OCT 2016

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a member who had been criminally convicted of sexual assault and sexual interference involving a Grade [XXX] female student.

The member did not attend the hearing.

Relying on the criminal conviction, the Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct, including sexual abuse of a student.

The Committee ordered the revocation of the member's Certificate of Qualification and Registration and directed that his name be published in the College's official publication.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against the member alleging professional misconduct and incompetence.

The member received three consecutive unsatisfactory performance appraisals while teaching a new French curriculum, demonstrating a lack of instructional strategies, ineffective student engagement, and failure to differentiate instruction for students with exceptionalities.

The member pleaded guilty to incompetence based on an Agreed Statement of Facts.

The Discipline Committee accepted the joint submission on penalty, ordering terms, conditions, and limitations on the member's certificate, including the successful completion of an Additional Qualification course and mandatory performance appraisals upon returning to a teaching position.

The Member, a teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct after making an inappropriate sexual comment to a Grade 12 female student and staring at female students inappropriately.

The Discipline Committee accepted the agreed statement of facts and found the Member guilty of professional misconduct, including failing to maintain the standards of the profession and psychological or emotional abuse of a student.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, the completion of a course on professional boundaries, and publication of the decision with the Member's name.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against the Member, an experienced teacher, alleging professional misconduct and incompetence.

The Member received three unsatisfactory performance appraisals during the 2008-2009 school year, demonstrating significant deficiencies in classroom management, planning, teaching methods, adaptive teaching for a student with special needs, and supervision.

The Member also used inappropriate disciplinary measures, such as pulling a chair out from under a student, and failed to adequately supervise students, leading to an incident where students viewed inappropriate content online.

The Discipline Committee found the Member guilty of professional misconduct and incompetence in his absence.

The Committee ordered a reprimand, a three-month suspension, and imposed conditions requiring the Member to complete specific coursework before returning to teaching.

The member, a teacher, acted as a chaperone on a school trip.

During the trip, the member and the students purchased and consumed alcohol, and the students acted disruptively.

The member failed to adequately supervise the students.

The member pleaded no contest to allegations of professional misconduct.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct for failing to maintain the standards of the profession, failing to supervise adequately, and engaging in unprofessional conduct.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a six-day retroactive suspension, and completion of a course on boundaries and supervision.

The Committee also ordered publication of the decision with the member's name, emphasizing the need for specific and general deterrence given the risk to student safety.

The Member, a teacher, pled guilty to professional misconduct for engaging in inappropriate electronic communications with students via Facebook.

The communications involved boundary violations, sharing inappropriate personal information, making derogatory comments about colleagues and other students, and emotionally manipulating students by forcing them to choose between him and their friends.

The Discipline Committee accepted the Agreed Statement of Facts and found the Member guilty of professional misconduct, including verbal, psychological, and emotional abuse.

The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand and publication of the decision with the Member's name, noting that the Member had also entered into an Undertaking and Acknowledgment requiring counselling.

The member, an occasional teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for impersonating his wife to complete her occasional teaching assignments on numerous occasions over a three-year period.

The member used his wife's gender-neutral name to deceive the school board and gain financially.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a nine-month suspension of his teaching certificate, and the completion of a professional ethics course.

The Committee also ordered the publication of the member's name in the College's official publication, finding that the aggravating factors of premeditated, fraudulent conduct for financial gain outweighed the mitigating factors.