Online tutoring jobs for former and current Georgia special education teachers

For former teachers: a remote job after you’ve left the classroom

If you’ve left classroom teaching but still want to teach students with IEPs, 504 plans and learning differences, this job is live, one-on-one online tutoring, one student at a time. SpecialEdResource works with students from pre-K through 12th grade, plus adult learners. It’s part-time W-2 employment, with paid training.

Our greatest need is weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern, which is your local time in Georgia. We ask for at least five hours a week of availability, and tutors work 5 to 25 hours a week. Available hours depend on student demand and schedule fit.

You need special education certification and a teaching license, both from any US state, with the license current, or renewed before you start. You also need to live in one of the 15 states where SpecialEdResource can currently employ tutors, and Georgia is one of them. Teachers anywhere in the state can apply.

My Georgia teaching certificate has expired. Can I still apply?

Yes, if you renew it before you start. Our application’s license question says:

Answer Yes if your license is current, or if it has expired or is inactive and you’ll renew it before you start. We check licenses before the first interview.

In Georgia, teaching licenses are called certificates, and the Georgia Professional Standards Commission (GaPSC) issues them. Georgia’s Professional teaching certificates are valid for five years, and GaPSC’s rule on validity says: “The expiration date of all certificates, with the exception of Waiver certificates, is June 30 of the final year of validity.” If you are not working in a Georgia school system, you renew on your own through your MyPSC account, with a $20 processing fee and one of GaPSC’s options, such as college coursework, professional learning units, continuing education units or National Board certification.

If yours has already expired, GaPSC says: “There are no penalties for expired certifications.” Its renewal rule says: “Renewal requirements for expired certificates must have been completed within the five (5)-year period preceding the date of renewal”. If your most recent renewable certificate expired between June 30, 2011, and June 30, 2017, the rule says “renewal credit is not required for reinstatement.” Any Special Georgia Requirements you still owe, such as Georgia’s special education course, still apply. The steps are in our Georgia teaching certificate guide.

Left a Georgia public school job? Your TRS account

If you leave a job covered by the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia (TRS), you can leave your contributions with TRS or ask for a refund of them. TRS’s page on contribution withdrawals says: “If you terminate your TRS covered employment you may apply for a refund of contributions and interest.” and “However, you are not eligible for a refund after you accept other TRS covered employment.” Vesting takes 10 years of creditable service, and TRS’s Member’s Guide says: “A member with at least 10 years of creditable service has a vested right to a benefit at age 60.” If you leave a TRS-covered position with that much service, it says “you will be entitled to a service retirement benefit upon attaining age 60 if you have not withdrawn your TRS contributions.” If you take a refund, TRS says: “If you withdraw your funds, you forfeit all rights to a monthly benefit.” On taxes, it says: “The taxable portion of your refund is subject to federal and Georgia taxes.” and “If you do not elect a rollover, federal tax law requires that TRS withhold 20% federal tax from the taxable portion of your refund. You may also be required to pay an additional 10% federal tax on early distribution when you separate from service before the year in which you reach 55.”

If you leave your contributions with TRS, its page on active and inactive accounts says: “If you terminate your TRS-covered position, your account will remain active for up to 4 years.” and “If you are out of service for more than 4 consecutive years, your TRS account will become inactive.” It adds: “Inactive accounts do not accrue interest.” As we read TRS’s rules, a job with a private company is not TRS-covered employment: it earns no TRS service credit, does not keep a TRS account active, and is not the “other TRS covered employment” that ends refund eligibility. Questions about your own account go to TRS (800-352-0650 or 404-352-6500).

If you teach in a Georgia school now: a side job during the school year

We hire special education tutors year-round. Our greatest need is weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern, which is your local time in Georgia. Evening and weekend tutors are welcome too: tell us when you can teach. Available hours depend on student demand and schedule fit. You don’t need to cover every grade, subject or time.

If you can fit tutoring around your teaching, we’d like to hear from you.

A special education job outside the classroom

• One student at a time. Each student has sessions with you an average of 2 to 3 times a week, live and online; a session usually lasts 30 minutes, 45 minutes or 1 hour.
• Choosing your students. You decide which students you want to work with.
• Materials. SpecialEdResource provides subscribed online resources and SpecialEdResource-created resources, and you choose and adapt materials for each student, because every child differs.
• Prep and notes. You're paid for tutoring time. Prep and notes are not paid separately; the session rate covers them. SpecialEdResource provides AI summary tools that make note-writing mostly copy and paste.
• Through the year. Most students keep meeting through summer and school breaks.

How hiring and sessions work

How is this different from teaching for a virtual school?

This is tutoring, not classroom teaching: you work with one student at a time, in live online sessions that usually last 30 minutes, 45 minutes or 1 hour, as a part-time W-2 employee of SpecialEdResource. Training is paid, and licenses and special education certification from any US state are welcome.

What the job pays

Starting pay: $23/hour, W-2. All tutors can earn a 10% performance bonus in any pay period when they tutor at least 10 hours and turn in session notes on time. How the pay, bonus and hours work