Elementary Instructor

Art of Problem Solving
Bellevue, WA Part Time
POSTED ON 5/31/2024
AoPS Academy is a program of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), a global leader in K–12 advanced education. AoPS is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, AoPS has trained hundreds of thousands of the country’s top students through its online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. AoPS Academy offers unique problem solving curriculum at its in-person locations across the country as well as through the virtual campus.

The AoPS Academy in Bellevue, WA is hiring part-time Elementary Instructors. We are looking for professionals with strong math, writing, and humanities backgrounds to teach our engaging Math and Language Arts curriculum to small classes of high-achieving elementary students.

Our instructors contribute greatly to the success of our students and are an integral part of our Academy family. This may be a great fit for you if you enjoy facilitating discussions in a collaborative and engaging student-led classroom, building relationships with students, and making a direct impact on how they learn and approach math and language arts.

Our math classes challenge students to tackle difficult problems that are not replicas of problems they've already seen. This teaches students how to learn, so they'll be ready for the challenges of top-tier colleges and internationally competitive careers.

Language Arts classes challenge students to approach a variety of problem solving scenarios within different language arts contexts such as a spellbound fantasy island, Greek mythology, American history, and unsolved mysteries. Visit our Course Catalog to see more details regarding all of our class offerings.

We Are Currently Hiring For The Following

  • substitutes with wide availability who can teach multiple advanced elementary levels in both math and language arts
  • candidates who are open to both substituting this academic year and are also interested in an assigned weekly class for the 2024-2025 academic year

Job Duties

You will use company-created materials to prepare for and teach advanced courses that focus on problem solving and critical thinking. This allows instructors to focus on the delivery of material. As an AoPS Academy Elementary Instructor, you will:

  • Prepare for weekly lessons created by our curriculum team.
  • Actively engage students in the course material throughout each class.
  • Expertly manage a classroom of up to 16 students.
  • Regularly grade students’ tests and provide comprehensive feedback on writing assignments to help students improve writing skills on unit projects.
  • Meet with students and families, as needed, during the 15 minutes before or after class.
  • Substitute for classes from time to time.

Skills And Experience

  • A Bachelor’s degree in a STEM-related field, Education, or a humanities field, or equivalent experience, ideally related to math and/or language arts.
  • Must have experience teaching or tutoring students. Classroom teaching experience at the K-5 level is preferred. A formal teaching credential is not required.
  • Possess strong content knowledge in math, reading, writing, and grammar with the ability to help students navigate advanced concepts requiring critical thinking.
  • Skillfully provide clear, thoughtful, and thorough feedback on students’ writing assignments.
  • Expertly motivate and challenge advanced learners.

Location and Schedule:

As this is an in-person position at our Bellevue campus location, candidates must be located in Bellevue or the greater Seattle area and must be able to commute to our campus.

This position requires a minimum initial commitment of about 3 hours per week for each assigned class. Each course meets once per week for 1 hour 45 minutes. Please note that AoPS Academy is an afterschool program with classes in the evenings and on weekends, so candidates must be available to teach during weekday after-school hours (as early as 4pm) and/or on weekends.

Benefits And Compensation

The instructor rate at our Bellevue location is $33/hour. The rate includes flexible work time, 15 minutes early arrival immediately before class, actual class time, and the 15 minutes after class ends. Some benefits of the position include:

  • Paid Sick Leave
  • 401K retirement plan with company match
  • Employee discount on AoPS Academy classes, AoPS Online, and Beast Academy Online yearly subscriptions. Note that discounts for courses and online subscriptions only apply to active employees and children/dependents of the employee
  • Eligible for a pay increase after successfully teaching a full academic year at an AoPS Academy campus

In order to be considered for this position you must be legally authorized to work in the US. We are unable to offer sponsorship, including STEM-OPT and H-1B.

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