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TTOC MEETING

FDTA TEACHERS TEACHING ON CALL

MINI GUIDE

2009/2010

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FDTA TTOC Mini Guide.htm

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        Teachers Teaching on Call (TTOC)

Welcome T.T.O.C.s of the Elk Valley! I am Mike Kelly your local representative.

Please feel free to contact me at repttoc@yahoo.ca for any questions, concerns or comments.

Best wishes for the 2009/2010 school year!

The stated intention of the employer is that all teachers will use the call-out service to request a TTOC. It is the expectation that AO’s/secretaries will follow the same process.

Teachers are to refrain from contacting TTOC’s directly and offering them work.

TTOC’s, please refrain from accepting offers of work directly from your colleagues. Teachers do not hire and we do not fire TTOC’s. I advise all TTOC’s to direct teachers who are offering them work face-to-face to contact the call out service as per the employer’s directive.

It is the long standing policy of the FDTA that teachers do not provide the name(s) of ‘preferred TTOC’s’ to the Call out service. The Call out of TTOC’s in the Elk Valley/South Country should be on a fair and equitable rotational basis.

Sooner rather than later, TTOC’s record of work (for pay and seniority purposes) will be based on the records of the ‘call out service’. TTOC’s who accept work outside of the call out service will risk NOT BEING PAID FOR THE WORK THEY DO.

TTOC call out should be on a rotational basis, except for those who choose to not accept work in every school. There is a real possibility that those TTOC’s who create a narrow group of schools/grades/days etc that they are available for work may not have the same number of call out opportunities as those who offer to work in every school.

Working as a TTOC differs from “regular” teaching, but TTOCs will use all their training and then some.  A TTOC handbook has been put together for the FDTA and is available at the FDTA office.  This guidebook includes general information for the TTOC plus some specific information for TTOCs in the Elk Valley.  What follows has been taken from the TTOC Handbook and relates to expectations and professionalism of both the TTOC and the classroom teacher.

 What is expected of the TTOC

• Maintain a controlled classroom environment in which to teach and to learn.
• To the best of your ability, try to cover what the teacher has planned for the day.
• Mark any objective student work done that day unless otherwise instructed by the teacher.  In primary classrooms, most marking can be done while the students work.  Marking subjective student work should only be done if the teacher has left criteria by which to do this, preferably with examples.  You may need to remain after school to complete marking.  Record marks in the teacher’s record book if requested, otherwise leave the marked material on the desk or where the teacher will easily see it when he/she returns.  Do not return unrecorded marked work to the students unless directed to by the teacher.
• Supervise the students in all activities unless they are under the supervision of another teacher.  Do not leave them unattended, whether in the hallway, cloakroom, classroom, at assemblies or between classrooms.
• Report any major incidences or safety concerns about student behaviour to the Administration, with a written copy for the office, the absent teacher and you.
• Plan the next day’s work as best as you can, provided there are resources left that you can find and use.
• Leave a written note for the teacher with details about how the day went and any concerns that were directed to the Administration.
• Put things back where you got them from and leave the room neat and tidy.

What the TTOC should expect

• Assistance, support and information, as needed, from school staff and administration.
• A complete plan with enough work for the day and readily available resources necessary to carry it through.
• Students’ names listed who participate in various events such as lunch programs, student helpers, bus riders, etc.
• Information on any discipline “programs” used in the classroom or school.
• Information on students with Special Needs, including who they work with, when, and where e.g. a T.A., District Specialists such as Visual or Hearing Impaired, Speech Therapist, Youth Worker, Learning Assistance, etc. as well as how you should respond to certain situations that may likely happen.
• Resources or their locations needed to complete a day plan for the next day.  (Including a class timetable, a daybook with at least a couple of weeks of previous days’ planning to use for cross-referencing and consistency, texts and other material generally used in the classroom from day to day.)
• The teacher will leave a current seating plan.

The SD5’s webpage at the following address: http://www.sd5.bc.ca/index.asp contains information including but not limited to the following:

- Schools: Addresses, phone numbers, principals and school websites.

- Annual School Calendar for 2009/10

- Board of Trustees

- Job opportunities

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