All teachers employed in Ontario must participate in Ontario’s Teacher Performance Appraisal (TPA) system. The TPA system has two components: one for “new” teachers and another for “experienced” teachers. New Teacher Induction Program Are you a newly hired teacher in Onta...

One Class Assignment, 2,000 Bags of Food. When Ty MacLellan visited a food bank with his grandmother, he was moved by what he saw. During a speech to his Grade 4 class, Ty challenged his classmates to bring in one food donation a month. Before long, the idea took off and t...

Although he remains humble about his work and accomplishments, OECTA member Rolland Chidiac is on the frontier of 21st century learning. Now in his thirteenth year of teaching, Rolland currently works with Grade 2 students at St. Anne Catholic Elementary School in Kitchener (...

Catholic teachers take a broad view of our responsibility to make this province a better place. Ontario has the capacity to build a society in which everyone has genuine opportunities to participate and succeed, but achieving this goal will require shifts in attitudes and bol...