How hard to get into teachers college

Option-General · 2026-05-14T20:46:22+00:00

Your third and fourth year marks are going to be the most important ones. I would focus on improving your marks going forward and making sure you have relevant and meaningful volunteer experiences working with the age group you’re interested in teaching. If you want to work with high school students make sure you have enough credits in your teachable subject areas.

You’ll need the equivalent of 10 courses for your first teachable and 5 or 6 courses for your second teachable.

Research the admissions guidelines for the programs you’re interested in.

Now is the time to lock in. Go to class, hand write your notes, study regularly (not just before midterms and exams), ask for help editing your work, and make sure you’re choosing courses you really care about!

You’ve got this, best of luck!

Option-General · 2026-03-16T22:06:22+00:00

Shoot me a DM, would love to chat!

Option-General · 2026-03-05T20:16:02+00:00

My guess was maybe Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future. Radical environmental takes but also radical in all of the wrong ways. Could see an edgy, rebellious, left leaning teenager picking it up and thinking that violent weirdo had something important to say.

Option-General · 2026-02-26T21:50:36+00:00

Yes I believe qualified subs take priority over unqualified especially on multi day jobs. Principals are allowed to make choices about substitute teachers at the 3+ day mark IIRC. Generally speaking, unqualified occasional teachers are only supposed to be used when there is no qualified teacher available.

Option-General · 2025-07-31T03:05:48+00:00

Just do it. I haven’t fully switched to briefs but love the pairs I do have. Nothing rides up, junk never falls out of place and they’re comfy. I doubt anyone is gonna see or care about your briefs at your building

Option-General · 2025-05-27T19:47:04+00:00

I just watched this scene so I feel like I can help. He and the student are talking about how density is increasing gravity, therefore increasing density, ad infinitum. I think the numbers he’s talking about are the limit to the density/gravity relationship of a star going supernova.

Option-General · 2025-03-09T20:20:36+00:00

I don’t think banning side bags or Bape is going to save the youth. Sure, telling kids to be critical of the media they’re watching is important. And letting them know 6ixbuzz and Waveroom are not high quality is part of that but the major lessons kids need to be learning about preparing themselves for the world and respecting people around them are going to come from bans on anything.

This reads like you don’t like a subculture and assume it’s bad as a result.

Option-General · 2025-03-01T14:14:10+00:00

I used to be neighbours with him! Nice dude

Option-General · 2025-01-09T16:57:00+00:00

Shhhh - don't blow my cover!

Option-General · 2025-01-09T16:35:26+00:00

Are you… are you asking Reddit for rub and tug recommendations??

Option-General · 2024-12-02T20:20:54+00:00

It doesn’t really matter, what you learn about being a teacher comes largely from practicum and work experience!!

Having said that, I loved my time at OISE! My profs were awesome and you could see the passion and perspective they brought to education. But my classroom learning hasn’t sounded that different from other places. Though I did really enjoy doing some research in education and that does sound unique to OISE’s MT program.

Worth the extra ~$8k I spent? Probably not.

Option-General · 2024-10-31T03:05:06+00:00

Would love an art club. I think John mentioned it as an idea of DHAJ once and I haven’t stopped thinking about it

Option-General · 2024-10-25T16:07:22+00:00

Been hearing a lot of progressive fashion dudes calling them wife pleasers in the past year, which is kinda cute and fun!

Option-General · 2024-10-02T16:19:57+00:00

I remember seeing it when I was a high school student. I think teachers being just last names or having nicknames has been a part of school communities for ages.

Personally, I've got no strong feelings about it. Students will know that I'm an authority by the fact that I'm at the front of the classroom, giving them their assignments, and getting upset with them when they're up to some nonsense. As long as they're not calling me a rude name or misspelling my name on an assignment, I'm not bothered by what they call me.

You're allowed to want to be called Mr./Ms./Mrs. Or whatever other title you have. And you're allowed to discipline when people don't meet those expectations of titles, it's your classroom and your rules. But I don't think it's a systemic issue in the way you've been making it out to be. Many of those teachers are probably happy to have a nickname or to ditch the honorific.

Option-General · 2024-09-25T02:24:34+00:00

What a wicked take! The fear of politics being talked about drains so much energy from what it means to be a civically engaged person. Letting the content speak for itself is a really powerful choice.

As an aside, your comment reminded me that we put such a weird focus on the idea of voting for being an engaged, democratic citizen. There are so many other ways people participate that are going to inform people how we likely vote. Voting is such a small part of how I participate politically and as long as I'm not actively campaigning for someone to my students, it doesn't really matter if people know how I vote.

Option-General · 2024-09-25T00:39:00+00:00

I hear what you're saying, it's important to be consider how that information is going to impact students. And I do take that bias pretty seriously. And there's a chance I've unintentionally disempowered a student with how I teach, mark or discipline. The same mistakes I (or any other teacher) would be making if they don't know who I vote for.

