Academic Tutor & Mentor (Entry Level, Paid, Full-time)
Company: City Year
Location: West Des Moines
Posted on: August 7, 2022
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Job Description:
About City Year
City Year, an AmeriCorps program, helps students across schools
succeed. Diverse teams of City Year AmeriCorps members provide
support to students, classrooms and the whole school, helping to
ensure that students in systematically under-resourced schools
receive a high-quality education that prepares them with the skills
and mindset to thrive and contribute to their community.
What Youll Do
As a First Year City Year AmeriCorps member, your service will
focus on coaching and mentoring elementary, middle and/or high
school students. Youwill help these students earn academic success,
improve their attendance, learn social-emotional skills and develop
positive behaviors at school. You will plan and monitor individual
student progress and alsowork with teachers on whole class
instruction, breakout spaces and other in-class student
assistance.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Experience in all these tasks is not necessary. Weprovide 2-4 weeks
of training at the beginning of the year to support you. Plus, you
will work with partner teachers and school staff every step of the
way.
Support academic coaching and social emotional development for
students:
Work with identified students 1:1 and in small groups
Develop literacy and/or math skills varying learning activities by
student level, answering student questions and encouraging
assignment completion
Create and implement a behavior management system for students
Develop social-emotional skills throughout their day, using proven
strategies of learning, practicing, reflection and repetition
Collaborate with teachers and team members to collect, record,
analyze and monitor individual student progress, participating in
facilitated reviews of student data collected and entered intoCity
Years student data system
Create an engaging, safe and healthy classroom space in
collaboration with the teacher
Support Whole School initiatives to increase engagement with
students and families:
Support and/or conduct extended day and virtual programming for
students before, during and after school including, but not limited
to, academic enrichment and intervention, homework support,
recreation and student clubs, service learning, and leadership
development
Create, support and/or co-lead events or programs that recognize
and appreciate student growth and/or achievement in math, literacy,
attendance, and behavior
Engage students, parents/guardians, and/or community members in
education or social issues through member led themed events at
schools or on virtual platforms
City Year benefits
You will receive:
Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
CuralincEmployee Assistance Program
TalkspaceTherapy Program
Benefit Advocate Center
Bi-weekly living stipend
Workers compensation
Relocation support
Benefits specific to City Year location
Career and University partnerships and scholarships
City Year / AmeriCorps Uniform parts
AmeriCorps and other federally-issuedbenefits
You will be eligible for:
Segal AmeriCorps Education Award*
Child carebenefits paid by AmeriCorps
Keywords: City Year, West Des Moines , Academic Tutor & Mentor (Entry Level, Paid, Full-time), Other , West Des Moines, Iowa
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