Title Tutor

SUMMARY: To assist the teacher in achieving objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assist the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interest, and abilities.
• Operate and care for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Help student's master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
• Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Read to students, listen to students read, and participate in other forms of oral communications with students.
• Assist with supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trip. Assist additional help if needed by a student.
• Assist with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud and story-telling.
• Assist students in library or media center if appropriate for student's needs.
• Check notebooks, correct papers, and supervise testing and make-up work as assigned by the teacher.
• Help students with clothing if needed.
• Assist with lunch, snack, and clean-up routines.
• Assist with wash-up and toilet routines.
• Alert the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Serve as the chief source of information and help any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular classroom teacher.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Participate in training programs as assigned.
• Other duties may be assigned by the supervising teacher or principal.