Resources
Surveys
Focus on Teaching Survey Reports
Focus on Teaching: A Survey of Ontario Certified Teachers is a new survey. The questions in the survey provide insight into a variety of areas, including the labour mobility of teachers, employment patterns, teacher attrition and demographic information of the entire College membership.
State of the Teaching Profession 2003
Answers to questions on confidence in system, positives and negatives of teaching, good teaching, public affairs, accountability, role of parents, mentoring, age and gender.
State of the Teaching Profession 2004
Answers to questions on teacher's role, testing, most enjoyable, challenging aspects of teaching, confidence in system and gender.
State of the Teaching Profession 2005
Answers to questions on school problems, reforms, career and professional development, multi-year agreement, initial education and public perception of teaching profession.
State of the Teaching Profession 2006
Answers to questions on stress, career planning, changes in education, student success factors, parent-teacher relations, age of consent, voting in College election.
State of the Teaching Profession 2007
Answers to questions on career satisfaction, challenges and retention, professional designation, classrooms, over-supply and cyber-bullying.
Answers to questions on professional standards, Additional Qualifications, associate teaching, College election participation, publication ban, labour mobility and the College magazine.
Annual survey of College members.
Transition to Teaching Reports
Since 2002, the College has been surveying teachers in their first years to see what kinds of jobs they are getting and how they are settling into the profession. Browse through the complete archive.