Primary School Tutor - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - LS Tuition

Description

As a tutor with LS Tuition, you will be expected to:

• Provide a first-class service to students and parents alike;
• Schedule and plan individual tutoring sessions for your students;
• Provide tuition that is appropriate for the individual's emotional needs and academic level;
• Prepare students for exams or tests required for acceptance to education or training opportunities;
• Assess any barriers to students' learning progress and develop equitable plans to move beyond said barriers;
• Maintain uptodate knowledge of the curriculum for excellence content and national benchmarks;
• Ensure you are following all LS Tuition policies and procedures;
• Use relevant tutoring methods and materials in line with LS Tuition working practices;
• Develop learning and teaching materials to add to the LS Tuition resource bank;
• Deliver online tuition where appropriate;
• Keep student records for progress meetings, individual weekly lesson/homework plans, produce progress reports where appropriate, and make sure all individual student information is safely filed away;
• Deliver a professional service;
• Keep a record of working hours to produce to your line manager at the end of each week for remuneration purposes;
• Promote LS Tuition to gain students and recommendations;
• Report to Lydia Scaltsas any and all problems;

Rate of Pay

• Where the tutor has 112 teaching hours per week, rate of pay will be £42.25 p/h.
• Where the tutor has 1320 teaching hours per week, rate of pay will be £45.50 p/h.

Working Hours
This post is a part time, long-term position, commencing

The engagement of the tutor shall be on a part-time basis only and during the engagement the teaching hours shall be on the following basis:

• minimum of 15 teaching hours where there are 15 hours available;

- a maximum of 20 teaching hours.

• Tutor MUST be available to work a minimum of 5 teaching hours on a Saturday or Sunday as part of their contract.
• All tuition sessions must take place either online, in the LS Tuition Virtual Classroom, or inperson in the LS Tuition Learning Space.

Qualifications
Must hold an undergraduate degree in Primary Education (2:1 and above preferred) and/or other recognised teaching qualification within Scotland.


Skills

You will need to have:

• A sound understanding of the Curriculum for Excellence, Curricular Benchmarks for Early/First/Second/Beginning Third Level, and understanding of progression frameworks;
• Knowledge of appropriate revision and exam techniques;
• Excellent planning and organisational skills to prepare for each individual tutoring session, track academic progress, supply, mark and provide feedback for accompanying homework, keep track of a weekly tuition schedule, track working hours and engage in progress discussions;
• Excellent interpersonal skills for building and maintaining rapport with students and their families;
• A high level of professionalism when working with students and their families;
• Advanced oral communication skills to explain progression and other relevant information effectively;
• Advanced writing skills to provide feedback to students and parents/carers;
• IT skills when tutoring online in the LS Tuition Virtual Classroom.

Social media skills to promote yourself as part of LS Tuition are desirable, but not essential.


Work Experience

Application Procedure
Details of education history, employment history and reasons for leaving, including voluntary and other activities should be included.


Shortlisted applicants will be invited for an interview/teaching observation shortly thereafter, with the indicative dates for this being Sunday 14th and Sunday 21st May 2023.

Invitation to Interview/Observation

Applicants invited to interview will be required to complete two 30-minute teaching observations, one face-to-face and one online, to demonstrate their ability to engage students and create a safe, exciting and focused working environment.

Duties and Responsibilities

1.
To LS Tuition Students

• To encourage pupils to take an active role in their lessons, improve their own academic performance and participate fully in the ethos of LS Tuition;
• To prepare and deliver lessons in line with the Curriculum for Excellence and in line with LS Tuition teaching frameworks;
• To stimulate and encourage pupils to a high standard of interest and work, ensuring that the needs of each individual are addressed and met;
• To maintain weekly lesson plans, continuing assessment evidence, and to at all times be able to justify teaching decisions and show student progress; including setting homework, in sufficient detail;
• To mark and assess pupils' work in line with national, and LS Tuition requirements, and to record assessments;
• To ensure knowledge and observation of health, safety and behavior codes; to encourage good safe conduct;
• To investigate and discuss individual problems with Lydia Scaltsas.

2. **To LS Tu