100% Sec. Contract - Deaf & Hard of Hearing (DHH) (External Posting)

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 HS As

Secondary Contract Teacher - External Posting

Eligibility

Open to Continuing Education, Home Instruction, Secondary Occasional Teachers, and External Applicants

Please Note: If you are a Part-time contract teacher, do not apply to this posting. You must apply to the internal posting (identified in the job title as 'Internal Posting') in order to be considered with other contract teachers. The internal posting has a different job number. This posting is intended for external candidates (i.e.) states ‘External Posting’ in the job title, and the introduction is clear about which employee groups are applicable.

Part-time contract teachers who teach only in one semester must contact Employee Services ([email protected]) if they cannot see the 'internal posting' to ensure that their applytoeducation account is set up properly.

The external posting is posted at the same time as the Internal posting. Where no Secondary Contract teacher is hired from the Internal posting, Employee Services will shortlist qualified applicants from this external posting.

Cont. Ed., Home Instruction and other applicants can apply and be considered for any portion of the vacancy for which they are qualified.

Qualifications

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

Intermediate/Senior Qualifications

Required OCT Divisional Qualifications:

Required 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

OCT Additional Qualifications Considered An Asset

Special Education Part 1 (or higher) Qualifications

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

Applications will be assessed according to the requirements and OCT qualifications outlined in this job posting, and in accordance with Policy P.146.HR Equitable Recruitment, Hiring and Promotion.

Consideration will be given to applicants in the following order:

• 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.

• OCDSB Secondary Occasional Teachers and other External Candidates
  
  

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.

Occasional teachers should apply for any portion of a job posting for which they are qualified, as it is possible that a portion of a contract vacancy remains available after the consideration/hire of internal candidates. People, Culture and Leadership Staff will shortlist applications for consideration in the required order.

Application Process

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

NEW - Delayed Offer Period: Beginning with the Fall Staffing process, Employee Services will be implementing a delayed offer period for all contract vacancies. This means that schools will have a period in which they will conduct interviews and a period in which they can provide offers to successful candidates. During the interview period, all schools will be required to hold all job offers until the specified delayed offer period begins. Please refer to the Fall Staffing timelines to review the delay offer period dates.

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.

For assistance with ApplytoEducation, please call their Customer Support line at 1-877-900-5627. They can help you with any part of the application process.

Questions about the postings should be directed by email to:

Adult to John McCrae, Alt Sites, Cont Ed, McHugh Secondary - [email protected]

Lisgar to Woodroffe, OCV Secondary, Home Instruction and Central Secondary - [email protected]

Persons with disabilities who require accommodation in the application and/or interview process should email Samantha or Andrea as indicated above.

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 Samantha or Andrea as indicated above.

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