Vacancy List #2B: 17% Secondary Contract: Deaf & Hard of Hearing (DHH) (EXTERNAL)

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is the largest school board in Eastern Ontario and offers students and parents a world of choice for learning. Our nearly 150 schools offer a wide range of programs to promote learning excellence and meet the individual needs of students parents and the community at large. Our schools are teaching communities where principals vice-principals teachers and support staff nurture student well-being and challenge students to achieve their best.

We are seeking a creative dynamic committed educator to join our team at

WOODROFFE HIGH SCHOOL

Vacancy List 2B (External) - Secondary

Eligibility:

This Secondary Contract posting is intended for Continuing Education Home Instruction Secondary Occasional Teachers and External Applicants.

NOTE for part-time contract teachers: current contract teachers must apply to the internal posting in order to be considered with other contract teachers. The internal posting has a different ApplytoEducation job number.

Qualifications:

The successful candidate will be in good standing with the Ontario College of Teachers and possess the following:

The Deaf and Hard of Hearing class is designed for students with permanent sensorineural hearing loss who communicate using American Sign Language (ASL) and require an individualized program with intensive support to progress through the Ontario Curriculum.

Required OCT Divisional Qualifications:

• Intermediate/Senior Qualifications
• Special Education Part 1 (or higher) Qualifications

OCT Additional Qualifications considered an asset:

• Teaching Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing American Sign Language (ASL) (Specialist) or Teacher of the Deaf Specialist

Additional Requirements (experience knowledge education) for the Position:

• A high proficiency in American Sign Language (ASL) level 3;
• Special education knowledge for differentiated academic planning for modified programming;
• Awareness of different degrees of hearing loss and their implications for students and their learning;
• Ability to provide programming for language acquisition and use student learning profiles;
• Effective use of a variety of strategies related to vocabulary development;
• Awareness of the developmental stages for a learner;
• Ability to meet individual needs via speech and auditory training when required;
• Understanding of amplification systems and ability to troubleshoot with hearing aids when problems arise;
• An ability and awareness to understand and support the characteristics of deaf students with more than one exceptionality such as deaf / LD students Deafblind students etc. and to how to accommodate and modify for them appropriately;
• Awareness and ability to integrate the student (when appropriate) into other classrooms or learning environments;
• Ability to collaborate with a variety of professionals (e.g. Multi-D teams Audiologists CHEO etc.); and
• Previous experience working in a Provincial School for the deaf or working with the outreach services attached to the Provincial School (asset)

Order of Consideration:

Consideration will be given to applicants in the following order:

1. OCDSB Continuing Education and Home Instruction Teachers

• Where no Secondary Contract teacher is hired for a contract vacancy the consideration moves to current OCDSB Continuing Education and Home Instruction teachers covered by the Teacher Bargaining Unit Collective Agreement.

2. OCDSB Secondary Occasional Teachers and other External Candidates

• Applications will be assessed with respect to the requirements and qualifications outlined in this job posting and in accordance with the Policy Equitable Recruitment Hiring and Promotion.
• A minimum of 3 qualified applicants will be offered an interview; and
• If fewer than three (3) applicants apply all qualified applicants will be interviewed.
• Qualified external candidates will be screened based on the requirements identified in this posting and shortlisted applicants will be assessed via an interview process.
• As a condition of employment with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board the successful external candidate will be required to submit a Vulnerable Sector Screening (criminal record check) prior to the commencement of any employment duties.

Application Process:

Applications will be assessed according to the requirements and OCT qualifications outlined in this job posting and in accordance with Policy Equitable Recruitment Hiring and Promotion.

Teachers should apply to any portion of a vacancy for which they are qualified.

Those who apply for positions must make themselves available for interviews. Ensure that your current contact information is entered in ApplytoEducation so that schools can communicate with you.

Please refrain from emailing the school admin team directly regarding this vacancy. Following the closing date you will receive an email from the school if you have been selected for an interview.

Updating portfolios on ApplytoEducation:

When submitting your application to a posting on ApplytoEducation please verify your portfolio in its entirety including the work experience portion.

For assistance with ApplytoEducation please call their Customer Support line at 1-. They can help you with any part of the application process.

For questions regarding postings and the staffing process email your HR Advisor below:

For School/Sites Alpha: Adult to John McCrae Alt Sites Cont Ed McHugh Secondary email Cassandra Bennett at

For School/Sites Alpha: Lisgar to Woodroffe Home Instruction and Central Secondary email Andrea Adams at

OCDSB employees serve students colleagues families and community partners. We invite people of all abilities orientations faiths ethnicities races genders and ages to join us as we create learning and working spaces that honour the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Algonquin people and respect value and increasingly reflect the diversity of Ottawa. Your lived experience is an essential contribution to deliver the education every student deserves with dignity.

If you require accommodations at any point in the selection process please send an email to Cassandra or Andrea as indicated above.

EDUCATING FOR SUCCESS - BUILDING BRIGHTER FUTURES TOGETHER