United States Jobs − Learning Specialist for Athletics at Brainstream LLC - Nov 2021

Brainstream Tutoring is seeking professionals, graduate students, and recent graduates who are interested in gaining valuable experience working with student-athletes (SA). We are looking for individuals with strong academic backgrounds that can help with the following duties:

Individually assess each SA in terms of academic strengths and weaknesses.

• Catered each session to each individual student athlete's needs.

Facilitate professional communication skills

• Explicitly model professional email writing/communication skills when needed.
• Strategize with SAs about how to make requests from professors.
• Encourage active participation in class discussions.

Increase reading skills with existing curricular assignments

• Explicitly teach comprehension skills when needed.
• Teach SAs strategies for how to approach new vocabulary words.
• Implement phonological awareness skills to increase decoding skills when needed.
• Identify which specific areas of reading an SA needs help with—decoding, comprehension, lack of background knowledge, working memory?

Increase academic writing skills through existing curricular assignments

• Demonstrate pre-writing strategies such as brainstorming, creating outlines, and other visual supports.
• Identify language that needs to be revised for tone and provide strategies for self-revision.
• Explicitly teach grammatical rules when needed.
• Revise assignments with SAs and identify areas for improvement as well as provide specific feedback on content, organization, and academic tone.

Facilitate academic study skills.

• Informally assess learning styles and figure out which study strategies prove most effective for each SA.

Other requirements:

• Ability to manage emotional crisis on occasion.
• Operate from a strengths-based perspective.
• Ability to establish and maintain excellent rapport.
• Create a learning environment where SAs feel comfortable.
• Scheduling flexibility.
• Provide strategies for summarizing and paraphrasing.
• Make specific campus-based referrals such as the communication lab or counseling center.
• Increase confidence in SAs academic skills.
• Create goals with SAs and follow up on them.

Administrative/Communication

• Submit tutoring reports for each session.
• Communicate with academic coordinators regarding progress/concerns
• Respond to emails from academic staff within 24 hours.

Why Brainstream Tutoring?

• Choose your own hours: The amount of hours you work is up to you. Work from home.
• Earn extra money for your goals: Achieve your short-term goals or long-term dreams by tutoring for Brainstream Tutoring.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract

Pay: From $20.00 per hour

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)