Reports To: Department Director/Building Administrator
FSLA Status: Non-Exempt
Compensation: Hourly
Work Days: Varies
FTE: Varies
Tutor
Assists students with learning, understanding, and comprehending materials that the teachers have presented to them. Motivating pupils to develop skills, attitudes and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation for education, in accordance with each pupil’s ability; and establishing good relationships with parents and with other staff members.
Essential Duties:
- Works with teaching staff to identify areas in which tutoring assistance will be needed for each individual student.
- Assists students with learning by reviewing content with them, explaining how to solve problems and checking completed work.
- Helps students develop study skills and organization techniques to help improve their academic performance.
- Keeps necessary reports on students and shares those reports with supervisors, teachers and parents.
- Supervises groups of students, and serves as a role model.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Job Specifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.
- Bachelor’s in education or a related field required.
- Oklahoma Teaching Certification in Elementary Education in subjects listed below or subjects or Alternative Teaching Certification as approved by Oklahoma State Department of Education required.
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Early Childhood (PK-3)
- Elementary Education (1-8)
- Previous experience in an urban school setting preferred.
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
- Must possess a passion for helping students learn and have the knowledge and skills to help students find new ways to look at difficult skills and concepts.
- Must have patience, a positive attitude, and know ways to motivate students when they become frustrated by material they do not understand.
- Able to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time,
- Exhibit manual dexterity to enter data into a computer,
- Ability to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids,
- Hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone,
- Speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors and on the telephone,
- Physical agility, able to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk and reach
- Ability to lift, push, pull up to 50 pounds
