Quality Assurance Committee

The Quality Assurance Committee is a special committee of Council mandated to assess the performance of the College relative to the 11 objects, or purposes, set out for the College in the Ontario College of Teachers Act. In 2009, the mandate of the committee was revised in the College bylaws to reflect the additional opportunities pursued by the committee in support of these objects.

In 2009, the committee completed its three-year review of the objects and presented a positive final report to Council on the College’s achievement of its objects. The committee also completed its review of the membership and workload of Council committees and, in recommending a status quo approach to Council, confirmed that committees are supporting the achievement of these 11 objects.

Additional work undertaken by the committee included a review of the Annual Meeting of Members format. As a result of this review, a new format will be introduced for 2010. At the request of Council, the Quality Assurance Committee of the fifth Council has initiated a review of the Executive Committee’s mandate and membership.

The committee also saw the realization of the professional designation for members of the Ontario College of Teachers with an official launch in September 2009 and the finalization of the trademark process in December 2009. Both the English and French designations – Ontario Certified Teacher or enseignante agréée de l’Ontario / enseignant agréé de l’Ontario, as well as their abbreviations – are now official marks of the College for the exclusive use of its members in good standing.