Voices

Re: EQAO (March 2010)

Most minor league hockey coaches will agree that  knowing the  results  of  last  night’s game  will   not    indicate  how  well  your child’s team is  performing.  What coaches realize — but education  bureaucrats tend to ignore — is that they can only assess their team’s performance by watchin

There is no question that one of the issues that creates unyielding solidarity among OTF and the  teacher  federations is  the political philosophy that  has developed around  large-scale  testing  in   Ontario’s public schools!  We  all  firmly  object  to  provincewide EQAO testing  and   the 

The latest government safe schools initiative, Bill 157, Keeping our Kids Safe at School, came into effect on February 1.

"Teaching is . . . fundamentally a decision-making  and political process  that can forever  change the lives  of all those who experience  it, be they children, educators, or parents.”¹

Disputes are part of life,  and that means they are part of the normal ebb and flow of any  workplace.  Key to the underlying philosophy of  our   labour  laws  is   the notion  that  when  disputes arise,  it   is   important  that  there   be  an  orderly, accessible, well- reasoned mechanism f

Professional learning for teachers has come a  long way from the days of “sit and get” workshops covering topics mandated from on  high.

To an  individual  with  a  disability,  the workplace can sometimes seem a  hostile place.  Yet   real  gains   have  been  made in   disability-related  employment law  in recent years, through new legislation, changes to existing statutes, and individual cases that have resulted in  groundbrea

Assessment is not only a common word in schools, it  has become a household word across the province. Recently I witnessed an interesting interaction. Matteo, a grade 3 student, asked his mom a casual question.