Shining Stars Homeschooling - Information for Teacher Applicants

Unlike most schools, while we always have some students start with us at the beginning of the school year, many new clients come to us during the school year when they choose to pull their children out of school for one reason or another. Therefore, we are constantly hiring new teachers. Our positions vary from a few hours per week of homeschool help to 20 or more hours per week for full-time homeschool students. Most homeschool instruction takes place during the school day. All of our positions are independent contractor positions. Teachers are welcome to work with more than one client, and current teachers are offered additional clients before new teachers are hired. As independent contractors, our teachers are welcome to accept or decline any positions offered to them.

Advantages of Homeschooling over After School Tutoring

1) Most homeschool clients schedule 10 - 20 hours per week, 2 - 5 hours for each session. This means more time spent teaching and less time driving between sessions. It also means more income with less clients and less drive time.

2) Most homeschool instruction takes place during school hours, so you won't waste time stuck in rush hour traffic. This is also ideal for stay-at-home moms with children in school as the work can be scheduled while the children are away from home. If you already have some after school tutoring students, you can keep them while earning extra income teaching homeschoolers during the school day.

3) The curricula is provided for you with detailed lesson plans, greatly decreasing your preparation time.

Requirements:

We require all homeschool teachers to have passed their certification exams in one of the 50 states and/or have formal teaching experience in a private school or with other homeschoolers. If you have an expired certification or have completed an alternative certification program, including passing your certification exams, you do qualify to teach for us. Your certification and experience do not have to be in the state in which you are applying to teach, and we do not require you to hold a certificate in all subjects you teach for us. We do however require that you have mastery and confidence in teaching each subject you teach.

Application/Hiring Process

Please send your resume to ShiningStarsHR@gmail.com, and we will contact you when we have an opening that may be a good match for you. Interviews take place via Zoom, and references and background checks are required before hiring.

Ongoing Support

The majority of our teachers come from public school backgrounds, and we understand the prospect of homeschooling can be a bit intimidating. There is no need to worry though. We work with parents and have them order curricula for you to follow before you begin. Homeschool curricula is written for parents to easily utilize, with clearly written lesson plans you are sure to find much simpler than what you used in the classroom. In addition, we provide ongoing support for our teachers. Feel free to call the director at any time if you have questions or concerns.

Flexibility

One of the greatest advantages of homeschooling is flexibility. You should never feel that you need to follow a curriculum exactly as written. Feel free to modify assignments to peak a student's interest, create your own assignments, skip topics you know the student already has mastered, or review prerequisite concepts you find the student is lacking.

Payments

All teachers are paid by Shining Stars Homeschooling twice per month at a rate of $25.00 to $32.50 per hour.