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Certification, Experience and Pay OSSTF Certification Department overview
The OSSTF Certification Department is associated with OSSTF and only certifies public secondary teachers for pay purposes by placing them in a Group. QECO deals with Elementary Public, Catholic and French teachers as well as Catholic and French Secondary Teachers and is an independent body. The OSSTF Certification Department is made up of 6 Senior Evaluators, 1 Junior Evaluator, 3 support staff and the Secretariat Liaison
QECO and OSSTF Certification are significantly different and people switching panels often drop when they go from QECO to OSSTF Certification. QECO has Categories, OSSTF has Groups. QECO and the College of Teachers do not exchange documents with the OSSTF Certification nor we with them.
The OSSTF Regulations are more stringent than those of QECO for academics and more accommodating in recognizing the value work done in the trades by technological teachers. Before contemplating changing panels, elementary teachers should apply for Voluntary Membership and a Certification Rating Statement. The cost of this is $150.00. Taking out a Voluntary Membership may well save someone considering a panel change thousands of dollars by finding out if their Group may change if they change panels. Approval for a Voluntary membership must first be obtained at the District and then at the Provincial level. AMPA (Annual Members Provincial Assembly) sets the Certification Regulations and is the only body that can change the Regulations.
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