Our Faculty
Teachers chosen for patience.
Every teacher at Vaughan College is Ontario-certified and chosen for the depth of their subject and the patience of their pedagogy.
How We Teach
How our teachers teach.
Every member of our faculty is certified by the Ontario College of Teachers and dedicated to the subject they teach. We hire subject-deep specialists rather than generalists, because a senior chemistry class deserves a chemist and a senior English class deserves a reader. The Ontario curriculum is the spine of every course, what changes, classroom to classroom, is the texture: the discussions, the worked problems, the patient minute spent with the student who hasn’t put a hand up yet.
Classes are small by design, a ten-to-one student-to-teacher ratio is the norm rather than the exception. That commitment shapes who we hire. A teacher who would thrive lecturing to forty students is, often, a different kind of teacher than the one who can sit beside a pair of students and rebuild an algebra foundation from the ground up. We hire for the second kind. Our lessons are conversational, and we treat a student’s question as part of the lesson rather than a detour from it.
The work continues after the bell. Our free after-school tutoring is open to every student who wants it, whether or not they are struggling, and it costs nothing extra. It is simply part of how we organize the day, and our teachers stay as long as a student needs them.
What We Ask
The standards behind every hire.
These are the standards every teacher takes on when they join our faculty, and the bar we hold ourselves to with your child.
Certified specialists in their subject
Our senior sciences are taught by scientists and our senior English by readers, each one certified by the Ontario College of Teachers.Here after the bell
Our free after-school tutoring is open to every student who wants it, whether or not they are struggling, at no extra cost.A conversational classroom
Lessons move through worked problems and guided debate, and they slow down to rebuild a foundation whenever a student is missing one.We know every student by name
A ten-to-one ratio means our teachers know each student’s weak spots, the courses they need next, and the universities they hope for.
In The Classroom
What our care looks like day to day.
Families notice it first in the small things: a teacher who stays after class to finish a problem, a handwritten note on a returned essay, a phone call home before parents have to ask. This is simply how we set the school up to work.
I was never once encouraged to leave after my tutoring sessions, even if I needed more help. The teachers genuinely care about our success and want us to excel in everything we do.
Adam Szocs — Alumnus, Grade 12
Come Meet Us
Meet the teachers in person.
The best way to understand how Vaughan teaches is to sit in on a class. Tours are arranged by appointment throughout the year and can be built around the subject area your child cares most about, so you can talk with the teachers who would be teaching them.