NATIVES Program Tutor

Eugene School District 4J; Eugene (OR); On-site; USD 17,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

The NATIVES Program Tutor for Eugene School District 4J is a temporary on-site position designed to support K-12 students with core subjects through one-on-one and small group tutoring. The tutor provides review, practice, and reteaching, building confidence and study skills while aligning with classroom goals and rubrics.

Key duties include coordinating with administrators to schedule sessions, setting achievable goals with students, and delivering timely positive feedback.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma required.
• Strong communication and positive feedback skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with NATIVES Program Administrator to determine location, times, and subjects for tutoring sessions. Communicate concerns to the NATIVES Program Coordinator.
• Collaborate with students to set reasonable, achievable, and value-added goals and celebrate achievement.
• Work with classroom teachers to obtain rubrics, practice guides, or missing work in order to assist and support the student.
• Provide positive, timely and meaningful feedback to students.
• Support key concepts, especially those learned in the classroom
• Provide feedback to students, using positive reinforcement techniques to encourage, motivate, or build confidence in students.
• Review learning material with students; discussing text, working solutions to problems, or reviewing worksheets or other assignments.
• Participate in training and development sessions to improve tutoring practices or learn new tutoring techniques.
• Maintains regular and prompt attendance.

Skills

Communication

Professionalism

Reliability

Teamwork

Adaptability

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

This is a temporary position working student attendance days.

The purpose of the NATIVES Program Tutor is to support and assist k-12 students in understanding key academic subjects and concepts through review, practice, re-framing and reteaching one-on-one or small group lessons that cater to individual student and/or group needs. Through the use of positive and constructive feedback, this position is designed to help students build robust study habits and skills intended to build student confidence and improve academic performance. By expanding study strategies, note-taking skills and teaching different approaches to answering questions, this position may be tasked with supporting student efforts to complete homework assignments, academic projects, test preparation, papers, research and other academic tasks.

Assignment Duties

This is not necessarily an exhaustive or all-inclusive list of responsibilities, skills, and duties associated with this position. The supervisor of this position may modify this list at any time it’s deemed necessary.

1. Partner with NATIVES Program Administrator to determine location, times, and subjects for tutoring sessions. Communicate concerns to the NATIVES Program Coordinator.
2. Collaborate with students to set reasonable, achievable, and value-added goals and celebrate achievement.
3. Work with classroom teachers to obtain rubrics, practice guides, or missing work in order to assist and support the student.
4. Provide positive, timely and meaningful feedback to students.
5. Support key concepts, especially those learned in the classroom
6. Provide feedback to students, using positive reinforcement techniques to encourage, motivate, or build confidence in students.
7. Review learning material with students; discussing text, working solutions to problems, or reviewing worksheets or other assignments.
8. Participate in training and development sessions to improve tutoring practices or learn new tutoring techniques.
9. Maintains regular and prompt attendance.

This position has the following expectations and prerequisite abilities.

1. Present self and 4J in a professional manner including: in oral and written communication, professional disposition when working with others and maintaining professional dress standards.
2. Ability to effectively communicate, disseminate, and effectuate verbal or written communication and directives to a diverse group of administrators, staff, and the broader district community.
3. Demonstrated knowledge of academic best practices for specific subjects and assignments, including research and writing tactics.
4. Establish and maintain professional boundaries and positive relationships with students and families.
5. Reliability, dependability, patience and compassion.
6. Ability to demonstrate creativity and flexibility in order to personalize their learning approach for individual students.
7. Maintain a high degree of professionalism, integrity, dependability and maintain a high level of confidentiality in accordance with FERPA and adherence to the competent and ethical educator practices.
8. Promotion of equity and diversity in all settings and processes and a commitment to anti-racists principles.
9. Maintain compliance with state and federal laws governing all aspects of our agency including ORS, OAR, IDEA, FOIA, and CIPA.
10. Exceptional prioritization of tasks, timely completion of work assignments, ability to take the initiative and work independently with minimal supervision.
11. Demonstrates respectful, flexible and effective teambuilding skills of cooperation, communication and active participation.
12. Ability to understand and follow oral and written directives, find requested data and present in user-friendly formats for internal and public distribution.
13. Maintain regular attendance at work. Be punctual in meeting deadlines, attending meetings, and following schedules.

• High School Diploma

An AFFIRMATIVE Action / Equal Opportunity Employer

The Eugene School District 4J does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, color, national origin, gender, age, disability, marital or family status, sexual orientation, gender identity in admission or access to the treatment of employment in its programs and activities as required by state and federal law. If you have any complaints, please contact the HR Department at [phone].

It is the District's policy to provide qualifying veterans and disabled veterans with preference in employment in accordance with applicable law. Applicants wishing to claim veterans' preference must provide the following military documents verifying their eligibility:

Veterans: A copy of the applicant's Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (a federal DD Form 214 or 215), which shows character of service upon discharge OR a letter from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs indicating the applicant receives a non-service connected pension.

Disabled Veterans: A copy of the applicant's Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (a federal DD Form 214 or 215), which shows character of service upon discharge AND a copy of the applicants veteran's disability preference letter from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (unless the information is included on the DD Form 214 or 215).

For veterans' preference to apply, the required military documents must be submitted to the District at the time of application submission.