Position: Home Instruction Tutor - up to 16 hours per week

Reports to: Director of Student Services

Employment Status: Part-Time - up to 16 hours per week

FLSA Status: Exempt 

Description: Facilitate learning by providing instruction to home-bound students; teach and present

subject matter accordingly

NOTE: The below lists are not ranked in order of importance

Essential Functions:

• Ensure safety of students
• Teach and evaluate the students using sound instructional practices
• Effectively manage individual student behavior to maintain a good learning environment
• Maintain accurate, complete and correct records as required
• Provide guidance and counsel to the students which will promote their welfare and their proper educational development
• Distribute homework assignments
• Take necessary and reasonable precautions to protect equipment, materials, and facilities
• Demonstrate knowledge of subject matter and present clear, complete and accurate explanations utilizing a variety of instructional techniques and media suitable to the level of learners
• Act as teacher and facilitator
• Identify student needs, helping students solve health, attitude, and learning problems
• Interact in a positive manner with staff, students and parents
• Maintain respect at all times for confidential information, e.g., student grades
• Promote good public relations by personal appearance, attitude and conversation
• Attend meetings and in-services as required
• Observe ethics of the teaching profession; exhibit professional behavior, emotional stability, and sound judgment
• Instruct students in the locations and at the times designated
• Counsel with colleagues, students and parents
• Create an environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of students
• Maintain and improve professional competence
• Utilizing assignments/materials prepared by classroom teachers, tutor students within allowable guidelines

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

• Interact with public in official capacity when required
• Interact with Superintendent and/or Board of Education and present information as requested
• Serve as a role model for students in how to conduct themselves as citizens and as responsible, intelligent human beings
• Respond to routine questions and requests in a timely, appropriate manner
• Establish and maintain cooperative professional relationships
• Attend professional growth seminars, workshops, etc. to keep current on relevant issues
• Instill in students the belief in and practice of ethical principles and democratic values
• Counsel, advise, encourage, and motivate students
• Interact with other departments and school personnel when necessary
• Discipline students when necessary
• Refer attendance, health, and psychological emotional problems to Principal and/or Guidance Counselor
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Building Principal or designee

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in education from an accredited college or university
• Appropriate State of Ohio teaching certifications/license
• Alternative to the above qualifications as Superintendent and/or Board of Education may find appropriate

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of academic area and teaching methodology
• Ability to work effectively with others
• Ability to communicate ideas and directives clearly and effectively both orally and in writing
• Effective, active listening skills
• Organizational and problem solving skills
• General computer skills

Additional Working Conditions:

• Occasional requirement to travel daily 
• Occasional interaction among unruly children
• Occasional exposure to blood, bodily fluids and tissue
• Frequent requirement to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, see, read, speak, reach, stretch with hands and arms, crouch, kneel, climb, and stoop
• Frequent operation of a vehicle in inclement weather conditions, i.e., being prepared to come to work on all scheduled work days, except calamity days 
• Frequent weekend/evening/summer work
• Requirement to lift and/or carry up to a maximum of 75 pounds, and push/pull up to a maximum of 300 pounds, various supplies and/or equipment