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Position TitleJob NumberJob DescriptionPay Scale
Home instruction Tutors174

2025-2026

 

Job Description: The Beacon City School District (BCSD) is committed to providing students and parents with pathways to opportunity that will lead to achievement and success. Alternate educational services are provided to any BCSD student who is within compulsory school age and is unable to attend school due to health, safety, or school removal. Tutors work with students that are placed in home instruction for various reasons including but not limited to medical needs. Tutors are assigned student cases on an as needed basis. Once a student has been assigned, the tutors work with assigned students until reassignment.

 

Duties:

  • Provide students with the regulatory instructional time (3 hrs. of instruction daily grades 7-12 for a maximum of 15 hrs. a week; 2 hrs. of instruction daily for grades 1-6 for a maximum of 10 hrs. a week);
  • Pick up and return all instructional assignments and materials in a timely fashion;
  • Provide academic grades to the BCSD;
  • Accept student assignments when contacted – Tutors teach all subjects the student is taking and grade all assignments;
  • Communicate professionally at all times with students and families;
  • Serve as facilitator of learning, maintaining contact with the student’s home school;
  • Submit a timesheet in a timely manner;
  • Make arrangements with the student’s home school to administer NYS assessments if the student is out for a medical reason and unable to return to their home school for testing;
  • Fill out appropriate requests for NYS Regents Exams if the student is out for medical reasons and is unable to return to school for exams (HS only);
  • Keep a log in grades to be submitted to teachers as agreed upon;
  • Submit student attendance to BCSD.

 

NYS Certification Required

Compensation per BTA Contract

Apply to:

Elementary School

Crystal Sessoms-Wiggins, Principal

(feeney.m@beaconk12.org)

Rombout Middle School

Brian Soltish, Principal

(garrett.d@beaconk12.org)

Beacon High School

Brian Soltish, Principal

(garrett.d@beaconk12.org)

Pupil Personnel Services

Dr. Heather Chadwell Dennis, Asst. Superintendent for PPS

(edmondson.j@beaconk12.org)
$40.00-$52.02/hour
Teaching Assistants017

This position, which falls in the unclassified service, assists a certified school teacher by providing instructional and support services directly to students. The incumbent, depending on assignment, may perform such duties as leading small groups in exercises, re-teaching or reinforcing concepts to individuals or groups, catching students up with the class after absences, leading computer labs, or assisting students with social adjustment to the school setting. This position differs from Teacher Aide by virtue of its direct contact with students in activities which are instructional, corrective or evaluative in nature. The work is performed under the general supervision of a certified school teacher or other professional staff.

Requirements:

  • Experience working with students with disabilities preferred;
  • Ability to work collaboratively with students, staff and administrators;
  • Knowledge/experience in secondary education preferred;
  • Knowledge/experience in supporting diverse learner needs preferred;
  • Familiar with NYS teaching standards and teaching practices.

 

NYS Teaching Assistant Certification Required

Compensation per BPA Contract

$26,635.38 (Step 1)
Aides/Monitors018

This work involves responsibility for the performance of routine classroom duties and non-professional tasks to assist teachers in the classroom.  Duties include performance of mechanical functions such as managing records and materials, attending to students’ physical needs, helping students with clothing, monitoring students, having students line up, distributing and collecting papers.  Specific tasks will vary depending on the grade level to which an incumbent is assigned.

Requirements:

  • High School graduate/GED;
  • NYS Fingerprinting clearance required;
  • Prior experience preferred.

 

Civil Service Eligibility Required

$16.70/hour
Per Diem Substitute Teachers010

The Beacon City School District seeks candidates who are NYS Certified and/or who are currently enrolled as an Education Major in an accredited College or University to provide instruction in all subject areas to the District’s Elementary, Middle and High Schools on a per diem needed basis.  Must have the knowledge and the ability to use various virtual platforms as needed in relation to the position.

 Daily compensation rates:

  • Non-certified substitutes: $90/day

  • NYS certified substitutes: $115/day

  • Retired Beacon Teachers’ Association substitutes: $125/day

 

Starting at $90.00 per day

The Beacon City School District believes in the dignity of the individual and recognizes the rights of all people to equal employment opportunities in the workplace. In this regard, the Beacon City School District (hereinafter “District”), is committed to a policy of protecting and safeguarding the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain and hold employment without subjugation to harassment or discrimination in the workplace. It is the District’s policy to provide an employment environment free from harassment and discrimination based on race, color, gender, religion, religious creed, sex, familial or marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information/predisposition or carrier status, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, self-identified or perceived sex, gender expression, gender identity and the status of being transgender, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions, and including medical conditions related to lactation) citizenship, prior arrest or conviction record, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state or local law.