YReads! Program Tutor

YMCA of Greater St. Petersburg•Saint Petersburg, FL

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The YReads! Program is a literacy and mentoring initiative for kindergarten through fifth-grade students at Pinellas County Schools throughout St. Petersburg, Florida. The program provides curriculum-based literacy instruction to help struggling readers develop phonetics, sight word recognition, spelling, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The tutor supports the program coordinator during program hours to help achieve program goals and follow established procedures.

Requirements

Be at least 16 years of age.
Have a desire or interest in learning about literacy intervention.
Have experience working with children in an educational environment.
Demonstrate compassion and empathy for struggling readers.
Pass a 10-panel drug screen.
Clear a Level 2 background check through DCF (Florida).

Nice To Haves

Tutoring experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Assist with student supervision, maintain order, and positively reinforce appropriate choices.
Assist students to and from the restroom.
Assist the coordinator with picking up and dropping off students around the school.
Ensure required procedures are followed when parents or guardians pick up students.
Maintain required paperwork, including testing records and volunteer and student sign-in and sign-out logs.
Teach basic reading skills using lessons developed by the YReads Coordinator and the program curricula.
Attend required abuse risk management training.
Follow mandated abuse reporting requirements.
Adhere to job-specific abuse risk management responsibilities.