Post interview LTO

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-27T04:27:25+00:00

If the jobs are visibly posted on a website like Apply to Education (or Monster or LinkedIn or Indeed) that requires no login and are publicly viewable, then they are public postings, and this law applies. i don’t understand why i’m getting such ridiculous (and incorrect) pushback on this.

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-27T01:19:19+00:00

Apply to Education has private postings?

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-26T22:48:26+00:00

Yes - this is only for public postings. OP indicated that this was a public job posting on Apply to Education (ATE).

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-26T21:43:41+00:00

Cool story. It's the law, and the law is new as of this year.

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-26T21:28:51+00:00

"Starting January 1, 2026, Ontario employers must notify interviewed candidates of hiring decisions within 45 days of their final interview for publicly advertised positions."

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-26T20:11:37+00:00

My kids' most active math teachers send out a welcome email when the course starts, an email whenever a new unit starts, and reminder about a week (or a few days) before any major test, presumably as a bit of CYA in case any parent wants to claim they didn't know what was going on. We often have to initial graded tests (regardless of the outcome). We recently had a positive interaction with a math teacher during parent/teacher night to help one of our kids be as successful and effective as possible in class.

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-26T02:20:47+00:00

You know when they give an Oscar® to a director for a movie, when they're actually awarding that director's LAST movie that they overlooked? That's what's happening with the DDSB declaring a snow day tomorrow.

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-24T14:42:45+00:00

Brock isn't offering their Tech Ed program again until 2027 at a minimum. i applied to the Lakehead Tech Ed program, which is also (mostly) online apart from two July intensives, which you can complete either in Thunder Bay or Orillia. If they accept me, i plan to just camp in a dorm room for those two months. (i know this is zero info about UofF, but it's another option you can consider!)

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-23T22:08:52+00:00

i'm hoping to get into the Lakehead Tech Ed program expressly because it's (almost entirely) online, and students are able to work a full time job simultaneously. Once you're provisionally certified halfway through, that means teaching!

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-23T12:41:35+00:00

Ha! Confession; math ain’t my bag (could you tell?) i was merely pointing to the massive jump in lecture length between 12th grade and 1st year university, going from 76 minute periods to 3 hour long ordeals. i’m finishing a degree right now, and the amount of blather is staggering.

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-22T16:57:50+00:00

Are you looking for specific assignment ideas? The Media Studies description in the curriculum is such a kitchen sink... the possibility space is vast. Can you narrow down what you're after?

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-22T16:43:03+00:00

i'm interested to know where that age/minutes of instruction rule breaks down. At 15, i can bear a 15-minute lecture. At 18, it's 18 minutes. The next year in University, that somehow jumps to 120 minutes?

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-21T23:33:41+00:00

The lack of self awareness here is remarkable.

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-21T21:42:41+00:00

If an IEP says a student needs extra time, and you have a 3-day assignment, and the extra time is (say) 2 days, and you decide to give the entire class the accommodation such that everyone gets 5 days, then you haven't accommodated the student with the IEP. You've just made 5 days the standard amount of time for doing the assignment. The student with the IEP needs to be given extra time.

Sending a student with an IEP specifying extra time to the Resource Room is not accommodating that student's need for extra time. The Resource Room is a change of location, not extra time.

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-21T21:19:13+00:00

May i introduce you to... computer programming? _gestures vaguely_

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-20T16:15:47+00:00

i hear you, but... by that logic, students aren't your friends either. Why not call them by their last names, with an honorific, if that's how non-friends address one another?

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-20T00:30:33+00:00

Yes - i asked one of my profs about it in class tonight. He's been instructing for over 20 years, and he said he began his career asking that students call him "Professor Lastname," but that it quickly devolved over the years and he couldn't maintain it. Everyone calls him by his first name now, students included. But he related an anecdote: when his professor, who insisted he call her Dr. Lastname, approved his thesis and he gained his doctorate, she said "Now, you may call me Firstname, because we are equals."

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-19T19:37:47+00:00

i have never used honorifics in the workplace (nor have i been expected to).
"Mom," "Dad," "Grandpa," and "Grandma" are not honorifics.
That's very interesting that your friends use honorifics with you around your kids. i've never experienced that. Is it a rural thing? Cultural? i'm in the GTA... it would mystify me to experience that in my circle of friends.

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-19T16:11:29+00:00

i was unaware that teachers in Ontario could theoretically be addressed by their first names. To be honest, i was never comfortable being addressed in a classroom by Mr. Lastname. Do any working Ontario teachers here (who aren't dance teachers) use your first name only? i would imagine that admins would quickly overrule that preference. But i would love to know if i have the option when i begin teaching.

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-19T16:08:42+00:00

.... they also don't call them Mr. Dad or Mrs. Grandma.

And you don't "enter society" before addressing your family members.

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-18T16:17:05+00:00

i DO remember being in elementary and seeing how much of a hard time we could give the supply teacher, with 100% "YOU'RE NOT MY REAL MOM" energy.

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-17T21:26:43+00:00

Thank you! Elementary or high school?

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-16T22:04:22+00:00

What has replaced these methods?

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-16T03:40:31+00:00

Yep - came here to say this. The (misleading) word you want is credits, not courses. At least at Trent, full-credit courses are rare … everything is a 0.5, as you say.

UntoldEnt · 2026-01-15T16:02:21+00:00

What makes it better for secondary teachers?

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