Literacy Tutor-Niswonger Grant Funded

Project On-Track:
Literacy Tutor

Qualifications:

• Minimum high school diploma or G.E.D.
• 48 semester hours of college credit or score of 456 on Para Pro Assessment
• Meets health and physical requirements

Job Goal:

To provide assistance to teachers, secretaries, and clerical personnel when needed.

Essential Functions:

• Participate in professional trainings for instructional platforms and materials to be used with students.
• Familiarize yourself with resources provided by Project On-Track in Google Classroom.
• Design tutoring sessions based on Project On-Track training and protocols; follow all expected ratios and lesson plans.
• Prepare supporting materials prior to tutoring sessions.
• Possess time management skills so that tutored students may accomplish their goals (finish a lesson each day in Amplify; follow time suggestions in grades 3-5).

Physical Demands:

This job may require lifting of objects that exceed 50 lbs., or the average weight of a child, if assigned to elementary grades, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs. Other physical demands that may be required are as follows:

• Pushing
• Pulling
• Climbing
• Stooping
• Kneeling
• Crawling
• Reaching
• Talking
• Hearing
• Seeing

Vocational Preparation:

The required vocational preparation may come from any of the following:

• Vocational education
• Apprentice training
• On-the-job training
• Essential experience

Temperament (Personal traits):

• Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure
• Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity
• Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria
• Adaptability to dealing with students

Capacity and Ability Requirements:

• Intelligence:
  Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgments
• Verbal:
  Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them.
• Manual Dexterity:
  Ability to move the fingers and manipulate small objects with the fingers rapidly and accurately.
• Form Perception:
  To make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures.
• Color Discrimination:
  Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color.

Work Conditions:

Normal working environment

Terms of Employment:

• 150-day contract, up to 5 hours per day.
• Tutoring pay rate, $30 per hour noncertified, $35 per hour certified.

Immediate Supervisor:
Classroom teacher and/or principal

General Requirements:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so assigned.