Reading Tutor $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- Position located onsite in Austin, TX.
- Compensation: $100,000 annually, distributed weekly - Health benefits begin on day one
- Relocation assistance provided
Many young children learn best when instruction aligns with familiar environments. For students immersed in gaming culture, concepts like progression, repetition, and skill mastery are already intuitive.
NextGen Academy is a school designed specifically for children who connect with gaming. Learning happens through adaptive platforms, with adults serving as facilitators and mentors. Reading represents the area where early-grade students require the most direct, individualized support—and that is your focus.
You will lead small-group reading sessions for students in grades K-2. Your approach will combine structured literacy techniques with adaptive technology that continuously monitors each learner's development. When a student encounters difficulty with phonetic decoding, you intervene. When a student achieves a milestone, you acknowledge it. Group sizes remain small enough for you to understand each child's current reading ability, personal interests, and individual motivators.
The outcome is seeing children who once struggled with foundational letter-sound correspondence begin to engage eagerly with books—all within a school environment where advancement is recognized both digitally and academically.
Lead learning. Love growing. Apply now.
What you will be doing
- Plan and facilitate small-group reading workshops for students in grades K-2, ensuring phonics instruction is interactive, engaging, and tailored to individual needs
- Modify instruction dynamically according to student performance, assessed reading levels, and observable engagement indicators
- Conduct motivational one-on-one or small-group sessions with students to support progress in adaptive literacy platforms and meet instructional targets
- Review and interpret student performance data generated by adaptive software, using insights to personalize instruction for each reading cohort
- Employ storytelling techniques, humor, gaming-related metaphors, and affirmative feedback to sustain student effort and address reluctance
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering whole-class lectures — learning occurs through self-paced applications and your targeted small-group sessions, not traditional frontal teaching
- Overseeing a full classroom of 25+ students — your work centers on small reading groups where each learner receives direct attention
- Adhering to a predetermined, commercial curriculum — you create your own instructional plans informed by live student data
- Teaching esports skills or social-emotional competencies — your role is that of a literacy specialist, dedicated solely to reading development
- Confronting outdated pedagogical systems — this institution was designed from inception to integrate adaptive technology with student motivation
Key responsibilities
Support K-2 students in achieving accelerated reading growth through targeted small-group instruction and adaptive software integration in a gaming-inspired school environment where daily attendance is enthusiastically high.
Candidate requirements
- Available to work onsite at NextGen Academy in Austin, TX
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline (education, literacy, or related areas are typical but not mandatory)
- Master's degree in reading instruction OR certification in structured literacy methodologies (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, LETRS, Neuhaus, UFLI, or comparable evidence-based phonics frameworks)
- Minimum of 2 years' experience providing small-group reading instruction to students in grades K-2 or to learners experiencing reading difficulties
- Proven capacity to evaluate student reading proficiency and independently develop differentiated instructional strategies
- Genuine interest in video games and gaming culture, regardless of personal gaming experience
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
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