.
What is implicit bias?
To maintain your OCT membership, you must pay this annually.
What is the annual membership fee?
Toronto public schools reflect the city’s diversity, with more than this percentage of students speaking a language other than English at home.
What is 50% (or more)?