Want to Teach at Core?

If you are a great teacher with demonstrated experience, you might already be teaching full-time somewhere. But if you aren’t in a place in your life where full-time teaching works, Core might be a great fit for you. A lot of our teachers are:

• Early career teachers who have taught before but are now working on their master’s degree.

• Mid-career teachers who have taught for some years and are taking a step back to raise a family, focus more on their kids, or help with aging parents.

• Late-career or retired teachers looking for a new context in which to ply their trade.

• Graduate students in other disciplines (e.g., at nearby GCTS) with teaching background.

Prep and teaching for two 90-minute blocks per week per class, September through May, totaling about 60 sessions for the year. Two full evaluations due in December and May, plus a progress report in October. Correspondence with prospective parents leading up to the year and then your parents during the year. Additional time is minimal: plan on an in-person summer half-day retreat and a few in-person/virtual meetings throughout the year.

We strongly prefer candidates with at least a couple of years of classroom teaching experience. As a small, lean organization that meets in a borrowed space, our ability to support you in your day-to-day teaching is limited. We connect new teachers with our veterans but this arrangement means that we are looking for teachers who have taught in year-long classroom settings before. You need to be comfortable creating a syllabus, modulating homework assignments, giving meaningful assessments, engaging in creative teaching, interacting with parents, etc.

No. We rent space at Gordon College so similar to a college professor, you need to bring your teaching materials with you when you arrive and depart.

You earn a set amount for every class enrollment. For example, if you teach two classes, each with eight students, you are paid for 16 enrollments. We are competitive with part-time teaching arrangements at local Christian schools and adjunct teaching at local colleges.

We pay biweekly and you can choose a nine-month or twelve-month schedule.

Our teachers are hired as part-time employees, not contractors, of Core Homeschool Learning. This means that we withhold all appropriate taxes and pay half of your FICA, saving you money and simplifying your record-keeping, compared with issuing a 1099 where you have to track and pay your own taxes.