POSITION: Primary Language Tutor Korean
SALARY RANGE: Range 21 A ($23.81)
WORK YEAR: As Needed / 2-3 Hours per Day
DEADLINE: Until Filled

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education, Experience & Training:
 BA/BS Degree preferred
 A.A. degree or equivalent (any combination of training and experience equivalent to two years of college level work).
 Satisfactory work history
 Successful experience demonstrating tact, courtesy, positive attitude and maintaining cooperative relationships with those contacted during the course of work
 Fluent in Korean

EXPERIENCE:

The Palo Alto Unified School District English Learner Program is currently looking for adult tutors to support High School aged students in languages other than English. Potential candidates must care about and enjoy children. The Palo Alto Unified School District English Learner program seeks fluent speakers and writers of Korean.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Tutors will support beginning English Learners by helping them understand classroom teacher instruction and the core content. Tutors will be utilized to explain information and translate for the child, and the teacher in the classroom and at parent meetings. Tutors are often used to translate written English into the child’s primary language to support parents that prefer to read in languages other than English. Tutors are important resources in the English Learner Program because they provide a means of communication between beginning English speaking students, teachers and parents.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, turn, talk and hear, and taste and smell. The employee frequently is required to use hands to write, keyboard, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee must occasionally lift arms above shoulders to point, reach, touch, pull or lift.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Work environment includes working directly with young children. Employee will occasionally work at a computer.

PAUSD is an equal opportunity employer in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable federal, state and local laws.