This section provides updates on licensing and qualification requirements,
notification of Council resolutions and reports from various Council committees,
including reports on accreditation and discipline matters.
Council Meetings
At its October 1 and 2, 2020, video-conference meeting, College Council:
received a quarterly report from the Deputy Registrar;
received a quarterly report from the Chair;
revised the mandate of an Ad Hoc Committee considering the issue of membership with the Ontario College of Teachers for all teachers of private schools who teach the Ontario curriculum hired after December 1, 2022, as a condition of the annual notice of intention to operate;
approved a professional advisory on Professional Boundaries for release;
amended the Ontario College of Teachers Scholarship Program to create an additional award for resilience in the name of former College Registrar Brian P. McGowan. The program's four awards are now $1,500 each;
approved the Protocol on Council Member Attendance at Consultations and Focus Groups Related to Council Initiatives;
approved an updated Council, Committee and Panel Member Harassment and Discrimination Policy;
approved a framework for the development, review and distribution of professional advisories;
approved an updated policy on Council Member Application for Employment with the College;
approved a policy governing scholarship donations;
approved the updated Council spokesperson policy;
approved Guidelines for the Provision of Laptop Computers and Accessories for Council Members;
authorized renewing all existing borrowing facilities with the Bank of Montreal and acknowledged that all existing security, including the existing collateral mortgage security, continues to be pledged to the bank;
approved that a regular standards-based teacher education section be included in Professionally Speaking/Pour parler profession, supporting ongoing professional learning for teachers as reflected in the Professional Learning Framework for the Teaching Profession;
recommended to the Minister of Education that a new American Sign Language as a Second Language Additional Qualification course be enacted in Schedules A and C of the Teachers' Qualifications Regulation;
recommended to the Minister of Education that a new Langue des signes Québécoise langue seconde Additional Qualification course be enacted in Schedules A and C of the Teachers' Qualifications Regulation;
appointed Bob Cooper, OCT, as Chair of the Accreditation Appeal Committee for the balance of the eighth Council;
approved a recruitment plan for the position of Registrar and Chief Executive Officer;
appointed Chantal Côté, OCT, as Chair of the Editorial Board for the duration of the term of eighth Council;
recommended to the Minister of Education that a new Additional Qualification course on anti-Black racism be enacted in the Teachers' Qualifications Regulation;
approved regulatory amendments to add technical qualifications to a member's Certificate of Qualification and Registration; and
approved a proposed regulatory amendment to the College's professional misconduct regulation to reflect making remarks or engaging in behaviours that expose any person or class of persons to hatred on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination under Part I of the Human Rights Code.