Description
About Us
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is the largest school board in Eastern Ontario and offers students and parents a world of choice for learning. Our nearly 150 schools offer a wide range of programs to promote learning excellence and meet the individual needs of students, parents, and the community at large. Our schools are teaching communities where principals, vice-principals, teachers and support staff nurture student well-being and challenge students to achieve their best.
We are seeking creative, dynamic, and committed teachers to join our team at Forest Valley Elementary School.
At Forest Valley Elementary School, we pride ourselves on: the quality of the programs; the academic performance of the students; the variety of activities offered; the professionalism of staff; and, the high level of involvement and support from our parents. We set high and attainable academic and social expectations for our students. Students are encouraged to respect diversity, celebrate differences and develop tolerance and acceptance of others. We have a forest behind our school and we are doing work with a Traditional Knowledge Keeper to learn about and appreciate the land on which we learn on and live on. We encourage students to think for themselves, develop strategies to make informed, thoughtful decisions, assume responsibility for their actions, become self-motivated, develop self-confidence and develop as resilient members of society. We challenge ourselves to take academic risks by doing things differently and by coming up with new and creative ideas.
Ideal candidates will support the fulfillment of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Boards (OCDSB) Strategic Plan to enhance the quality of education in the school, and the District, by creating a positive and inclusive school climate, learning and workplace environment. Candidates will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and respectfully, with a human rights and equity perspective, to foster student success, achievement and well-being.
Eligibility List
All Occasional Teachers are eligible to apply for Long Term Occasional postings for which they are qualified.
If you are fully external to the OCDSB, you may apply to this posting if you have the required qualifications. Please be advised that our order of consideration for Elementary LTO's is as follows: 1) current elementary occasional teacher applicants, followed by 2) qualified external applicants.
Required Qualifications
OCT Divisional Qualifications: Primary, Junior
OCT Additional Qualifications: FSL Part 1
Additional Requirements (experience, knowledge, education,) considered an asset for the Position: Kindergarten qualifications. Experience working in Kindergarten.
Additional Information: Scent-Free school as a staff member has a severe allergy. School hours 8:30am-3:00pm.
Application Process
Applications will be assessed with respect to the requirements and qualifications outlined in this job posting and in accordance with the following:
Process for selection:
A minimum of 3 qualified applicants will be offered an interview, including:
1. At least three (3) teachers, who are currently employed as an occasional teacher with the OCDSB, and who have the required OCT qualifications and who best meet the criteria outlined in the job posting.
2. If fewer than three (3) qualified applicants apply, all qualified applicants will be interviewed.
- It is the expectation that a teacher who accepts an assignment must agree to complete the assignment as posted. Teachers should apply only to the vacancies to which they will accept an interview.
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OCDSB employees serve students, colleagues, families and community partners. We invite people of all abilities, orientations, faiths, ethnicities, races, genders and ages to join us as we create learning and working spaces that honour the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Algonquin people, and respect, value and increasingly reflect the diversity of Ottawa. Your lived experience is an essential contribution to deliver the education every student deserves with dignity.
Questions about posting details or persons with disabilities who require accommodation in the application/interview process should email the following:
- Kristina.Vander.Vecht@ocdsb.ca: A.Lorne Cassidy ES to Devonshire PS & OCV
- Jasmine.Wilkinson-Turpin@ocdsb.ca: Dunlop PS to Kars on the Rideau PS
- Jennifer.Jones-Kosmack@ocdsb.ca: Katimavik ES to Robert E. Wilson PS
- Grace.Wiegand@ocdsb.ca: Robert Hopkins PS to York St. PS
