Tutor - Instructional -Districtwide

Instructional Tutor

This class is accountable for providing tutoring services and educational support to students who are academically at-risk.

The following identifies the primary and essential functions of the position and is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of all duties:

• Answers questions on course content, and aids in the comprehension of course materials
• Builds math skills
• Collaborates with the classroom teacher and specialists in providing appropriate academic tutoring services and feedback
• Communicates with students, parents, and teachers, regarding students' overall performance
• Facilitates academic and enrichment activities
• Generates and corrects material to reinforce skills identified as weak and in need of reinforcement
• Helps individual students or small groups of students with homework
• Helps students develop a positive attitude toward learning, productive study skills, and remediate skill deficits to achieve success in school, as well develop self-confidence
• Keeps accurate, daily logs of student participation, progress, and attendance
• Maintains a daily log of students receiving services which would include progress reports, problems, concerns and other observations
• Observes, records, and charts academic and social emotional progress
• Participates in professional development activities and program related meetings
• Performs in-class tutoring services in Math, Reading, Language Arts and other academic areas as needed
• Plans and facilitate tutoring and skill development for program participants
• Polls the teachers to try to establish areas of difficulty experienced by students
• Prepares the program environment for learning activities
• Provides individualized programmed materials
• Provides specialized instruction in individual subject areas
• Submits student information as needed
• Supports classroom teachers and other faculty to provide academic instructions to students
• Works one-on-one and in small group instructional settings
• Works with audio-visual equipment, computers and/or assistive technology
• Works with the teachers to establish remedial groups that may be serviced in the classroom
• Performs other related work as assigned

Employees appointed to positions in this class must have adequate physical strength, stamina, physical agility and visual and auditory acuity and must maintain such physical fitness as to be able to perform the duties of the class. A physical examination may be required.