Math Specialist (Part-Time)
National Louis University’s Undergraduate College is seeking a Math Specialist to join our team at the Chicago Loop campus (122 S Michigan) campus to provide tutoring in Mathematics.This is a part-time position of approximately 16-20 hours per week, with scheduled time occurring primarily during daytime classes (9am-4pm).
UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE CORE COMPETENCIES:
- Ownership and Quality of Work: Effectively manages own work, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality work within a fast paced environment.
- Organizational Commitment: Passionate, energetic, and driven to make a difference; Acts with honesty, integrity, and professionalism; Self-reflective, focused on development, and makes regular progress on development areas; Learns from mistakes and setbacks; Is adaptable and welcomes change.
- Upward Management: Engages at appropriate level with supervisor in defining desired outcomes, providing status updates, and obtaining input as to ongoing project direction and process; Keeps commitments and meets deadlines without the need for reminders; Proactively shares information in a timely manner.
- Collaboration: Works with colleagues, from across the organization, toward achieving common goals by sharing knowledge, learning, and building consensus. Proactively identifies relevant stakeholders and engages colleagues as needed to achieve goals.
- Communication: Uses effective written and oral communication with internal staff, teams, community served, and partners; demonstrates empathy and listening.
Essential Responsibilities:
In this role you will:
Demonstrate excellence in tutoring:
- Collaborate with faculty team to develop an effective learning experience for students, with a focus on utilizing inclusive practices and achieving equitable outcomes
- Support courses by providing engaging tutoring and/or supplemental instruction in a blended or remote, synchronous classroom environment
- Empower students to develop competency by leveraging their diverse strengths and backgrounds and by sharing a passion for the subject and skills being taught
- Utilize technology-based teaching platforms, including but not limited to adaptive courseware to aid students in the development of competencies
- Communicate effectively, with consideration of how social, cultural, and power dynamics may impact the communication
Demonstrate, maintain, and continuously strengthen content expertise:
- Maintain current and active content knowledge in the expertise area that is reflected in tutoring and instruction
- Possess appropriate expertise in subject-area tutoring as demonstrated by appropriate credentials and experience
- Maintain current knowledge of field
Promote student success with a proactive, high-expectations, high-support approach:
- Demonstrate and share a passion for postsecondary success for diverse learners, especially in terms of achieving equitable outcomes
- Demonstrate flexibility in delivery and work schedule to provide personalized student support (including meeting outside of class hours and via different modalities)
- Identify gaps between student needs and existing resources and services; generate creative resolutions that promote equity and inclusivity
Engage in data-driven instruction and student support planning:
- Track student course data weekly to ensure success and equitable outcomes
- Engage in regular data-driven planning meetings with faculty and coaches to report student progress and obstacles and to plan student support interventions
- Engage in regular content area team meetings with faculty and other specialists to review curriculum plans, determine implications of student data, and plan curriculum revisions
- Participate in continuous improvement of UGC tutoring efforts
- Actively document and share suggestions for program improvement with supervisor to support ongoing development of UGC services and curriculum
Commit to continuous improvement of self and colleagues:
- Attend and actively participate in training opportunities provided in online and in-person settings
- Participate in self-reflection and ongoing learning to develop a shared culture of anti-racism and anti-oppression
- Contribute to a learning culture by participating in various other workshops and meetings.
Skills Required
- Excellent tutoring and classroom support skills—especially around quantitative reasoning and statistics
- Ability to consistently connect course content to its real-world relevance, tying concepts and theories from the classroom to students’ current and future work experiences, and highlighting applicability of transfer skills
- Ability to differentiate tutoring and support based on student needs
- Willingness and ability to use data to inform tutoring and student support
- Effective collaboration skills, with ability to work in diverse teams to support student success and equitable outcomes
- Technology-proficient—able to quickly learn and utilize new tools and technologies
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Passionate about working with a diverse student body
- Agile, adaptable, and creative in pedagogy and student support
- Prepared, yet flexible
- Empathetic, yet structured
- Willing to pursue and support students in multiple modalities
- Expectation and desire to grow pedagogically
EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics or a related field required
- Prior teaching or tutoring experience strongly preferred
- Experience with digital tools for teaching and tutoring—especially with using a learning management system—preferred
- Experience teaching/tutoring in online, synchronous-remote, or blended/hybrid formats preferred
- Experience teaching or tutoring students of diverse backgrounds and abilities preferred
- Experience teaching or tutoring multilingual or multidialectal students preferred
- Spanish-English bilingual a plus