Homework Cafe Teacher Job Listing at Fusion in San Mateo, CA (Job ID 5876498)

Description

Homework Café® Teacher & Mentor - Fusion Academy San Mateo
For mid-July 2024 start 
30 + hours/week; position planned to grow into salaried Director of Homework Cafe role this 24-25 school year (budget permitting)
In-person only, non-remote position  
Starting Rate: $25-30.00/hr

Our most preferred candidates will also be able to teach 1-to-1 classes in some subject areas.

Position Summary:

Our San Mateo campus is looking for a Homework Café® teacher! Our campus has school year-round with rolling admission, and we continue to grow our enrollment. Our two Homework Cafes have differing dynamics, energy, and student presence throughout the day, depending on semester and popular class times.

This role will start part-time and could evolve into a full-time Director position within 2-3 months (depending on campus enrollment). 

Our ideal Homework Café (HC) teacher will be enthusiastic, compassionate, and will possess strong leadership skills. The HC teacher will motivate homework completion and help facilitate executive functioning and social-emotional skills in our social spaces on campus for students grades 6-12. 

Candidate must have positive energy, the ability to function in a fast-paced environment, be calm and open for feedback, as be as a self-starter. They must respect the personhood of the student, creating connective relationships while maintaining authority, boundaries, and discipline. 

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Monitor and help students' progress in completion of homework.

• Communicate with teachers, staff, and families on student progress.

• Promote a positive social environment for students.

• Help create,plan,and execute monthly events (field trips and volunteer opportunities) and weekly student meetings

• Develop and maintain genuine, positive and consistent communication with parents.

• Contribute to and benefit from the campus community.

• Practice professionalism through ongoing professional development, reflection and continuous improvement.

• Significant student mentoring.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree.

• Experience with Special Education and Youth Mental Health background a plus.

• Must be able to multi-task, be detail-oriented, a great communicator and a self-starter.

• Our ideal candidate has exceptional classroom management skills, basic computer skills, and is an outgoing, well-organized individual who is eager to work in a highly dynamic, energetic school setting.

Competencies Desired:

• Ability to manage group dynamics and mediate conflict.

• Broad content knowledge.

• Understand learning differences and emotional difficulties.

• Ability to mentor as a positive role model.

• Understand and support each student's Formal Education Plan (FEP).

• Commitment to continuous improvement.

• Self-directed, proactive, intelligent, knowledge of curriculum and assessment, multi-tasker, problem solving skills, professional written and verbal communication skills, ability to connect with students with patience and compassion.

• Ability to manage stress, and self-regulate during chaos and crisis, consistently positive attitude, strong teamwork, passionate, genuine, organized, internally motivated, service orientation, ability to reserve judgment and respond with curiosity and compassion.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality or sex.