SPED Tutor - Academic Intervention

At Tutor Me Education, we are revolutionizing the way students learn, and we're seeking passionate teachers and tutors with special education experience to provide 1:1 in-home tutoring in Glendale, CA! If you're committed to making a difference in the lives of students with special needs and helping them achieve academic success, we want to hear from you!

• In-Person Tutoring in Glendale, CA
• Schedule: 10 hours per month, 2x a week for 1.25 hours
• Pay range is between $25 and $35

• Teaching credential required
• Experience working with upper-elementary or middle-school students with significant academic gaps
• Experience supporting students with ADHD, short-term memory challenges, and/or learning differences
• Strong background in foundational math, including number sense, basic operations, math fluency, and conceptual understanding
• Strong reading instruction skills, including reading fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, and leveled reading
• Experience supporting writing, including grammar, language conventions, sentence construction, organization, and written expression
• Skilled at providing explicit, systematic, and repetitive instruction
• Familiar with multisensory teaching strategies and visual supports such as number lines, charts, and manipulatives
• Strong understanding of executive functioning skills, including organization, task initiation, working memory, routines, and independent learning
• Patient, encouraging, and able to provide consistent reinforcement without creating unnecessary pressure
• Comfortable adjusting the pace of instruction based on the student's learning needs
• Able to break down complex concepts into manageable steps and provide repeated opportunities for practice
• Strong ability to build confidence and motivate students who may become anxious or frustrated with challenging academic tasks

• →Provide individualized academic instruction based on the student's current instructional levels and learning needs
• →Teach foundational math concepts including number sense, basic operations, computation, and math fluency
• →Use visual supports, manipulatives, number lines, hundreds charts, and other hands-on tools to strengthen mathematical understanding
• →Prioritize conceptual understanding over memorization and provide repeated opportunities for meaningful practice
• →Support reading fluency through appropriately leveled texts and structured reading practice
• →Develop reading comprehension and vocabulary through explicit instruction, guided reading, questioning, and discussion
• →Provide writing instruction focused on sentence construction, grammar, language conventions, organization, and written expression
• →Teach strategies for organizing ideas and completing written assignments independently
• →Support executive functioning skills including task initiation, organization, working memory, following routines, and task completion
• →Use repetition, visual cues, structured routines, and multisensory strategies to reinforce retention
• →Provide frequent comprehension checks and opportunities to review previously learned material
• →Avoid unnecessary time pressure and create a learning environment focused on mastery, confidence, and steady progress
• →Incorporate the student's interests, including baseball, trains, transportation, recycling and garbage trucks, Nintendo Switch games, and music, to increase engagement
• →Monitor progress and adjust instruction to reinforce skills and address ongoing academic needs
• →Maintain a consistent, patient, and encouraging learning environment that promotes confidence and independence