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The Applicant Profile
The Applicant Profile is required from all applicants to the Bachelor of Education one-year Initial Teacher Education program and Diploma in Technical Education. It is a vital part of the admission selection process. The Profile must be submitted by the deadline date to OISE/UT and must be accompanied by the Profile Receipt Form and three Letter of Verification Forms, which verify your teaching experiences. Do not enclose or attach letters of reference or a résumé or other material. They will be discarded.
The Applicant Profile can be obtained between Sept 18 until the end of November by requesting an Application Package through the Ontario University Application Centre (OUAC) website: [www.ouac.on.ca/teas] or from our application documents page. It can also be obtained by calling the OUAC voicemail box at (519) 823-1940 ext. 574. It will not be automatically mailed to you. Applicants to the Technological Studies Program must request the Technological Studies Application Handbook as above.
In the Applicant profile you are attempting to demonstrate an undertanding of the teaching profession and of young children or adolescents as learners which has been derived from your experiences. The way in which you complete your Applicant Profile also reveals something of your background and of you as a potential teacher and is a significant demonstration of your professionalism and your communication skills or lack thereof. You should try to be yourself and let your personality come across and avoid a stiff and pretentious presentation.
Part A: Describe three significant teaching or teaching related experiences which relate to your program selection.
You must complete all three sections
(i.e. provide three experiences). Be specific about details of
the three experiences you describe; the time spent, the
age and numbers of people involved, where you were and what you
did. Recent, teaching-related and school-based experiences
with the children or adolescents in the grades in which you hope
to teach is expected. Work with groups is generally better than
work with individuals. Experience in a diversity of settings is
advisable. Work-related and community based experience can be
used however, as with any experience, you must demonstrate its
relevance to teaching and learning.
Part B: For each of your three experiences you outlined in part A, describe insights which you have gained about teaching and learning with reference to your program selection.
This part should be written with reference
to the three experiences you have described in Part A. The Profile
is somewhat like a "written interview", and Part B is
the principal statement of this "interview" and should
reflect what you have come to understand about teaching and learning
(your insights) as a result of your experiences.
Part C: On the basis of your experiences in Part A and your insights in Part B explain how you might contribute to the education of students in today's schools.
In this section, you have the opportunity to articulate how you would contribute to student learning in the classroom and the wider community within schools. Your response should be based on the experiences which you have described in Part A and the insights which you discussed in Part B. You are attempting to demonstrate that through your experiences you have begun to develop an approach to teaching which builds on your insights drawn from your experience.
Part D: What additional information relevant to your potential as a teacher do you wish the committee to consider?
All applicants are expected to complete this section. Tell us anything else you wish us to know about you which is relevant to your potential as a teacher. You might include information about additional teaching related experiences which are not included in Section A. You could add information about your hobbies, travel, other extra-curricular activities, which might help you to stand out as an excellent candidate for the teacher education program.
Part E: Does the OISE/UT Admission Policy Statement apply to you?
Information about the Admission Policy
Statement can be found in Information
Sheet 5, Valuing Differences. If you
think that you qualifiy for one of these categories, you must
explain why this would be a relevant consideration for you as
a teacher. Not all applicants will complete this section
of the Profile.
OISE/UT offers a range of counselling
services to its prospective applicants. For further information
please contact:
the OISE/UT, Registrar's Office, Initial Teacher Education Programs,
Admissions Unit: telephone: 416-926-4701; email: admissions@oise.utoronto.ca;
fax: 416-923-7834. See our Admissions Guide at our website:
>www.oise.utoronto.ca/admissions<.
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