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Pregnancy and Parental Leave

This webcast from Professional Relations Services provides information on pregnancy and parental leaves, and outlines your statutory rights and responsibilities.

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Teacher Performance Appraisal for Experienced Teachers

This presentation will address the Teacher Performance Appraisal process for experienced teachers. For the purposes of performance appraisal you are considered to be an “experienced” teacher when you have successfully completed the New Teacher Induction Program or, subject to any extension provided for in the regulations, you have passed your 24-month new teaching period.

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Introduction to Professional Relations Services

Preventing professional difficulties is a priority of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario. Professional Relations Services staff at the ETFO provincial office are well trained to assist members in understanding their rights and responsibilities. If ever you find yourself facing a difficult situation at work, you will want to be familiar with the term “PRS” and the services and resources available in the Professional Relations Service area at ETFO.

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Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) 2008 Valuation

On September 29, 2008 the Ontario Teachers' Federation announced that the OTPP would be adopting 50% conditional indexing of pensions for all service after 2009. Just what does this mean? ETFO Executive Assistants Lorraine Stewart and Jennifer Mitchell appear in this webcast, which explains exactly what has changed--and what hasn't--with your pension plan.

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Special Education: Practical Strategies to Address Common Student Needs

In order to provide appropriate programming for students with special needs and to help each student reach full potential, it is critical that teachers have an understanding of what the student’s areas of need are. It is equally important that the teacher have knowledge of strategies to address the needs.

This series of webcasts addresses eight common student needs:

Attention Skills,
Memory,
Metacognitive Skills,
Non-Verbal Reasoning,
Phonological Processing,
Processing Speed,
Transition Skills, and
Visual-Spatial Processing.

Each webcast provides indicators of a specific need and includes suggestions for instructional, environmental, and assessment strategies that may be used to address the need.

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One in Six: Education and Poverty in Ontario

One in Six is produced by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, and is designed as a tool to generate discussion and awareness of poverty among Ontario educators. The title of the ETFO-produced DVD, One in Six, comes from a provincial statistic that identifies the number of children living in poverty as “one out of every six.”

This film features six individuals who represent some of the groups most affected by poverty -- immigrants, people with disabilities, single women, and Aboriginal peoples. Interwoven through their stories are scenes from the award-winning play Danny, King of the Basement, which has toured elementary schools across Ontario as part of ETFO’s Education and Poverty Project.

One in Six includes a booklet with strategies for using the DVD and suggested resources. This DVD will broaden the viewer’s understanding of the complexity of the issues related to poverty in Ontario.

NOTE: A DVD version of this webcast is available for purchase at the shopETFO site.

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Our Work in Progress: Social Justice and Equity

This DVD has been produced to promote the programs and services of ETFO, with a focus on social justice and equity programs, including women’s programs. ETFO members share their experiences with our equity programs. There is a version with French-language subtitles. For a version with English-language closed captioning, a physical copy of the dvd can be obtained from Carol Zavitz (czavitz@etfo.org).

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Kindergarten Makeover: ETFO Edition

What happens when you realize that your beliefs about how young children learn best do not match the way you are teaching? This webcast was developed to help Kindergarten teachers solve this dilemma. By offering reflective questions, practical suggestions, and a model of the experience of two young teachers, ETFO hopes to make the challenges of a classroom makeover something that Kindergarten teachers feel prepared to tackle.

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