Home Instructors 2024-2025

JOB GOAL:

To provide an approved education program and establish a learning environment that fosters learning and personal growth; to help students to develop skills, attitudes, and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation for continued education; and to maintain good relationships with parents and other staff members.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Works with members of the local education agency to identify the learning capabilities, as well as the physical and educational needs of those assigned to them.
• Delivers an instructional program, with the advice of the student’s regular teacher, for each assigned student receiving home instruction.
• Plans class activities and lesson presentations that are age appropriate for the student and meet the individual needs, interests and ability levels of the student.
• Sets specific objectives in lesson preparation and lesson plans and carries through presentation to effectively achieve these objectives.
• Establishes a rapport and cooperative relationship with students’ parents or guardians.
• Files written progress reports on each assigned student with the student’s parents or guardians, the student’s regular teachers, and the Director of School Counseling or Director of Special Services.
• Keeps, maintains, and files such reports and records as the Director of School Counseling or Director of Special Services may require, including attendance reports.
• Performs other duties as may be assigned by the Director of School Counseling or Director of Special Services.

Instruction and student contact

• Monitors student academic progress and personal growth toward stated objectives of instruction.
• Maintains records of students' educational progress in Genesis or other district grade book forms or electronic grade book as assigned.
• Identifies student needs and provides instruction appropriate to those needs.
• Establishes and maintains standards of student behavior needed to achieve a climate conducive to learning.
• Budgets time effectively.

Contact with parents and community

• Communicates with parents through conferences and other means to inform them about student progress.
• Informs parents when students are in danger of a failing grade for the semester or course.

Professional contacts and activities

• Cooperates with other faculty members in assessing and resolving learning problems.

Other

• Upholds and enforces school rules, administrative regulations, and board policies.
• Performs other duties within the scope of his/her employment and certification as may be assigned.