Location: Middletown,CT, USA
Job Description:
MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Values and Belief Statements:
Empowerment: Middletown Public Schools empowers its students with the knowledge
and skills to create lives brimming with purpose, passion and fulfillment.
Community: Middletown Public Schools harnesses the power of community by
fostering an environment of mutual understanding and appreciation.
Growth: Middletown Public Schools encourages a culture of growth and exploration,
inspiring lifelong learners.
Authenticity: Middletown Public Schools embraces each person's authenticity and
cultivates an inclusive culture that brings about a sense of belonging.
Expulsion Tutor
Job Description
Under general supervision, provide classroom instruction to students enrolled in an alternative education setting. Reinforce instruction to individual students and small groups in a variety of academic subjects and other learning activities.
Reports to: Director of Pupil Services and Special Education
Position: This position is 4 hours per day (AM); Monday -Friday; 8:30-12:30; during the school year
Duties and Responsibilities
* Provides supervision of students in the district's alternative educational setting.
* Provides small group instruction to students enrolled in an alternative school setting.
* Assists in the development and implementation of an individual education service plan for students.
* Support students on the Edgenuity instructional activities.
* Works collaboratively with school and agency counselors, teachers, administrators, parents and related service providers in the overall educational plan for students to include lessons that address the student's needs.
* Maintains student records and files in a confidential manner.
* Keeps accurate documentation regarding student progress, needs, strengths, etc. (i.e. grades, observations, anecdotal records, other related data).
* Keeps daily student attendance.
* Communicates with parents, teachers, administrators, and related service providers on an as needed basis.
* Submits all reports, forms, records and data as requested by the Director of Special Education and/or Superintendent.
* Maintains proper certification by attending college, workshop and professional development courses.
* Demonstrates a high degree of professionalism and ethics, working cooperatively with the Board, the Superintendent, administrators, certificated and non-certificated personnel, parents, and students.
* Performs other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
* Performs other related work as required including the improvements to program as related to suspension alternatives.
Minimum Training and Experience
Bachelor's degree, with teaching license preferred. Five years of successful education experience is preferred.
Essential Job Functions
* Must be able to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, calculators, pencils, scissors, equipment for children, etc.
* Must be able to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
* Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics of data, people or things.
* Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments and/or directions from superiors.
* Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc.
* Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials, etc. using prescribed format.
* Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
* Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions.
* Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including medical, legal and counseling terminology.
* Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
* Requires the ability to talk and hear.