Welcome! We are excited you have shown interest in joining our instructional team. This Handbook is intended to help orient you to our schools and our community. It is important that you have knowledge of where you will be living for the next year or maybe years. Adaptation and adjustment are key factors to becoming part of our community. This is an introduction to your new home and teaching place.
We want to help you prepare for an interesting and new life in a unique community and for teaching in a new cross-cultural and English as a Second Language teaching environment.
I want to acknowledge the school administration, teachers, leadership and the Board of Education who participated in compiling this Handbook. We have seen so many of our colleagues struggle to adjust to our culture that we felt a handbook such as this would be very helpful and necessary. We would like to provide more detailed information and all about our community but that would be short of writing a book. This Handbook is an introduction to our schools and to what life is like in Wollaston Lake. It is intended to orient teachers to our community by:
With the help of teachers, support staff, parents, elders, leadership, and community members, this Handbook is designed to assist teachers in the orientation process.
Our community had input in the contents of this Handbook as well.
Findings are based on teacher interviews and discussions from previous orientations in developing this Handbook. Have a great teaching year and remember:
If you have any questions, concerns, doubts, just ask and do not assume!
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