ELEMENTARY TUTOR

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Summary:  Elementary Tutors are responsible for providing supplemental practice through tutoring children in kindergarten through fourth grades to develop early literacy skills. Each day elementary tutors will use a prescribed literacy program to deliver tutoring in small groups to students. This position reports to the Tutor Supervisor.

Qualifications:

• Valid Ohio Educational Aide permit or teaching license
• Interest in education, specifically helping young children develop early literacy skills
• Effective interpersonal skills with children and adults
• An affinity for supporting students as individual learners
• Sound student and classroom management skills
• Ability to improvise and problem solve
• Experience with technology‐integration in the teaching and learning process
• Effective in an interdisciplinary, teamed environment
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Dedication to the mission of assuring student learning and achievement

Professional and Personal Requirements:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills; able to pay careful attention to details
• Able to create, monitor, and maintain systems that enhance the efficiency of the organization
• Able to establish and maintain effective relationships at all levels of the organization
• Able to adapt to a sometimes challenging, high-pressure environment
• Able to perform well on a team
• Able to prioritize and accomplish highest-leverage activities
• Able to improvise and work through uncertainties; strong problem-solving skills
• Able to follow up on key information and obligations
• Able to drive for results and manage shifting priorities with very little direction
• Able to draw attention to and celebrate school-wide, classroom, and student success

Duties/Essential Functions:

• Conduct small group and one-on-one tutoring sessions with students using literacy materials provided by DECA PREP
• Assist children to improve their reading skills and abilities to reach grade level expectations.
• Build a strong rapport with students and communicate with them in an age and developmentally appropriate way
• Regularly review student data to gauge the effectiveness of the literacy intervention being used and determine if a change in strategy is necessary
• Establish and maintain effective communication with parents, teachers, tutors, building leadership, and other key stakeholders to ensure the success of the program
• Act on feedback and coaching from Instructional Coaches, Classroom Teachers, and Building Administrators
• Ensure confidentiality of all student records and diagnostic scores
• Assess, with a high level of accuracy, students’ continual progress through progress monitoring and benchmarking
• Document students’ weekly progress scores and interventions using an online database system
• Demonstrate a positive, supportive, enthusiastic, and encouraging attitude with all students and staff
• Attend faculty meetings and other staff development and planning sessions as determined by the building Principal
• Supervise children in non-instructional situations as assigned
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Terms of Employment:

• Hourly Rate: $18

Working Environment:

Workplace locations include:

• School, activity center, outdoor play areas;
• Other environments as deemed necessary/appropriate.

Physical demands:

While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands, and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl. The employees must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required for this position include close vision, distance vision, and depth perception. 

Additional Working Conditions:

The noise level in this work environment is quiet to loud depending on the activity and location.  

Possible exposure to blood, bodily fluids and tissue

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

The information contained in the job description is in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and is not an exhaustive list of duties performed for the position. Additional duties performed by individuals currently holding the position and additional duties may be assigned.

This position is not exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act