The Sarnia-area public school board’s top official says the board shares the concerns of worried parents after a second teacher from the same high school was…
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Publishing date: Feb 05, 2021 • February 5, 2021 • 3 minute read • Ready for an early teaching start. Hope Forman, a University of Windsor Faculty of Education grad student, hopes to be part of the province s plan to help alleviate staff shortages in schools during the pandemic by permitting teacher students to begin classroom instruction before graduation. She s shown here on Feb. 4, 2021. Photo by Nick Brancaccio /Windsor Star
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Hope Forman is ready and willing to start her teaching career.
In her final semester with the Faculty of Education at the University of Windsor, Forman applied for one of Ontario’s new temporary teaching certificates this week in hopes of getting hired as a substitute teacher through an initiative to alleviate teacher shortages.
Student teachers will soon be heading into schools as paid supply teachers, thanks to a rule change by the Ministry of Education to "address labour needs and high rates of staff absenteeism."
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A teacher who engaged in an inappropriate personal relationship with a student in November 2009 has been found guilty of professional misconduct by the Ontario College of Teachers, with her certificate of qualification and registration revoked.
In a nine-page decision recently posted on its website, the college said Nadia Charland, a teacher with Conseil scolaire public du Nord-Est de l’Ontario, engaged in an inappropriate personal relationship with a student between November 2009 and November 2011.
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Charland abused her authority, the college said, and took advantage of the power imbalance between teacher and student.