Reading Tutor

Qualifications

• This is an ideal part-time tutoring opportunity for college students pursuing a degree in education or childhood development, current/former teachers, and professional individuals who enjoy working with students or hope to pursue a career in education.
• Work experience in a professional setting (Teaching experience is preferred; equally important are a positive attitude, encouraging rapport with students, and skill & confidence in specific subjects and grade levels. )
• Experience with Google Suite, Zoom, and ability to balance multiple online platforms
• Availability Mondays-Thursdays from 3:30-6 pm
• Ability to meet with students at the office located in Petaluma, California (downtown)
• Clear articulation (be able to say your alphabet sounds/phonemes cleanly)
• Warm, open personality
• Successful rapport with students
• Reliability is a must for these students with learning differences.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Openness to feedback and mentorship
• Being a good team player

Full Role Description

Local Petaluma learning center is seeking experienced, enthusiastic and engaging candidates to tutor K-12 dyslexic students. We are looking for qualified tutors who share our passion for building students' confidence and independence.

The successful candidate(s) will be explicitly trained to teach young dyslexic students to read and spell using an Orton-Gillingham-based program. A portion of the training is offset with a stipend; ongoing training and mentoring are provided.

Availability requirements are Mondays-Thursdays from 3:30-6 pm.

This is an ideal part-time tutoring opportunity for college students pursuing a degree in education or childhood development, current/former teachers, and professional individuals who enjoy working with students or hope to pursue a career in education.

Our qualified tutors offer dyslexia support for children struggling with reading, writing, spelling, and comprehension, through a research- and evidence-based, multi-sensory, incremental, explicit curriculum. Students learn to read, write, and spell confidently, while also becoming aware of the extraordinary gifts and strengths that accompany dyslexia and the ways in which they can celebrate and cultivate these strengths.

Our approach is rooted in the widely recognized and respected Orton-Gillingham method for teaching students in need of explicit literacy instruction and/or remediation.

As contractors who are part of a wonderful community of colleagues, tutors have flexibility in scheduling. In addition, we host regular lunches that often include guest speakers, as well as tools to develop our teaching methods.

We train qualified candidates to teach this dyslexia reading intervention program. Throughout your training and your work with students, you will be mentored by Spark’s director of operations.

The sessions take place in person and on site in Petaluma, CA.

Job Types: Part-time, Contract

Pay: $30.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule

Work Location: In person