Notice of Availability of Professional Year Letters For Your Portfolio - ONLY UNTIL MONDAY MARCH 16th, 2015

Attention All Professional Year B.Ed Students:

Effective Monday January 5th, 2015 the Education Administration Team will make available (upon request) specific letters for inclusion in each student's personal portfolio.

What Professional Year Letters Can Be Requested?

PERSONALIZED LETTERS (with associated fee) are available:

1) Letter of Eligibility/Good Standing

What Is It?

This is a letter acknowledging your enrollment in the program while program is in progress, speaks of upcoming convocation in June 2015, if  you meet all of the B.Ed degree requirements. (This letter is recommended should there be a delay in processing your official OCT certification. Should you wish to start applying for teaching opportunities while you wait for your official cert # from OCT, this letter is a good addition to any application.)

Why Do I Need This Letter?

The letter of eligibility/good standing will also come in handy if:

·  You are planning on applying or registering for AQs with different institutions

·  You are pursuing a teaching opportunity abroad or in another province, and you need proof you will earn your B.Ed degree to apply, before convocation or receiving your OCT certification #

·  You are pursuing a local teaching opportunity and you need proof you will earn your B.Ed degree to apply, before convocation or receiving your OCT certification #

IMPORTANT NOTE:

If you are a student who has not satisfied all program academic requirements,  or have not successfully completed and/or deferred your first  or second placement, you will not qualify for this letter. 

Similarly, if you are a student who has not yet successfully passed the Math Competency Exam, you must wait to request this letter until the results from the March sitting of the Math Competency Exam are announced.

2) Religious Education Elective Letter

What Is It?

This is a letter of confirmation of attendance upon successful completion of the Religious Education elective (EDUC 3236). 

This letter may be necessary when applying to specific Catholic School Boards, as a new teacher. 

(It is up to you to complete the research to determine if it would be of benefit to you.)

NOTE: 

If you are enrolled in a WINTER offering of this course, we will not generate a EDUC 3236 letter for students until a FINAL Mark is awarded.

GENERIC LETTERS(no associated fee) are available:

3) Math Competency Letter

What is It?

This is a letter that outlines the intent of the EDUC 4050 course, acknowledging that LU is the only Faculty of Ed to make successful completion of this course a requirement to graduate. Bulk copies of this letter are available for all Professional Year students in the Education Administration Office.

How To Obtain Your Letters:

Come in person to the Education Administration Office in Heritage Place to pick up the letters you desire.
The cost for each letter is: $5.00 per letter & monies must be received at the time the each letter is surrendered.

PLEASE COME PREPARED WITH EXACT MONIES IF PAYING WITH CASH.

Accepted Payment: Cash or a Money Order payable to "Lakehead University"

Should you request a letter late in the year, and are unavailable to pay for it and claim it in person, we would ask that you ensure that you make arrangements to send us a Money Order and a postage paid return envelope (complete with desired return address), and we will expedite your request.

The Education Administration Office will only make these letters available to all 2014/2015 students until: Monday March 16th, 2015. 

Any requests for any of these letters received after this date, may not be fulfilled.

Regards,
Julie