We home school our daughter. She is 5 years old and she is attending Grade 2 under correspondence with Laurel Springs School. Her English reading and speaking ability is beyond grade 2, probably about grade 4. Her math tests at 85% grade 2 level. She is a happy child, very friendly and compassionate. 
 
We are looking for a teacher to help us with her home schooling. We would prefer to engage someone of post graduate level. A graduate student or someone who is already teaching. Someone who enjoys working with younger children. Time is reasonably flexible but preferably between 9 – 5. The number of hours per day and number of days per week is also flexible but no less than 2 days/3 hours per week. We would require the  candidate to commit at lease 1 semester. 
We would like a tutor particularly for the science portion of Julia's schoolwork since neither of us have any science background. Therefor a candidate with a science major would be looked upon more favourably. If the science tutoring works out well, and the person is happy with more hours we could add Math and/or Health.
 
There is a very clear curriculum that is outlined, broken down by week, with one assignment due each week. The assignment is usually an experiment or written response. I take a mastery based approach - we do the experiment or talk about the topic and then Julia answers the questions. If she doesn't give the correct answers then we go through it again until she understands. 
The goal would be to work with Julia to complete the assignment each week. If she expresses interest in delving deeper into something, that would be great if further exploration could take place after the assignment is done.
 
We live right in the campus next to the Law Faculty. 
 
We will pay $25.00 per hour to start with for the successful candidate. 
 
Thank you,
 
Cecilia (pcj@shaw.ca)

Posted: 03|6|14 at 9:30 am. Filed under: Employment.
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