About Us
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 creative, dynamic, and committed teachers to join our team at
Featherston Drive Public School.
We are proud to work and learn in a school that is multiculturally diverse. Our students' voices and their well-being are always our primary focus at FDPS. We are dedicated to ensuring that our school is a place where all students learn and thrive in a supportive and caring atmosphere. Staff members currently offer a variety of fun and innovative opportunities catering to all interests, including intramurals, Student Council, Coding Club, Rainbow Rangers, Newspaper Club, and gardening projects. Through our strong emphasis on academic achievement, the arts, athletics, Sustainable Development Goals and character education initiatives, our students, staff, and parents work collaboratively to build a strong learning community.
Ideal candidates will support the fulfillment of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board’s (OCDSB) Strategic Plan to enhance the quality of education in the school, and the District, by creating a positive and inclusive school climate, learning and workplace environment. Candidates will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and respectfully, with a human rights and equity perspective, to foster student success, achievement and well-being.
Please Note The Following Timelines For This Posting List
- Prior to releasing the applicant lists to the PVP's - where possible, ES will conduct placements of remaining FSL & EN pool participants. *See Question #3 if eligible for placement
- ES will shortlist and release applicants to PVP's
Eligibility List
All Occasional Teachers are eligible to apply for Long Term Occasional postings for which they are qualified.
Qualifications
If you are fully external to the OCDSB, you may apply to this posting if you have the required qualifications. Please be advised that our order of consideration for Elementary LTO's is as follows:
- current elementary occasional teacher applicants, followed by
- qualified external applicants.
Required Qualifications
OCT Divisional Qualifications: Junior
OCT Additional Qualifications: Spec Ed Part 2
Additional Requirements (experience, knowledge, education,) considered an asset for the Position:
- Math quals, ESL or TELL would be an asset.
- Working with MLL learners to support literacy and numeracy learning through high-yield strategies; Experience with students with an ASD profile would be an asset.
Additional Information
- This assignment is delivers English-Math to a Grade 5-6 MFI homeroom, in combination with Fine Motor alternative goals within ASD SPC classrooms.
Application Process
Process For Selection
Applications will be assessed with respect to the requirements and qualifications outlined in this job posting and in accordance with the following:
A minimum of 3 qualified applicants will be offered an interview, including:
- At least three (3) teachers, who are currently employed as an occasional teacher with the OCDSB, and who have the required OCT qualifications and who best meet the criteria outlined in the job posting.
- If fewer than three (3) qualified applicants apply, all qualified applicants will be interviewed.
- It is the expectation that a teacher who accepts an assignment must agree to complete the assignment as posted. Teachers should apply only to the vacancies to which they will accept an interview.
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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.
Questions about posting details or persons with disabilities who require accommodation in the application/interview process should email the following:
- Kristina.Vander.Vecht@ocdsb.ca: A.Lorne Cassidy ES to Fielding Drive PS & OCV
- Jennifer.Jones-Kosmack@ocdsb.ca: First Avenue PS to North Gower PS & Central
- Grace.Wiegand@ocdsb.ca: Orleans Wood ES to York St. PS & New Orleans Elementary School (name TBD)
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