Math Tutor

**Virtual Math Tutor**

**Position Title**: Virtual Math Tutor for Grades 3-12

**Location**: Virtual/Remote

**About Evoke Learning**

Evoke is a learning and wellness centre that supports students striving to achieve their full academic potential and enhance their social-emotional well-being. Our tutors, academic strategists, and coaches are dedicated to creating a student-centred support model using holistic approaches informed by current cognitive science. We understand that everyone’s learning journey is unique, and we consider the student to be the expert in their own life. The Evoke network is a community that puts students first.

**Evoke works with many types of students, including**:

- Those who are struggling academically
- Individuals diagnosed with learning disabilities, ADHD, and/or giftedness
- Students who are underperforming and have much greater potential to achieve their goals
- Learners who require intensive instruction or additional time to process information without feeling stigmatized in the classroom
- Students who are capable of completing academic work but need to acquire strategies and time management skills to increase their success
- Students with extraordinary goals

Students who struggle in math have gaps in their learning for a variety of reasons: lack of self-efficacy, challenges with focus and staying on task, mindset, problems processing information at the same rate as their peers, deficits in psychological processes (such as working memory), and inadequate practice to master concepts and skills. To succeed in math in higher grades, it is critical that students master lower-level skills. Evoke’s high-dosage approach begins with tutoring the student in current grade-level content and strategically building-in key lower-grade concepts when they require them for proficiency in grade-level work. This ensures that students spend more time on grade-level work, don’t continue to fall behind, and can ultimately catch up.
- Be an Ontario Certified Teacher or paraprofessional.
- Have completed a pure math or related degree (i.e., physics, chemistry, computer science, engineering) at the postsecondary level.
- Be knowledgeable, familiar and comfortable with the Ontario and International Baccalaureate (IB) math curriculum and academic expectations.
- Have the ability to teach using a variety of explanations and representations to develop mathematical understanding.
- Possess a working knowledge of research-informed learning skills and strategies for elementary and secondary learners.
- Have and demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Possess a strong understanding of how to establish rapport and a relationship with a student.
- Know how to support diverse learners and have a strong understanding of learning disabilities, ADHD, and executive functions as they relate to learning.
- Have a strong understanding and comfort level with the use of technology to support math learning.
- Have strong problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate clearly and diplomatically with diverse populations, including parents, students, teachers, and other professionals.
- Have effective planning and organizational skills, including the ability to manage and keep track of time, maintain records to document how program time is spent, and collect objective data to measure mentoring efficacy against mutual goals.
- Be available and able to commit to a one-year contract.
- Be available 6-25 hours a week (typically from 3:30 pm onwards on weekdays) over a minimum of five days per week, including possible evenings and weekends.

**Contract duties and deliverables include**:

- Prepare for student lessons as required.
- Schedule weekly sessions directly with Evoke clients.
- Reinforce curriculum concepts for students struggling to understand current grade-level mathematical concepts.
- Help remediate identified academic gaps in math, promoting the development of mathematical reasoning.
- Create student homework practice and reference materials weekly, as required, to reinforce learning.
- Teach study strategies and help students prepare for tests and exams.
- Assist students with advocating for and accessing their accommodations and support.
- Proactively monitor student academic progress and performance using Evoke progress tools.
- Provide monthly progress reports for families, keeping Evoke apprised of student progress.
- Maintain accurate, thorough, up-to-date records of student contact, growth, progress, feedback, and performance.
- Collaborate with Evoke, as necessary, in support of student needs.

**Education and Experience**:

- A Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, science, education, or related field is required.
- A Master’s degree in mathematics, science, education or related field is an asset.
- A minimum of two years’ experience in a similar student service or advising role within a diverse elementary and secondary context.
- Expertise/experience and dem