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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 teams at both Vincent Massey Public School & Lady Evelyn Alternate School! The successful candidate will start their morning at Vincent Massey, and travel to Lady Evelyn mid-morning to complete their itinerant assignment.
Vincent Massey PS is a large elementary school (K-8) that welcomes between 600-700 students in the English and Early French Immersion programs. VM also has a Deaf and Hard of Hearing class (1-8) and two Gifted Immersion classes (5/6, 7/8). The caring and dedicated staff work collaboratively to provide a safe and engaging learning space for all students and colleagues. They strive to meet all of the diverse students' needs. The staff provide a very collegial and supportive environment, mentoring new staff generously with their many qualifications, talents and areas of interest. VM is a great school that offers many opportunities for growth for new and experienced staff. As stated by many, joining the VM team is a wonderful experience!
Lady Evelyn Alternative is a beautiful, small alternative school in old Ottawa East. We have underground parking due to our smaller, but beautiful yard. As an alternative school, we strive to incorporate a balance between teacher and student led learning, collaboration, community involvement, student voice, cooperative activities, multi grade groupings and learning opportunities. The Discover Lab is a busy and welcoming space with hands on stem activities, a garden tower, and opportunities to build, observe, and explore.
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.
All Occasional Teachers are eligible to apply for Long Term Occasional postings for which they are qualified.
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:
1) current elementary occasional teacher applicants, followed by
2) qualified external applicants.
Required Qualifications
OCT Divisional Qualifications: Primary
OCT Additional Qualifications: FSL Part 1
Additional Requirements (experience, knowledge, education,) considered an asset for the Position: Spec ed and Kindergarten qualifications are an asset.
Additional Information: Vincent Massey PS is incredibly rich in diversity; there are over 40 countries and First Nations represented across students and staff. VM families and students also represent a wide range of socio-economic realities. Please let us know if you have been part of (learning) communities like ours. We are particularly interested in knowing about your experience in support of the success and well-being of minoritized students.
Application Process
Applications will be assessed with respect to the requirements and qualifications outlined in this job posting and in accordance with the following:
Process for selection:
A minimum of 3 qualified applicants will be offered an interview, including:
1. 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.
2. 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 Devonshire PS & OCV
- Jasmine.Wilkinson-Turpin@ocdsb.ca: Dunlop PS to Kars on the Rideau PS
- Jennifer.Jones-Kosmack@ocdsb.ca: Katimavik ES to Robert E. Wilson PS
- Grace.Wiegand@ocdsb.ca: Riverside South IS, & Robert Hopkins PS to York St. PS
