[Remote] Elementary School Reading Tutor
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company, is seeking Elementary School Reading Tutors to join their Live Learning Platform. Tutors will have the flexibility to set their own schedules and make a significant impact on students' academic success through personalized online instruction.
Responsibilities
• Provide personalized instruction to individual students
• Accept on-demand tutoring requests whenever you're available
Skills
• Advanced Subject Mastery: Deep knowledge of phonemic awareness, phonics application, fluency development, vocabulary building, reading comprehension strategies, text structure identification, and literary element recognition for developing readers
• Ability to explain decoding strategies, sight word acquisition, and comprehension monitoring while preparing elementary students for reading proficiency benchmarks and grade-level literacy standards
• Conceptual Teaching & Problem-Solving: Skilled at teaching guided reading, fluency practice, and comprehension strategy application
• Guides students through sounding out unfamiliar words, identifying main ideas and supporting details, making predictions and inferences, retelling stories, and connecting texts to personal experiences
• Emphasizes building reading confidence and love of books while connecting reading skills to writing, science, and social studies content
• Curriculum Awareness & Adaptive Instruction: Familiar with elementary reading standards and science of reading principles, and common challenges such as decoding multisyllabic words, comprehending informational text, and maintaining reading stamina
• Adapts instruction using leveled readers, graphic organizers, and interactive read-alouds to support developing readers from kindergarten through fifth grade at various reading levels including struggling and advanced readers
• Effective Teaching Methods: Ability to identify concepts students commonly struggle with, explain material using multiple approaches, and adapt instruction to meet individual learning needs and styles
• Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style
• Ability to adapt to different learning styles and student needs
Benefits
• Get paid up to twice per week, ensuring fast and reliable compensation for the tutoring sessions you conduct and invoice.
• Set your own hours and tutor as much as you'd like.
• Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform.
• No commuting required.
• Our AI-powered Tutor Copilot enhances your sessions with real-time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features, helping you save prep time and focus on impactful teaching.
• We handle the logistics—you just invoice for your tutoring sessions, and we take care of payments.
Company Overview
• Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) company, is a leading platform for live online learning, with a mission to transform the way people learn through technology. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in St Louis, Missouri, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.varsitytutors.com.
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Responsibilities
• Provide personalized instruction to individual students
• Accept on-demand tutoring requests whenever you're available
Skills
• Advanced Subject Mastery: Deep knowledge of phonemic awareness, phonics application, fluency development, vocabulary building, reading comprehension strategies, text structure identification, and literary element recognition for developing readers
• Ability to explain decoding strategies, sight word acquisition, and comprehension monitoring while preparing elementary students for reading proficiency benchmarks and grade-level literacy standards
• Conceptual Teaching & Problem-Solving: Skilled at teaching guided reading, fluency practice, and comprehension strategy application
• Guides students through sounding out unfamiliar words, identifying main ideas and supporting details, making predictions and inferences, retelling stories, and connecting texts to personal experiences
• Emphasizes building reading confidence and love of books while connecting reading skills to writing, science, and social studies content
• Curriculum Awareness & Adaptive Instruction: Familiar with elementary reading standards and science of reading principles, and common challenges such as decoding multisyllabic words, comprehending informational text, and maintaining reading stamina
• Adapts instruction using leveled readers, graphic organizers, and interactive read-alouds to support developing readers from kindergarten through fifth grade at various reading levels including struggling and advanced readers
• Effective Teaching Methods: Ability to identify concepts students commonly struggle with, explain material using multiple approaches, and adapt instruction to meet individual learning needs and styles
• Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style
• Ability to adapt to different learning styles and student needs
Benefits
• Get paid up to twice per week, ensuring fast and reliable compensation for the tutoring sessions you conduct and invoice.
• Set your own hours and tutor as much as you'd like.
• Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform.
• No commuting required.
• Our AI-powered Tutor Copilot enhances your sessions with real-time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features, helping you save prep time and focus on impactful teaching.
• We handle the logistics—you just invoice for your tutoring sessions, and we take care of payments.
Company Overview
• Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) company, is a leading platform for live online learning, with a mission to transform the way people learn through technology. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in St Louis, Missouri, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.varsitytutors.com.
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