Assessing student achievement and reporting that progress to parents is a big part of teachers’ lives today. That’s why, in the last round of collective agreements, ETFO worked hard to increase professional activity days for teachers.
Originally conceived as a way to ensure accountability in the system and ostensibly improve education, EQAO tests are in fact an obstacle to quality education. EQAO tests are based on a very narrow definition of accountability: student achievement on one day on one written test
Re: EcoSchools October 2009
December 10, 2009
The Canadian Teachers’ Federation was honoured to be the only organization to be granted a private audience with the Dalai Lama in Montreal on Oct.
The Ontario Teachers’ Federation has a mandate to focus on three areas of concern to educators: policy and legislation, professional advocacy, and pension.
The latest government initiative to address violence in schools, Bill 157, the Keeping Our Kids Safe at School Act, will come into effect on February 1, 2010. The legislation states that
“The pursuit of self-knowledge —knowledge of the self as an individual, as a male or female, as a member of a race and community, as part of a particular age group — blends easily into a study of relations with others. Part of learning to care for one’s self is a concomitant learning
The word steward comes from an Old English term meaning “house guardian.” It is a word with a long and honourable history within religious institutions, land management, the military, the transportation industry, and, of course, unions.
The federation’s executive took a bold step in September when it agreed to a plan for developing ETFO online additional qualification (AQ) courses. While ETFO has gained a reputation for the delivery of high-quality face-to-face AQ courses, we have never offered an AQ course totally online.