As a NC Education Corps literacy tutor, you will work in-person in an assigned placement school at least 3 days a week, with 1-3 students for 30 minutes at a time. You will support K-3 students with their foundational literacy skills, focusing primarily on phonological awareness and phonics instruction. 

Phonological awareness instruction includes:

• Awareness of words within a sentence
• Counting syllables in words
• Recognizing and producing rhyming words 
• Alliteration activities 
• Awareness of individual sounds within words
• Segmenting, blending & manipulating sounds through isolating, deleting, and substituting 

Phonics instruction deals with printed language and includes but is not limited to:

• Letter / Sound correspondence (identify and produce letters and their sounds)
• Deals with the letters and the various sounds represented by those letters. It is the strategy for sounding-out words. The skill of decoding and blending words is necessary for fluent reading.

You will become an employee of the school district and will be paid hourly (pay rates vary by district). You do not have to have a background in education, because you will be supported by a NCEC learning coach who will provide training, professional development, and support throughout the school year.

All corps members (CMs) will participate in a maximum of 60 hours of professional learning and support during the 2022-2023 school year. Each CM will have an individualized professional learning pathway designed based on their particular needs. Pathways include asynchronous online training, coaching, office hours and school-based observations.  

NCEC will host a single day, in-person Learning Summit in November and a virtual Learning Summit in the spring. 

All professional learning and support is paid by your PSU and the recording and sharing of those hours is managed by NCEC.

Exact dates and times for any learning will be shared once you have been hired and your learning pathway is designed.

Preferred Time Commintment: 10-15 or 15-25 hours per week

Preferred Tutoring Hours: 8am-1pm (could vary based on intervention times and will be confirm in July)

Pay Rate: $15 per hour for non-classified and $30 per hour for licensed

Qualifications Required:

• Associates Degree or 48 hours of college credit
• Desire to work with children and serve your community by extending the reach of teachers in your local school district