1. Go to www.pisd.edu
2. Click on the Employment tab.
3. Click on the Application tab located on the left side of the screen.
4. Register as a New Applicant
5. Fill out all mandatory fields in “My Profile.”
6. Click on “Job”
7. Under “Substitute Jobs,” select “Substitute Teacher Assistant.
8. Check “Substitute Classroom Assistant.”
9. Be sure to submit the application within 72 hours of beginning the application process. If you wait longer than 72 hours, you will have to start the application over.
10. After submitting your application, contact Kristin Anderson (AVID Coordinator) at Kristin.Anderson@pisd.edu to set up a time for an interview. Please bring a copy of your resume to the interview.
11. If you are selected as a tutor, you will need to request a copy of your transcript. The transcript can be sent to or dropped by the address below.
    Plano ISD Administration
    
    Human Resources
    Attn: Marisol Sonoda
    2700 W. 15th Street
    Plano, TX 75075
    
    If you just graduated from high school and will be entering college, you can bring your high school transcript. If you are in college or a college graduate, you will need to send the most up-to-date transcript.
12. All district employees are now required to be fingerprinted. HR will send you an email with specific fingerprinting instructions. Included in the instructions is a form that must be completed and returned to HR after you have been fingerprinted. The form requires a TCN #. You will receive this number from the L1 location where you are fingerprinted. The process will cost $50. Fingerprinting process must be completed before you can attend orientation.
13. HR will send for State Criminal History Background checks.
14. Attend new tutor orientation: You will need to bring 2 forms of ID (driver’s license and social security card, passport, or birth certificate). At the orientation you will complete hiring paperwork and receive your badge.
15. Attend tutor training: You will be paid for your training hours.
16. Begin tutoring.
Interviews will take place at Kristin Anderson’s office located in the Plano ISD administration building at 2700 W. 15th Street. It is on 15th Street in between Independence and Custer. Check in with the receptionist downstairs and she will direct you to Kristin’s office.

1. Tutors will take an active part in developing the academic and personal strength of AVID students who have made a commitment to become actively involved in their own education.
2. Tutors become masters of reassurance and the AVID strategies (WICR: writing, inquiry, collaboration, and reading).
3. Tutors become masters of the stages of tutorial and inquiry learning process.
• Take Cornell Notes and formulate higher levels of questions.
• Complete tutorial request form and include 2 higher level questions from Cornell notes, homework, or tests.
• Turn in tutorial request forms and prepare for tutorial by gathering resources.
• Divide into tutorial groups.
• Begin tutorial by having a student presenter write a high level question of the board.
• Use inquiry to guide the student presenter through the process.
• Check students’ understanding of the problem by asking clarifying questions.
• Repeat inquiry process for all group members.
• Reflect in writing about the inquiry process used.
• Turn in tutorial form to receive feedback and grade.
• Debrief the tutorial session.
4. Tutors assist AVID students in developing personal pride.
5. Tutors will:
   • Lead collaborative tutorial groups.
   • Assist students in the writing process.
   • Discuss common areas of concern.
   • Help students take and use Cornell notes from lectures and textbooks.
   • Help students learn through asking questions (use of inquiry), not providing answers.
   • Evaluate student
6. Tutors are expected to be active learners, not experts. Because you have been selected as a tutor for this special class, it is expected and understood that you will:
• Be positive and professional at all times.
• Be on time and prepared at all times.
• Act as a role model in behavior and wear appropriate attire at all times.
• Inform teacher in advance of absences on a tutorial day.
• Become familiar with the specific routines and expectations of each AVID teacher’s classrooms.
• Underscore the importance of learning and achieving academic success.
• Take an active part in developing the academic strength and personal pride of students.
• Demonstrate the commitments tutors make to students.
• Communicate effectively with students to amplify motivation and subject area mastery.

Tutoring Schedules 2010-2011

Available tutoring times on Mondays and Wednesdays