Greenwood School District 50
Position Description

POSITION TITLE: HOSTS Teacher

Department:

Reports to: Principal

Prepared by: Deborah K. Powell Date: June 29, 1999

Approved by: Date:

SUMMARY: Develops and maintains a structured mentoring program with business and community volunteers for one-to-one assistance with at-risk students.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Other duties may be assigned.

1. Plans and organizes the HOSTS center through instructional resource management, room set up, and schedules.

2. Assists the teachers and principal in the selection of at-risk students who are in need of a structured mentoring program.

3. Recruits mentors from businesses, agencies, and the community at large.

4. Provides orientation and training about the HOSTS program, materials used, and duties to volunteers serving as mentors.

5. Establishes procedures for recognizing and retaining volunteer mentors.

6. Arranges mentor schedules to accommodate volunteers and to establish continuing relationships with students.

7. Maintains information about mentors’ availability and attendance.

8. Assesses the needs and accomplishments of students on a regular basis.

9. Develops mentor-friendly personalized student lesson plans that meet the individual needs, interests, and abilities of students to insure successful mentoring experiences.

10. Maintains and provides information about student progress to mentors and classroom teachers.

11. Guides the mentoring process toward achievement of both school and district curriculum goals.

12. Collects and analyzes data for the evaluation of program effectiveness and recommends such changes and improvements as are needed.

13. Disseminates and interprets the program evaluation results to administrators, instructional specialists, classroom teachers, and district office staff, as appropriate.

14. Plans and works cooperatively with other HOSTS coordinators and their principals to ensure a well-coordinated curricula by participating in district meetings, attending relevant workshops and conferences and sharing information with other teachers and/or administrators.

15. Maintains professional relationships with students, faculty, and mentors; follows ethics of the teaching profession; and promotes the welfare of students at all times.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Supervises students and mentors and assumes other supervisory duties as assigned by building principal.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

1. South Carolina Teacher’s Certification.

2. Bachelor’s Degree in the area of major study.

3. Ability to effectively deal with students, parents, staff, business community, and community at large.

4. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies or members of the business community.

PRESENTATION SKILLS:

Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of administrators, top management, public groups/community, businesses, agencies, and Board of Education. employees, clients, customers, and/or the general public.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plain and solid geometry and trigonometry.

REASONING ABILITY:

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Ability to develop effective working relationships with staff, students, parents, business community, and community at large both in person and on the phone.

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