SECONDARY PERMANENT VACANCIES - 2025/2026 School Year

Qualifications and Experience:

• OCT in Good Standing

• Respective Basic Additional or Deemed qualifications required or suitable mutual consent rationale provided where you are not qualified or deemed qualified.

Application:

Please readALLinstructions carefully. We cannot call teachers to clarify applications. If applying for mutual consent you MUST provide a suitable rationale.

Your completed application on Apply to Education should include the following:

• Updated Applicant Profile including contact information
• Fully completed responses to job related questions

Important Notes for Internal Applicants:

• Mutual Consent Consideration: Teachers applying to sections you are not qualified/deemed qualified for you must ask for Mutual Consent. To be considered for mutual consent you must provide appropriate rationale in the respective job posting question below. Rationale must relate to the criteria outlined in Article 21.15.01.01 of your OSSTF Collective Agreement (see below.)
• When applying it is important to use the Apply to Education account that includes your: OCT # UCDSB employee ID and your UCDSB email address. Failure to do so may result in being missed as an internal applicant.
• Contract vacancies are reviewed and filled in order of their closing date. Any changes to your application must be made prior to the closing date of the position.
• Rescinding an application to a contract (permanent) posting must be done prior to the closing date of the posting. To rescind your application send an email to Human Resources Officer Trevor Shuttleworth at

Secondary Collective Agreement Article 21.15.01.01 - Mutual Consent

In assessing whether to offer mutual consent for any sections to an unqualified teacher a Principal shall consider each teacher individually and in order of seniority and shall consider the following criteria:

1) professional learning standards and/or

2) related experience and/or

3) whether the most recent evaluation on file is below standards and/or

4) whether any discipline within the previous 12 months that is not the subject of an unresolved grievance might materially affect the ability of the teacher to teach the section(s) without problems and/or

5) the relevance of qualifications and/or prior to teaching experience to the sections to be taught (although not meant to be or considered as a proscriptive two examples of many variations and possibilities include: English experience being assessed for teaching History and vice versa would be sufficiently relevant but English experience for teaching Physics or Math and vice versa would not be sufficiently relevant).

Professional Learning Standards includesbutnotlimitedtoAcademicProgramscompletedor completing(programs offered through universities collegesor other institutions or organizationsthat do not always leadtoacademicdegrees)ProfessionalNetworksaccomplished(partneringwithbusinessindustrycollegesand universities;contributingtosubjectcouncilstheworkofthefederationsorotherprofessionalorganizations) Professional Contributions made(participate inpresent ator organize conferencesworkshops andinstitutes; contributetoprofessionalpublication)ProfessionalActivitiessustained(readingeducationalbooksandjournals participateincurriculumwritingand/orassessmentprojectsconductandpublishactionresearchprojects; and/or

RelatedExperience includesthoseelementslistedinprofessionallearninggainedoracquiredfromotherareasor domainsincludingbutnotlimitedtootheremploymentprogramsorpersonalexperiences.

Please note you must provide rationale in the Mutual Consent Consideration job posting question if applicable. If nothing is listed and you are not qualified/deemed qualified for the section(s)you will not be considered for mutual consent.

References:

N/A

Selection Process:

Positions are filled in accordance with the OSSTF Secondary Teachers Collective Agreement.

Article 21.15.01: