TVOT Book Club - Lost at School by Ross Green
Join your peers at our Local OT Office at 521 Nottinghill Road, Suite 8 in London, for two evenings to discuss Ross Green's Lost at School. Explore how to assist students with behavioural challenges using a novel approach that goes beyond traditional incentives and consequences. Learn to identify triggers and how to implement realistic strategies that will have a lasting positive effect on struggling students. Our first book club will take place at the end of April with registration opening on our website next week and members can use their annual $50 Local Book Rebate to assist with the purchase of Lost at School.
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Mandatory Online Training
TVOT members are reminded that they are expected to reserve one-half day of their 2 days of paid professional development, for completion of the Board's mandatory online training modules. LTOs will have completed many of these during the course of their long-term assignments, and must verify this in the Portal and complete any modules that are outstanding.
The required modules must be completed by the last day of the school year in June but they will not be posted in the Employee Portal until April 1st. Once you have logged into the Portal you will access the training just under the heading on the right hand, "Staff Development and Training". The block for elementary Occasional Teachers will be clearly labelled and is regarded as .5 of a day of work for all purposes. Further details will be sent out on First Class by the Board but do not hesitate to contact the Local should you have any questions.
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OTF Subsidies
The Ontario Teachers' Federation still has funding available for completion of certain AQ courses. Subsidies are still available for AQs in Kindergarten, Mathematics, and Integration of Information and Computer Technology (IICT). Go to www.oct.ca for further information or contact Tim Cunningham at ETFO Provincial at 1-888-838-3836.
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Columbia Employee Store Invitation
Just a reminder that this will be the final weekend that you can use your employee invitation to shop at the Columbia Sportswear Employee Store at 1425 Max Brose Drive in London. To download the invitation and for further details log in to www.etfotvot.com your ETFO Occasional Teachers' website.
ETFO THAMES VALLEY OCCASIONAL TEACHERS' LOCAL
