If this is your very first week teaching as a certified professional teacher, welcome to a wonderful profession. Perhaps these are your first days teaching in a new district, if you recently moved communities. Or you may be teaching a new grade for the first time, a new curriculum area, or exploring new teaching strategies. A life in teaching is full of new beginnings and changing circumstances. Our colleagues are […]
The first hot, hot days of early July brought 60 educators and 30 school districts together for the second Mentorship Institute at UBC. The Institute was sponsored by the New Teacher Mentoring Project, the provincial initiative of the BCTF, UBC and the BCSSA and funded through the Ministry of Education. Arriving mostly in teams of two, educators made the journey from all regions of the province to learn about educative […]
There is a new provincial specialist association (PSA) for TTOCs and New Teachers. The BC Early Career Teachers’ Association (BCECTA) has been created for teachers by teachers with the objective of serving as a “dedicated resource for new and early career teachers in British Columbia.” To learn more, click here. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BCECTA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BCECTA Website: https://bcecta.wordpress.com/
