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Job Descriptions

Reporting To: Director, Extra Tuition Centre

OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY

1. To provide remedial, extension and enrichment teaching to a range of children attending the Extra Tuition Centre.
   
   
2. To recognise that some children have special needs and must be taught accordingly. Some may have specific learning problems, a few behaviour, while other children are exceptionally able. A number of children may be taught at one time but each child must be treated as an individual.
   
   
3. To aim at helping the children to do better at school. The teaching, therefore, must be directed towards this goal.
   
   
4. To set, mark and evaluate work and ensure that it is appropriate to a child's needs. To work from prepared individual lesson plans and initiate new areas where necessary.
   
   
5. To take registers, receipt and account for tuition fees and related expenses, when applicable, and take responsibility for messages from parents relating to booking of lessons.
   
   
6. To take responsibility for general help and advice to 'Teacher Assistants', keeping an eye on them and making sure they also produce a high quality performance as regards teaching, marking and attitude to the pupils.
   
   
7. To make sure the room at the Leisure Centre is appropriately set up and ready at least 10 minutes before the first lesson begins.
   
   
8. To return the room to its original neat and tidy state after a teaching session.
   
   
9. To provide a relaxed but purposeful working atmosphere.
   
   
10. To report back to the Extra Tuition Centre any problems regarding discipline, attitude, lesson content and parents dissatisfactions, comments or appreciation.
    
    
11. To help with the marketing of the centre. This involves making sure that there are enough leaflets on display, talking to new parents and helping with centre promotion.

Role at the Centre

1) Ensure that your centre is ready to receive customers.
Setting up the room is not only the responsibility of the teacher in charge. There are many tasks to be completed before the children come in for their lesson.
• Tables and chairs should be arranged in an appropriate way
• Books should be laid out so the different materials are easy to find.
• Keep an eye on the supply of stationary you have.
• Someone could take the initiative and select a piece of work for every child, then put the lesson sheet and book out on the table where you want them to work.
• Someone should be responsible for taking the register.
• Someone could be responsible for greeting the children and telling them where they are sitting.
All of the above will help the start of the lessons run smoothly.

2) Public Relations.
The teacher in charge is the host/hostess at your centre and receiving parents and students is a very important function. Parents are our paying customers and need to feel recognised and valued. Informal comments you make when they arrive or small comments on the child’s progress are very important. Often parents need to talk to you about problems the child is experiencing or can throw light on reasons for a child’s performance or lack of it. We firmly believe that successful progress depends on the active cooperation and participation of Parent, child, teacher, the ETC and the school. Often the parent is the only go-between between ETC and the school. They are also important influences on enrolment of family and friends. Time spent with them establishing a trust is time very well spent. Try to speak to every parent either at the beginning of a lesson or at the end.
Obviously much of the public relations mentioned above applies to the teacher in charge. However, all assistants can play a role in welcoming students and pupils:

• Learn the children’s names so you can greet them when they come in.
• Tell them your name if they are new – you should all have name badges – let us know at HQ if you have lost yours or have run out.
• Ask if they have had a good week at school OR if they have had any problems with their schoolwork they want to go over.
• Find out if they have a particular hobby – asking them briefly about it will sometimes put nervous or distracted children more at ease.

3) The Energy
The energy, sense of fun-in-learning, the sense of pride in achievement which we aim for in each centre will be a reflection of the success of your centre.

• We place high priority on the importance of ensuring that every child (and parent) leaves an ETC session feeling a sense of achievement.
• 74% of our new students come from referrals. If the children have worked hard and feel good about what they have achieved then they will tell their parents, if they are not happy then the parents will vote with their feet.

• To help achieve these good feelings:

• Make sure each piece of work is explained thoroughly before the student begins.


• Ensure that every piece of work is dated, has a heading and that the heading is underlined.


• Keep an eye on the quite students – they often get left to fend for themselves and will often not ask if they do not understand. Make sure that you check after a few minutes that they are on the right track. Mark the work part way through the exercise to ensure that the student does not do a whole page of work incorrectly.


• Check over work that has been marked by someone else especially English and spellings – nothing upsets parents more then when a child comes home and spellings are marked incorrectly. If you can’t spell get someone to help mark the work.


• Put a pleasant comment at the end of every piece of work. A simple ‘well done’ or ‘good effort’ can make all the difference to a student – it shows that you recognise that they have tried hard.

4) Customer Care
The whole of the rest of what can be called “Customer Care” is both the teacher in charge and the assistants’ responsibility. It includes getting to know the students in your care as individuals and treating them as such. Taking an intelligent interest in work assigned by ACTION and influencing this wherever necessary is also part of this role. It involves using your personality to motivate each student and develop a healthy working relationship with him/her.

5) New students.
Please take special care of new students. Young ones in particular can easily become overwhelmed and feel threatened by a system they do not understand.

• If it is not possible for the teacher to welcome a new student and explain the system to him/her, then it is important that a senior assistant who has a kind and sympathetic manner steps in. It is vital that the student’s first impression is a positive one.
• During the lesson, and particularly at the end it is important that someone makes sure that the student leaves feeling positive about the experience.
• We very, very occasionally have cases of new students who dissolved in tears because they did not know how to ask for help or what to do. A student who goes home in tears after the first lesson is unlikely to come back!

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