Elementary Tutor

**Completed at least 1 year of University Education in a Faculty of Education, Child and Youth Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Applied Linguistics, English, or related field**
- **Experience working with children and youth**
- **Located in Niagara region and can reliably start at 3:45-7:15 on weeknights**
- **Willing to work short shifts, multiple times a week**
- **Can make a long term commitment to the students in the centre and ideally has plans to stay in Niagara until April 2023**
- **Strong English reading, writing, editing skills and oral communication**
- **Ability to work in an fast paced environment**
- **Strong teamwork, collaboration and communication skills willing to learn new skills, takes feedback and applies it well**
- **Enthusiastic, vibrant personality, loves working with children**
- **Strives to improve upon their own teaching skills and strategies in a small group setting**

**Important Notes About Position**
- **This position is part time (between 6 to 12 hours per week). This position is Monday and Wednesday evenings OR Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 3:45-7:15pm and Saturdays from 9:45-1:15pm (Saturday shifts are not always available).**
- **All staff are expected to attend staff meetings, workshops, events and training sessions in person.**
- **Tutors are trained using the Interactive Coaching model. All tutors participate in a two week intensive training program and are expected to finish readings, online training modules and in person sessions.**
- **All tutors are required to provide a Vulnerable Sector Screen and may need to complete a competency assessment for English or Math before being hired.**

**Why work for Oxford Learning St. Catharines?**
- **Fun Team Environment -Every month we have staff meetings, workshops and events for our staff and students**
- **Professional Development
- Our teachers develop excellent teaching strategies for small group instruction and work with many different ages and levels. You will learn how to manage students with different learning styles and exceptionalities. You will improve your own knowledge of curriculum related to literacy development, basic writing skills and foundations of math.**
- **Convenient Hours
- All tutoring takes place after school so you will have the ability to work in public school board during the day without schedule conflict.**

**Why work for Oxford Learning St. Catharines?**
- **Fun Team Environment -Every month we have staff meetings, workshops and events for our staff and students**
- **Professional Development
- Our teachers develop excellent teaching strategies for small group instruction and work with many different ages and levels. You will learn how to manage students with different learning styles and exceptionalities. You will improve your own knowledge of curriculum related to literacy development, basic writing skills and foundations of math.**
- **Convenient Hours
- All tutoring takes place after school so you will have the ability to work in public school board during the day without schedule conflict.**

**About us**:
**Oxford Learning goes Beyond Tutoring Tutoring relies heavily on memorization. At Oxford Learning we take a different approach
- one that shifts the focus from WHAT your child is learning to HOW your child is learning.**

**We provide coaching for students ages 4 to 18 on literacy, writing, math, french and study skills We do not tutor Instead, we work in small groups (3:1 ratio) with our proprietary curriculum to develop students' academic skills, metacognition, organization and motivation.**

**As a learning coach, you will be implementing three individualized programs each hour, tailoring your instruction and approach to best serve your students cognitive strengths. You will be facilitating verbalization and reflection with each student, making the skills and strategies they learn matter to them, and helping them learn to transfer it to the classroom and home setting**

**You may be working with students with different learning needs, exceptionalities and backgrounds. Confidence, organization, flexibility and multitasking are key skills a learning coach requires to meet the needs of each student.**

**Job Types**: Part-time, Casual
Part-time hours: 6-12 per week

**Salary**: From $17.00 per hour

Schedule:

- Evening shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- St. Catharines, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Secondary School (preferred)

**Experience**:

- tutoring: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 2023-04-15
Expected start date: 2023-05-01