Ontario. Teacher Education Branch

• Teacher Education Branch

• Ontario. Teacher Training Branch

• Ontario. Teacher Education and Certification Branch

• Ontario. Teacher Education Section

The Teacher Training Branch of the Ontario Department of Education was established in 1956, continuing many of the functions of the former Professional Training Branch, with the exception of responsibility for the School for the Deaf and the Ontario School for the Blind, which were transferred to the Special Services Branch. In 1958/59, the name of the Teacher Training Branch was changed to the Teacher Education Branch, and in 1965 a reorganization resulted in the Professional Development Branch becoming the Professional Development Division of the Teacher Education Branch. In 1972, the branch was renamed the Teacher Education and Certification Branch. In 1977 the branch again became the Teacher Education Branch.

On May 5, 1979, the branch was transferred to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities. In 1980, the Registrar Services Section of the Ministry of Education was transferred to the Teacher Education Branch, resulting in an increase in branch responsibilities. In 1984, this section (now known as the Registrar Services Unit) was transferred back to the Ministry of Education. With reduced responsibilities, the Teacher Education Branch became the Teacher Education Section of the University Relations Branch. As a result of the restructuring of the Ministry of Colleges and Universities in April 1992, the University Relations Branch, including the Teacher Education Section, was dissolved. The functions of the Section were assumed by the Ministry of Education's Centre for Teacher Education.

The Teacher Education Branch approved and reviewed programs of both preservice and in-service teacher education offered by teachers' colleges (the last teachers' college was closed in 1979) and faculties of education in Ontario universities. The branch also set policy regulations relating to the certification of teachers, vice principals, principals, and supervisory officers.

Beginning in 1980, when the Registrar Services Section of the Ontario Ministry of Education became part of the branch, the branch began to administer the issuance of teachers' certificates and secondary school diplomas, the awarding of scholarships at the elementary and secondary school levels, and the evaluation of records of Grade 13 students who were eligible for the Ontario Student Scholarship program. The Ministry of Education assumed these functions again in 1984 when the section (now called the Registrar Services Unit) was transferred to the Ministry of Education's Evaluation and Supervisory Services Branch.

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