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Birmingham City Schools is looking for tutors to work with middle and high school students in reading and math.
Tutors are needed Monday through Friday for up to five hours a day.
Pay and hours
Tutors without a teaching certification will be paid $25 an hour. Tutors who hold a teaching certification will be paid $35 an hour.
Tutors can work up to five hours a day, up to 25 hours a week and up to 100 hours per month.
Who the district is looking for
Jacqueline Dent, interim executive director of curriculum and instruction, said the district would like retired teachers to apply.
“Of course, if they are retired teachers, we love that target group because these are people who have extensive backgrounds in the field of education already,” Dent said. “So, the retired teacher population would be wonderful to serve as tutors for our middle school and high school students.”
Dent said applicants without a teaching background will be trained.
“But as well, even if they’re not a tutor, we are going to do training for even if it’s a substitute who may be interested in receiving something that’s more of it gives them more of a full time job opportunity or more hours that they would like to work,” Dent said. “We’ll do all of the training. We provide all of the materials that are needed in order to conduct the tutoring sessions. So retired teachers will be wonderful if we can’t get those retired teachers. Even if there are people who are substitutes looking for more hours, that would be a great audience as well.”
What tutors will teach
Dent said the district has students in both middle school and high school performing below grade level in reading or math.
“And so we want the tutors to know that it’s not like they’ll be doing in math, they won’t be doing trigonometry or calculus or algebra,” Dent said.
Dent said the goal is for students to attain grade-level standards required in their regular courses or classes.
“So, with the tutors, we are looking for them to provide work in math,” Dent said. “It’s around fractions or division. In reading, it’s more the same skills, but maybe they’re using different level text to work with students that fits where that student is on his or her individual level.”
District initiative, not state-mandated
Dent said the tutoring effort is separate from the state’s Literacy Act and Numeracy Act, which apply to elementary school students.
“Those are elementary school students in terms of the Literacy Act and the Numeracy Act,” Dent said. “And one of the things, […], that we’ve found is that even though there’s legislation in the elementary setting, what we see is that in middle and high school, there’s still a need there. And so because of that, there may not be a legislation in place in middle and high school, but we still need those tutors to serve in the same capacity almost like the things that we’re doing in elementary. We need some of those things in place in high school. We just don’t have laws to kind of provide guidance around what that looks like. So this is our own initiative that we’re doing in Birmingham City Schools.”
How to apply
Dent said interested applicants can go to the Birmingham City Schools website under human resources and apply under HireTrue, or search Google for HireTrue and complete the substitute application, selecting Birmingham City Schools as the district.
Applicants can also call the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at (205) 231-4740.
