Tutor (Full-time) English - Chicago, United States - City Colleges of Chicago

City Colleges of Chicago

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Chicago, United States

2 weeks ago

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TUTOR (Full-Time)

DALEY COLLEGE

City Colleges of Chicago's vision is to be recognized as the city's most accessible higher education engine of socioeconomic mobility and racial equity - empowering all Chicagoans to take part in building a stronger and more just city. The community college system's more than 3,500 faculty and staff serve more than 60,000 students annually at seven colleges and five satellite sites.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE

Reporting to the Director of Academic Support Services, or an administrator filling the role of the Director of Academic Support Services, a Full-Time
Tutor is responsible for providing students with tutoring and instructional support in an academic or occupational area of study to help improve their academic capabilities and progress academically, while promoting independent learning and self-reliance.

Full-time Tutors work with their Academic Support Center Director and Coordinators to develop and deliver discipline-specific training for the PT Tutors in the same academic area.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

Tutoring

Tutors students to help them gain a deeper comprehension of course materials and a better understanding of work assignments to improve their academic success.
Crafts effective tutoring plans to address tutee's weaknesses and strengths; motivates students and provides them with confidence to feel successful.
Provides students with skills for using educational technology and computers, relevant to their area of expertise or required for the course work they support within that expertise, to improve the student's academic capabilities.
Helps students develop positive attitudes and a high level of motivation towards learning and studying, build selfconfidence, and reduce anxiety or fear of failure in academic work.
Tutors students and provides them with strategies to develop effective study habits and skills to improve academic capabilities.
Prepares students for standardized testing, which can include CCC placement assessments, and provides strategies to overcome test anxiety.
Maintains records on tutoring activities within Navigate or other CCC student success platform.

Embedded Tutoring

Supports the class Instructor as an embedded tutor, proactively engaging students in learning exercises, monitoring students' level of comprehension, and assisting students in the class struggling with materials and course content.
Meets with the Instructor to discuss implementation and use of lesson plans, review feedback on learning activities, and assess students' progress and challenges in the classroom.
Conducts inclass presentations on various strategies to improve academic capabilities including study and notetaking skills, reading comprehension skills, and writing skills, as well as other skills relevant to the embedded class but within the tutor's area of expertise.

Department Work

May schedule and perform class visits to present and share information about current tutoring services. Offers class tours of the tutoring center(s) and assists with other marketing and outreach efforts for tutoring, alongside the coordinator(s), such as campus events.
May review policies and procedures proposed by the Director and coordinator(s) related to tutoring services and tutoring experiences to help insure a consistent and desirable student experience and alignment with the tutor's areas of expertise
Assists with the design and delivery of presentations and training resources for tutor professional development as relevant to areas of expertise, which may include research and sharing of knowledge on best practices in tutoring
Assists Coordinator(s) with the development of studentfocused study guides, studentfocused workshops, and/or other materials to support student academic success used in the course of services provided by ASC tutoring staff
Provides periodic evaluations of patterns in students' learning needs and suggests areas where tutoring professional development would be productive, based on areas of expertise and in consultation with Academic Support Center coordinators and managers.

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QUALIFICATIONS

Completion of tutoring certification preferred.
Experience in teaching, tutoring, or delivering academic support to students at the post

- secondary instructional level is strongly preferred.

Ability to provide tutoring in multiple disciplines is highly desired, including proficiency in languages other than English.
Experience working in a large, urban community college environment with a diverse cultural and ethnic student body is highly desirable.
Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and Zoom
High degree of proficiency in using Zoom and educational technologies including learning management systems
High degree of proficiency in creating learning and study resources for students at a range of skill levels
Knowledge of tutoring strategi