Position Type: Tutors/Other
Date Posted: 5/8/2024
Location: Summer School
What You'll be Doing: - Learn and carefully follow published procedures designed to standardize PASS curriculum delivery.
- Maintain confidentiality of student data protected by Federal Law. Safeguard access to the personal password to the PASS database.
- Closely monitor access to course Mentor Manuals and unit tests. Promptly report unauthorized access as well as testing discrepancies, to SEMY or PASS Course Sales.
- Order specified units of the PASS course identified by the student's academic counselor.
- Communicate with the student's family.
- Maintain student motivation and steady progress in the course through effective project management techniques (goal setting, monitoring timelines and progress, identifying and overcoming obstacles).
- Obtain support of other PASS Team Members.
- Meet with the student on a regular basis for individualized attention and personalized support.
- Review completed and in-progress work.
- Establish and maintain a caring, encouraging, supportive relationship.
- Convey high expectations.
- Open doors to resources and opportunities.
- Support the student in reviewing course unit materials in preparation for the unit test.
- Proctor the (typically online) unit test in a supervised setting following standard, published procedures.
- If a grade of D or F is earned on the unit test, compare the student's workbook answers with the correct answers in the course Mentor Manual.
- Provide enhanced support to prepare the student for a retake test (limit one per course unit).
- Keep the student's academic counselor informed as the student progresses through course materials.
- Verify that the building registrar received the course transcript from Sunnyside School District, Washington, and that credit is transferred as intended by the academic counselor. Grade is averaged over course units completed within the enrollment period. Earns .5 credit per semester course.
What We Offer: - Salary: $45.00 per hour or per diem, whichever is lower
Job Details: - Working days: 5 days per week
- Hours per day: 6
- Temporary for the 2023.2024 Summer School Program
What You'll Need: - Education: Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in job-related area.
- Experience: Experience as an elementary teacher or summer school teacher experience required.
- Licenses/Certificates/Registration: Must have a Washington State Teaching Certificate. Must meet WA State Certification Criteria.
- Minimum qualifications: Experience in providing PASS authorized courses, Authorized as a PASS contact person required, Experience in working with migrant 9-12 students, Bilingual in Spanish (preferred), Relates well with students, parents and peers. Must have excellent classroom control. Willingness and ability to work in a team environment. Willingness and ability to work at district and building level in developing curriculum. An enthusiastic, creative and resourceful motivator of students. Present a neat, clean, professional appearance at all times. Must be goal oriented (long range and short range).
About Grandview School District We are a rural and innovative school district offering a wide variety of academic programs and services. Grandview School District is 2A and has over 3,800 students of which 92% are Hispanic. Grandview is nestled in the lower Yakima Valley, a productive agricultural region noted for fruit, wine and hop production. The community also sees over 300 days of sunshine per year.
Working at GSD 200 Grandview School District in partnership with our scholars, families and community is investing in cultivating a culture of success by empowering and challenging each scholar to reach their full potential in all aspects of academics and life. Through a collaborative systematic approach, the Grandview School District is devoted to providing quality education that will empower and challenge all scholars to acquire and apply skills in a diverse, ever changing community that values respect, tolerance, diversity and relationships.
At Grandview Schools: We are cultivating a culture of success by:
- Partnering with scholars, families and community
- Empowering & challenging each scholar to reach their full potential
- Educating our scholars for an ever-changing world
Work Environment The usual and customary methods of performing the job's functions require the following physical demands: occasional lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling, some climbing and balancing, some stooping, kneeling, crouching, and/or crawling and some fine finger dexterity. Generally the job requires 30% sitting, 40% walking, and 30% standing. The job is performed under minimal temperature variations and in a generally hazard free environment.
Our mission celebrates diversity. We are committed to equal opportunity employment.