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Seeing at all the previous post, contacting them appears to be pointless. You are just going to get a typical email telling to to wait it out even more. Most people I know in my cohort volunteered at TDSB schools, privately tutored, or worked for an afterschool company like Mathenesium or Oxford Learning. It doesn't need to be paid, just make sure to get a professional letter of reference from your supervisor. You'll need one for both academics and professional experience. If you are going into 3rd year, consider reading this to get an early acceptance into MT. https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/mt/UserFiles/File/MT_Combined_Degree_Program_Nov_9_2017-letter.pdf

There is no point in checking the SGS website. I got my acceptance from March 1st last year, and it still shows as "under review" to this day.

According to https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/orss/Newly_Admitted_Students/Respond_to_your_offer_of_admission.html "Occasionally an offer of admission is presented very close to the June 1 deadline or later. If so, the tuition deposit should be paid within seven business days from the date on the offer of admission."

Gen sci and bio are oversupplied yes, not so much the other sciences according to the OCT 2016 report (see attachment). As far as marketable teachables goes, I believe that French, Special Ed, and Physics are all incredibly in high demand. Math, chemistry and music are followed close behind. Math with french immersion will pretty much 100% guarantee that you have a teachers job right out of the gate.

I think the math class had about 15-20 this year. It varies from time to time. Science has their own classes, and is split into 4 (general, biology, chemistry, physics). Its quite odd for math to be this low though, considering that OCT licences for I/S math is the 2nd most abundant certification after I/S English. Math is just unpopular at OISE for some reason, go figure. As for cohorts, all cohorts have the same workload and opportunities with the exception of 2 special cohorts. The special P/J Ryerson cohort, and the special I/S University of Toronto Schools cohort. These two cohorts take their classes not at OISE, but actually inside schools you may be teaching at. There are additional course loads associated with these two cohorts, and there is an additional application if you want to get in. For example, there were paid internships exclusively available to us, but there are discussions about expanding internships to regular cohorts next year.

I can really only speak for I/S highschool teaching, so things might be different for other concentrations. Here was my experience for 1st year: Your teachable subjects: My primary teachable was chemistry, and my secondary teachable was biology (biochem major FTW). I had my chemistry course for first year (since its my primary), and will be taking biology come next year. Workload You take 5 courses per semester, 4 of which are with people in your cohort. People who wish to receive additional certification to teach in catholic boards will be required to take a 6th course in religious education. The people in your cohort will be your classmates in every single class, minus your subject course and a few electives in year 2. Assignments and evaluations THERE ARE NO TESTS FOR ANY CLASSES!!! There are however, a crap ton of ESSAYS AND PRESENTATIONS! Get ready to read lot of research papers on teaching pedagogies and techniques. Your subject courses teaches you how to TEACH your subject. It is assumed that you already know your field. With the intense writing assignments, lots of math and science majors will feel disadvantaged compared to their social science and humanities counterparts. The good thing is that grades do not really matter. School boards don't really care about your GPA, only your practice teaching reports. Practice Teaching (Practicum) This is probably the most important evaluation in the entire program. You do 4x one-month terms of practice teaching inside schools, aided by an experienced teacher. This is where most people realize whether or not teaching is for them, you typically see a couple of people drop out after the 1st placement. Personally, I found this to be the best part of the program. It was rough at first, but then you get used to organizing daily lessons and understand what it means to be a real teacher.

For 18 of the 20 credits you take, yes. The classes you get is dependent on your teachable subjects, your grade concentration, and your cohort. For the remaining 2 credits, you choose electives within the larger pool of OISE programs outside of MT (ie. you may be in classes with MA and PhD students).

Year 1 students do not have electives or course selection avalible. Thats for year 2s only.

Congratz! I did my undergrad here in the UofT downtown campus too! Don't forget to apply for the special Ryerson P.S. cohort (if you're P/J) and UTS cohort (if I/S). We get extra paid internship opportunities over other cohorts! OISE has also just released the finalized spring/summer schedules for current MT students, after being whopping 2 months late. Looks like they are mailing out acceptance letters physically through envelopes.

Something must have happened with the OISE administrative staff or something. All of the current MT students have yet to receive their course schedules for the spring/summer semesters, which was promised to be released 2 months ago. People are still waiting to see their schedules to see if they can apply for jobs in the summer... Apparently, the staff is STILL making emergency last minute changes for us current students. I suspect that a similar problem is causing delays for prospective student admissions.

As a current MT student, I would highly doubt that GPA plays a huge factor. Most of my colleagues were in the 3.3 to 3.6 range. I had two friends from UofT undergrad apply with 3.9 and 4.0 cGPA, both of which were surprisingly rejected last year. I think GPA was more of a minimum requirement, beyond that they value your SI letter and your teaching experience more.

I was accepted last year around March 4th for I/S chemistry and biology. I was also accepted into the specialized UTS cohort after another set of additional applications (optional to apply, but I highly recommend to apply to this cohort after you are accepted for MT). This cohort provides various additional opportunities that other cohorts miss out on. Speaking with some of the instructors that read through the application, they mostly wanted to see your how your philosophy of teaching developed from your experiences (hence questions #2 and #3 on the Statement of Intent letter). As far as grades go, OISE only looks at your sessional GPA from your most recent year. From what I recall, most of my colleagues had around A- or B+ averages.