Primary School Tutor

1 month ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom LS Tuition Full time

**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 up-to-date 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 1-12 teaching hours per week, rate of pay will be £42.25 p/h.
- Where the tutor has 13-20 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 1.6.23.

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:

- a 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 in-person 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


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