HillRAP Tutor

Position Title: HillRAP Tutor

Term of Employment: Part-Time; Temporary

Reports To: Principal

Pay Information: $20.00 per hour

General Statement of Job

• Stanly County Schools and Hill Learning Center are looking for individuals (retired teachers, parents, substitutes, etc.) passionate about helping students learn to read. Tutoring will take place at school, during the school day, 3-5 days per week, part-time or full-time depending on tutor availability. Tutors will receive training in the Hill Reading Achievement Program (HillRAP) and a dedicated coach who will provide mentorship through the first year of implementation. All content is included in a web-based app; comfort with technology is required. Tutors will be compensated for training time and tutoring sessions.

Essential Job Functions

Responsibilities

• Remain an employee in good standing with partner school.
• Commit to tutoring students for an entire school year during school day hours.
• Build positive relationships with students, families and colleagues.
• Have a flexible attitude and disposition.
• Accept, implement and grow from feedback.
• Internalize and follow high-impact tutoring models to meet the needs of students.
• Participate in professional learning to gain insights on important aspects of the role.

Early Literacy Instruction and Assessment

• Conduct one-on-one or group tutoring sessions with students.
• Assist children to improve their reading skills and abilities to reach leveled expectations. Maintain a weekly tutoring schedule for students.
• Act on feedback and coaching from school staff and the Hill Learning Center learning team.
• Use materials and activities provided by the partner schools and Hill Learning Center to reinforce literacy concepts introduced by the student's teachers.
• Closely monitor students' progress, capturing and reporting data as assigned by the partner schools.

Communication

• Communicate with students in an age and developmentally appropriate way.
• Professionally communicate with the school leadership regarding student schedules, interventions and student progress.
• Act on constructive feedback provided by the corps member learning team.
• Build professional relationships with school staff and Hill Learning Center staff to maintain good communication and ensure the integrity of the program.
• Read and respond to email communications from Hill Learning Center staff, coaches, and school personnel within 24 hours.
• Ensure confidentiality of student information.

Attendance

• Meet job attendance requirements of assigned public school employers.
• Serve for a full cohort commitment, August through May.
• Attend all required HillRAP training sessions, meetings and coaching sessions.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Commitment to the mission and vision of Hill Learning Center
• Commit to 8 months of service, August through May
• Interest in education, specifically helping young children develop early literacy skills
• Demonstrates genuine care for children and investment in their growth and development
• Flexible and keen ability to adapt.
• Displays teachable attitude
• Personal commitment to success of students and the mission of Hill Learning Center
• Dedication to community service
• Basic computer skills, including the ability to navigate online systems and email (e.g. Google Classroom and Zoom)
• Attention to detail
• Organized, responsible, motivated and professional
• Ability to accept and incorporate constructive feedback from Hill Learning Center and school staff.
• Excellent time management and decision-making skills
• Ability to work with diverse personalities; seeks to learn and understand while developing cultural awareness
• Ability to adapt to a sometimes challenging, evolving environment
• Strong personal standards of excellence, ethics, and integrity

Minimum Training and Experience

• Must be 18 years of age or older by your start date
• Minimum high school diploma, some college preferred
• Must be either a citizen, national, or lawful permanent resident alien of the United States
• Must pass mandatory background checks administered by the public school unit employer
• Must pass mandatory drug screening administered by the public school unit employer
• Speak, read, and write English fluently

Minimum Qualifications or Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions

• Physical Requirements: The work regularly requires standing and walking around the classroom and school. It requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing. The work requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations. The work often requires bending, squatting, reaching, with the ability to lift, carry, push or pull light weights and rarely, the lifting of weights above 30 pounds. The work occasionally handles/works with biohazards and/or risks for potential job-related injury, such as those found in a laboratory or shop environment. The work requires activities occasionally involving driving automotive equipment.
• Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
• Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.
• Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, articles, proposals, contracts, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, evaluations, contracts, policies, handbooks, budgets, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control and confidence.
• Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to give oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including educational and legal terminology.
• Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of descriptive statistics, statistical inference and statistical theory.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.
• Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
• Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
• Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear.) Must be able to communicate via telephone.

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job.