Occasionally Yours

Victoria Park Training Centre

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.

Guest: Colleen Lee, ETFO Collective Bargaining Officer

Bargaining Update

Elections

Door Prizes

Dinner

Please contact Laurie McMillan at 475-5874 or glmcmill@tbaytel.net by Friday, May 25th to confirm attendance.

Please advise of any dietary restrictions.

All members are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting. Colleen Lee will be in attendance with the most current collective bargaining information.

Nominations for Executive positions are:

President: Nancy Nix

Vice President: Nancy Calonego

Secretary: Laurie McMillan

Treasurer: Nancy Calonego

Communications: Leila Desforges

Professional Learning: Diane Hogan

Negotiations: Nancy Nix

Any other nominations can be forwarded to a member of the executive.

Title: Behaviour Management Strategies for the Occasional Teacher

Date: June 05, 2012

Location: Victoria Park

Time: 4:15pm – 6:15pm

Who should attend:

If you are an occasional teacher and want to expand your “bag of tricks” for managing behaviours in the classroom, then this workshop is for you. Come and learn some strategies from your peers that have worked for them. This will be an interactive workshop that will explore scenarios and solutions that we all encounter. You might even have some tricks up your sleeve that you can share too.

Please register in advance by emailing Diane Hogan at dianedhogan@gmail.com.

A light dinner will be served. Also, our meetings are trying to be at “GREEN” as possible, therefore, if you have a reusable coffee cup for the coffee that is provided, please bring it along and help out the environment. THANK YOU!!

MEETING TO APPROVE PRELIMINARY SUBMISSION OF COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT:
Wed. April 25, 2012
4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
DaVinci Centre
340 S. Waterloo St.
Colleen Lee, Provincial Collective Bargaining Officer, will be in attendance to present the preliminary submission, answer questions and conduct vote. All members are welcome.

Title: LITERACY “Let’s talk about it… Oral Language and how it supports learning” PART ONE

Date: Wednesday March 28th, 2012

Time: 4:15pm to 6:15pm

Location: Victoria Park

Presenter(s): Carol Rasmussen & Kali Bernst

This workshop is perfect for the occasional teacher who is either looking for a full-time job and needs to know what the full-time teachers are up to or for the career occasional who wants to keep up-to-date with the most current Literacy techniques that are being used in the classrooms.

Topics to be covered:
Accountable talk – not just a conversation
OLA – take a lesson from me…this does NOT mean hello in Spanish…that would be Hola.
Optimal Learning Model – have you ever wondered what that might look like?
Grand Conversations – let’s learn how that works
Talk Moves
The Power of Talk
…and resources you SHOULD be reading if you are looking to land that job you’ve been waiting for.

Please register by emailing Diane Hogan at dianedhogan@gmail.com. There will be a light dinner served at 5:45pm. Please advise of any dietary requirements when you register.

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Title: “LITERACY… Let’s learn about the newest initiatives that the Board is focusing on” PART TWO

Date: Wednesday April 18th, 2012

Time: 4:15pm to 6:15pm

Location: Victoria Park

Presenter(s): Carol Rasmussen

This workshop is a MUST HAVE for those occasional teachers who are trying to get that full-time job and have little or no experience with the Board or in the classroom on a full-time basis and for the occasional teacher who wants to deliver their literacy lessons using up-to-date best practices.

Carol will talk about what the Board is currently focusing on and will help you understand how this will look in your classroom. She will also help you develop a great answer to the age old interview question, “What will a well balanced literacy program look like in your classroom?”.

Please register by emailing Diane Hogan at dianedhogan@gmail.com. There will be a light dinner served at 5:45pm. Please advise of any dietary requirements when you register.

DATE: Tuesday March 06, 2012

TIME: 4:15 – 6:16pm

PLACE: Victoria Park

PRESENTER: Deanna Hannaford, principal at Woodcrest PS

Topics covered:
What you NEED in your resume.
Expectations of the principals, it’s NOT just who you know.
Scoring system, it’s a reality.
How to prepare for your interview. Studying for your one big chance..
The interview
How to score higher on your interview. There IS a way.
Body language…yes, it counts.
Examples of interview questions with the answers you all want to know.

Please register by contacting Diane Hogan at dianedhogan@gmail.com

A light dinner will be served, please advise of any dietary requirements when you register.