Join us Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at the Best Western Lamplighter Inn & Conference Centre, 591 Wellington Road South in London, from 4:30 - 7:30 PM. The following workshops are being offered:
Workshop 1: Applied Interviewing Skills Presenter: Sylvia van Campen
Workshop 2: Applied Classroom Management Presenter: Connie Zoet
Workshop 3: Voice Care Presenter: Lori Holmes
Please go to www.etfotvot.com for more details and to register. Spots are limited.
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We look forward to hosting over 70 registrants this afternoon to hear renowned literacy Instructor Dr. Larry Swartz speak on Creating Caring Classrooms: An Arts and Literacy Approach to Address Bullying at the Stoneridge Inn and Conference Centre, 6675 Burtwistle Lane in London from 4:30 - 7:30 PM. Dinner will be provided.
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Two Important Reminders:
1) Applications to the LTO List will close on February 29th. Anyone who is not on the LTO List but wishes to be, must apply via the TVDSB Employee Portal, even those from the OT Roster who are currently in long-term assignments. Those on the LTO List need not re-apply.
2) OTF is offering subsidies of up to $450 for Math and Information Technology AQ courses successfully completed after February 1, 2016. For details, go to AQ!/ABQ Subsidies.
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April 15th Paid PD Offerings at BMO Centre (count as time worked for all purposes):
- Full day Math for 30 participants and ETFO Provincial will sponsor lunch;
- Two half-day sessions to provide an awareness of teaching students who have come as refugees - To date, TVDSB has accepted the most refugee students of any school Board in Ontario at 308 and the Peel Board is second with 169 students.
-Possibility of half-day session on Nutrition.
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The Local is still collecting names of school where the office will not hand out keys without the OT exchanging their personal keys. Please let us know whenever this happens because HR does not believe in this practice. And please, please make sure to return school keys at the end of the day because the Board uses these instances in their argument against providing keys to all Occasional Teachers.
ETFO THAMES VALLEY OCCASIONAL TEACHERS' LOCAL
