Local Survey Deadline
The deadline to complete the TVOT Collective Bargaining Survey and have your say is tomorrow, November 15th! Don't miss your chance to provide your opinion AND have a chance to win one of three $100 Gift Cards. Here is the link to the CB Survey -
http://www.surveyshare.com/s/AYAMY7A
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Take a Stand for Your Rights in Ontario
If you have not yet sent a message to your MPP to protect fairer worker's rights, please do so today at http://www.myrights.ca/email_mpp
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More Tips for a Successful Daily Assignment
What can I do to encourage appropriate behaviour?
First and foremost, be proactive. Preventing discipline problems is easier and more effective than responding to them. When a well-planned, stimulating learning environment is created, most behaviour problems can be avoided. Student behaviour may appear to be more disorderly when an occasional teacher is in the classroom because some students may take advantage of your lack of familiarity with the rules and routines. In other words, they try to test the established limits.
How can I be proactive?
- Arrive early. (Education Act requires you be there 15 minutes before class)
- Review lesson plans.
- Gather the necessary materials (e.g., photocopy a class set of work sheets).
- Identify potential times for off-task misbehaviour such as transitions or when work is completed. Try to make transitions quickly and smoothly by planning ahead and knowing what comes next. Also, have some prepared activities appropriate for the grade and/or division. These may include puzzles, trivia and word games. When students are busy and on-task, there is a lower rate of misbehaviour.
- Check the daybook, calendar or memos to see if there will be any alterations to the regular school day (e.g., assemblies, drills).
- Write an outline of the day's activities on the board for students to see.
- Locate a seating plan or be prepared to make one.
- Familiarize yourself with students who have special needs (e.g., behaviour plans, medications safety plan). This information should be in the daybook. If it isn't, check with the school administration or secretary.
- Review classroom rules, routines and expectations.
- At the start of class inform the students that the regular classroom rules, routines and expectations will be followed.
- Inform students about what you need them to do rather than what they need to stop doing.
- Provide clear instructions before an activity begins, offering students an opportunity to ask questions.
- If unsure about how to approach any of the topics in the plans left for you, seek input and directions from your school administrator and the appropriate board resource consultant.
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Don't put off registering to attend our Fall General Meeting and Banquet.
The setting, delicious food, festive time of year contribute to an enjoyable and informative evening where you can ask questions and learn from your Local Executive.
Registration at: www.etfotvot.com
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Truth and Reconciliation
A discussion booklet for the classroom (Grades 5 to 12)
OTF Interaction; Oct. 2018
The Student Voice Series is a resource to support discussions about complex societal issues using the voice of students. In this booklet, you will find student responses to questions and classroom discussions, residential school survivor statements, visuals, and key information from the reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Free online lesson plans and discussion questions on Truth and Reconciliation are available for registered imagineaction (a social justice program of the Canadian Teachers' Federation) teachers. If you're not yet registered as an Imagineaction teacher, visit: www.imagine-action.ca and follow the instructions. It's simple and free.
