Description
The Waterloo Region District School Board, situated in Canada’s innovation heartland, celebrates the gifts of each and every student by creating limitless opportunities for them to flourish, grow and become their best selves. The Board provides a comprehensive educational program for approximately 65,000 students in the Region of Waterloo. The Board is the seventh largest public school district in Ontario with 16 secondary schools, 106 elementary schools and approximately 11,000 staff members. Additional information regarding the Board is available on the Board’s website at www.wrdsb.ca
The Waterloo Region District School Board is seeking applications from current Year 2 Faculty of Education students scheduled to graduate in Spring/Summer 2025 for our Elementary Occasional Teacher Roster (JK-8). Conditional offers to be placed on the Elementary Occasional Teacher Roster will be made to successful applicants until such time as OCT qualifications are confirmed. Emergency OT work will be an option provided to the successful candidates prior to being granted OCT qualifications. Successful candidates can work as an Emergency OT on available days within their schedule (e.g., Fridays with no classes) and until their OCT qualifications are confirmed.
Required Qualifications:
Upon graduation, candidates must have the following qualifications as recognized by the Ontario College of Teachers: Primary/Junior or Junior/Intermediate. Candidates with Intermediate/Senior qualifications only are not eligible to apply for the Elementary Occasional Teacher Roster at this time.
Application Information:
Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Communication to applicants selected for an interview will be via email. Please ensure your email address on your Apply to Education account is accurate. Human Resources staff will only respond to inquiries from applicants selected for an interview. The Board continues to engage candidates in different methods of interviewing for vacancies. This may include, but is not limited to, a one-way video interview or a Google Meet video-conference interview. Hiring Teams will provide further information to candidates at the time of invitation to an interview.
Upon request, we will provide reasonable accommodations in the hiring process to support applicants with disabilities.
Application packages should include:
Covering Letter (covering letters may be addressed to Dear Administrator)
Resume
Practice Teaching Reports
Reference Letters (optional)
NOTE that interviews will be conducted, in part, in French for ALL applicants with French OCT qualifications.
In the event that the WRDSB makes an offer of employment, please be advised that it is the practice of the Board that employment will not start until the Board has received a vulnerable sector police check and the Board is satisfied that there are no criminal convictions which would preclude your employment. The Board does not assume any costs associated with obtaining the required documentation.
Please be advised that the information you provide on this form is collected under legal authority of the Education Act, and will be used as necessary for the recruitment, selection and employment purposes of the Board in accordance with Section 29(2) of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
The Waterloo Region District School Board is committed to hiring people who will assist us in implementing our strategic plan. To guide every part of our system, we have defined our Vision, our Mission and six Strategic Directions.
Our Vision
Celebrating the gifts of each and every student by creating limitless opportunities for them to flourish, grow and become their best selves.
Our Mission
Creating learning environments where all students excel as they become skilled, caring, and compassionate global citizens.
Strategic Directions:
Centering students
Support for student and staff well-being
Equitable opportunities and outcomes
Strengthen connections through family and community engagement
Increase student learning through engagement
Collaboration and compassion for transformation
The Waterloo Region District School Board is committed to equity in employment. We are committed to fair and equitable hiring practices that allow us to hire qualified staff who reflect the diversity of the community we serve, who will foster the success and well-being of our students and who demonstrate a commitment to equity and inclusion in the classroom.
We actively encourage applications from members of groups with historical and/or current barriers to equity, including, but not limited to:
First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples, and all other Indigenous peoples;
members of groups that commonly experience discrimination due to race, ancestry, colour, religion and/or spiritual beliefs, or place of origin;
persons with visible and/or invisible (physical and/or mental) disabilities;
persons who identify as women; and
persons of marginalized sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions.
We will make any appropriate accommodation based on any of the human rights protected grounds, to support candidate participation in the hiring process.
In order to ensure equitable representation in the hiring process, your responses to the Self-Identification job posting question would be of assistance. Your participation in responding to these questions is voluntary and is not required for the completion of this application. If you do not wish to provide this information, simply select the "Prefer not to answer" option.
