Transition to Teaching

February 20, 2013

Another cohort of new teachers swelled the ranks of Ontario’s 30,000+ teachers unable to find regular teaching jobs in 2012. Read our exclusive survey for all the details.

First-year teacher unemployment rose sharply in Ontario in 2012. Job queues lengthened further for new teachers seeking employment in Ontario’s elementary and secondary schools.

With many of those who did find jobs experiencing underemployment throughout the 2011-2012 school year, only one in four of the English-language and just under half of the French-language graduates say they got as much teaching work as they had hoped.

More Ontario graduates are moving to other provinces and other countries to find teaching opportunities. And those who stay in Ontario increasingly take non-teaching jobs to survive financially.

Even three years into their careers, half of this new generation of teachers is still unemployed or underemployed.

New-Canadian teachers have very little success in this glutted job market. Four in five of them say they could not even find any daily supply teaching work after getting their Ontario teaching licenses.