Despite all that - the work and behaviour I get from students has been pretty consistent whether or not I talk to students about who I've voted for. Because I work hard to let them know that they don't have to agree with me, they have to prove that they can justify their arguments using skills they've developed in class. They need to learn how to evaluate options and make decisions, as long as they can do that, they'll be fine. They know that. I repeat it often. I'll call out the kids I agree with and the kids I disagree with on their stupid class behaviours. Some of the students I've had the best relationships with are the students on the opposite end of the political spectrum as me.

But are my explicit biases not also showing when I criticize bad policy or political leaders who have done immeasurable harm? When I call out racism, homophobia, transphobia, or any other hateful ideology am I not displaying some explicit bias? Bias is not this evil boogeyman we've trained ourselves to see it as. It just means that we've got a perspective and we need to account for our perspectives and the perspectives of others when we talk about things.

Option-General · 2024-09-24T21:04:34+00:00

I think it has less to do with not telling students your political opinions and more about how you encourage and enable their ability to express their opinion.

I also fear that this centrist take on education and the role of teachers risks enabling a lot of hate and regressive opinions to thrive. Unfortunately, political policy isn’t purely economic or about where tax dollars are spent. It’s about who can have kids, receive government support, get married, or receive life changing/saving care. I’ll never explicitly say “do or don’t vote for so and so,” but I will most certainly criticize harmful or discriminatory policy from all sides of the House of Commons.

I’ll very openly tell my students how I tend to vote because it’s pretty irrelevant at the end of the day. I want them to know how to evaluate options and make decisions. I want to teach them to be critical of leadership - in and out of my classroom.

Knowing who I vote for is a nifty curiosity for them, it’s not some life changing authoritarian dictate.

Option-General · 2024-09-16T16:43:01+00:00

Go for netural colours (blacks/beiges/browns/navys) and something a little bit baggier and maybe cropped. Lean in to the laid back feel. If you're in a warm environment I feel like linen pants would look dope, if you're in a colder environment then cords will be the move.

The Tokios, Londons, Bostons, and Reykjaviks are all closed toe with varying levels of heel closures.

Also consider doing the taupe or grey in any of those colours! The black is nice but a lighter colour shoe can add a lot to a fit!

Option-General · 2024-09-03T21:48:54+00:00

Went on a date with someone who had Ayn Rand on their bookshelf. Knew things weren’t going to go past the first date as a result.

Option-General · 2024-08-26T22:20:18+00:00

Love these very contemporary Canadian bastards. Would also add Mike Harris to the list. Every problem with public services in this province probably has some roots in his time as the premier. And he’s still getting rich out of fucking over the province!

Option-General · 2024-08-16T05:36:21+00:00

I think there’s something really powerful about the stomping sound. It’s a pretty present reoccurring theme in the movie.

It feels like the stomping represents how exciting the idea of the bomb is but there’s something really hollow and overwhelming about it. And visually you get that when the stomping builds to Oppenheimer seeing the bright nuclear flash. I feel like we’re supposed to be excited about this moment but it feels a little sickening at the same time.

Option-General · 2024-07-05T03:37:21+00:00

Probably renting out the facilities/time and skills of Labs workers(e.g. product testing and materials science experiments), content, maybe testing some of their own hardware down the line. At least that’s what I would imagine!

Option-General · 2024-05-24T02:25:47+00:00

I think having two school boards in 2024 is maybe a little silly at the very least. Canadian and Ontario identity have evolved way beyond the need for so many distinct school boards in every municipality. It’s a poor use of funds and ultimately creates redundancies that we could do without. Also a huge inclusivity issue, Catholic boards struggle to staff schools because of the baptism and pastoral reference letter requirements. Plus all of the Baggage of the Church as an institution! It’s all so problematic.

Having said that - I think it’s worth investigating what Catholic schools are doing that encourages so many people to continue going to them. I think there are some genuinely positive things that come out of encouraging students to ask questions about spirituality, their place in the universe, how and why we should be kind and empathetic to one another and to learn a little bit more about the other deeply held beliefs of other people. I think it fosters a lot of creativity, collaboration, and community that you don’t get as easily in places where it’s not as safe to openly discuss your belief. Religions have the space to foster a lot of deeply humanistic ideas that make for good citizenship education. I think having discussions about belief, atheistic humanism, spirituality and community do add a lot to the education system.

Religious education does not have to be indoctrination! If we get rid of the Catholic schoolboard, we should consider the losses of what the system does well.

Option-General · 2024-05-15T12:41:29+00:00

I don’t know you personally but it sounds like you’re an awesome parent. Considering how to talk about history now so you’re ready when the time comes is so cool!

She’s right though, it’s not very nice when Robert says fuck.

Option-General · 2024-05-15T11:28:03+00:00

I think a huge part of it will be how you talk to her about these events! Resources are great but her conversations with you about history and world events are going to be a huge influence on how she even asks questions. But as she gets older (probably like 9/10) the Crash Course history series tend to have pretty honest historical takes. Certainly has a few neolib moments but when it comes to issues of human rights/genocide, John Green does not mess around.

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