The Olive Grove Academy Tutor Job Listing

Thank you for your interest in becoming a tutor at our academy! Below you will find a description of the role as well as a link to the application. Feel free to send any questions to info@theolivegroveacademy.org.

Job description:

Tutors at The Olive Grove Academy (hereby referred to at TOGA) fill the valuable role of mentoring the students, affecting atmosphere and guiding learning.  They are themselves eager lifelong learners and inspire their students with that lifestyle.

Please understand that complete, practical and comprehensive training will be given and expected for every tutor at TOGA.  Tutors will be thoroughly trained in these roles.  We are looking for individuals  that are inspired by the teaching of Charlotte Mason and willing to engage in learning and implementing those principles.

Tutors roles-

  •  Look over lesson plans from the Alveary curriculum, prepare as needed to instruct students (explain a few vocabulary words, be prepared for student narrations, know potential sensitive topics).   

  • Read ahead far enough to know what supplies are coming up and let the head of school know.   

  • Be orderly by having supplies, copies and books ready.  

  • Establish a good system to move from subject to subject smoothly (give students roles and jobs to aid in this process).  

  • Keep lessons short and give each lesson it’s proper time (let students continue wondering and carry the conversation on after class rather than talk on and on in any one topic).

  • Understand the value and purpose of narration and require narration at every lesson.

  • Understand your role as mentor. Tutors are not experts completely skilled in every subject, they are guides connecting students with great books, solid ideas and timeless truths.  Their roles are to introduce students to life-giving ideas and gain relationships with those ideas that will take deep root in their lives and lead them to the lifestyle of a life-long learner. 

  • Tutors do not “teach to the test”. They lead students to build relationships with knowledge and truth. 

  • Tutors believe in God’s created order and trust that God’s word is foundational and the source of all truth. 

  • Tutors apply themselves in continuing to learn Charlotte Mason principles and  implement them into the classroom.

  • Update lesson plans by Saturday for the following week to be prepared for a substitute if needed.

  • Read the Alveary’s Member Tutorial and familiarize yourself with the website.

  • Look over Alveary exams, decide with the head of school which exams will be given and prepare those questions for exam week.  

Qualities we value and encourage in the atmosphere of our academy-

  • Focus

  • Diligence

  • Paying full attention

  • Engaging

  • Compassion/Empathy

  • Problem Solving

  • Industriousness

  • Independence

  • Healthy Habits

General Expectations of The Olive Grove Academy Tutors-

Be a Leader, Learning Based, Pursue Charlotte Mason philosophy and pedagogy: 

  • Pursue the habits of respect, excellence and joy  

  • Read the original writings of Charlotte Mason in order to implement in the classroom

  • Be a student along with your fellow coworkers of CM philosophy and pedagogy by participating in Academy training

  • Continue to exemplify a lifestyle of lifelong learning, close observation, finding truth, and appreciating the beauty of God’s created order

  • Conduct  the classroom in a clean, orderly way with authority lead by kindness and calm.  Focus on aiding students in mastery.

  • No tutor shall discriminate against a student on the grounds of sex, race, age, religion, disability, health status, custom, ethnic origin, background, socio-economic status or conflict with a parent or guardian. 

  • Tutors shall serve as role models showing the love of Christ in speech, mannerism, discipline, dress, and general performance in their roles at The Olive Grove Academy as well as the wise choices they make outside of the Academy.

If this sounds like a position you are interested in, we’d love for you to fill out our tutor application.