In-Home SPED Tutor: Literacy, Math & Communication

Tutor Me Education LLC; Los Gatos (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-Based Pay Incentives

Voluntary retirement program

Referral program

Flexible schedule

Help students with special needs reach

Job summary

Tutor Me Education seeks tutors with special education experience to provide 1:1 in-home tutoring in Los Gatos, CA. You will support elementary students with reading, writing, and math, guided by IEP goals and individualized instruction.

Ideal candidates are patient, engaging, and able to build rapport with children; pay ranges from $25 to $35 per hour, with 25 hours per month across 3 days per week. Sessions are 1.5 hours each, in-home, with flexible scheduling for families.

Qualifications

• Experience tutoring elementary-age students in reading, writing, and math.
• Experience supporting students with ASD preferred.
• Strong reading fluency, comprehension, phonics, spelling, vocabulary.
• Comfortable teaching foundational and elementary-level math concepts.
• Able to teach strategies for math word problems.
• Strong writing skills and experience supporting sentence development, grammar, spelling.

Responsibilities

• Provide individualized academic support across reading, writing, math, and language development.
• Improve reading accuracy, fluency, and comprehension through guided and leveled reading activities.
• Teach strategies for identifying key information, answering comprehension questions, and understanding unfamiliar words.
• Reinforce phonics, decoding, spelling rules, word recognition, and vocabulary development.
• Support writing through sentence development, spelling, grammar, conventions, and organization of ideas.
• Encourage the student to expand verbal responses and communicate ideas using complete and detailed responses.
• Provide math instruction focused on four-digit addition, subtraction with borrowing, multiplication concepts, multiplication facts, and foundational math skills.
• Teach strategies for understanding math word problems, identifying relevant information, selecting operations, and applying appropriate skills
• Use structured practice and repetition to strengthen retention and build academic confidence.
• Incorporate games, art activities, coloring, and other hands-on activities to maintain engagement.
• Use positive reinforcement such as verbal praise, stickers, and small rewards when appropriate.
• Adjust instruction based on the student's current academic level, progress, and learning needs.

Skills

Special education experience

In-home tutoring

Reading tutoring

Math tutoring

ASD support experience

Job description

Tutor Me Education seeks tutors with special education experience to provide 1:1 in-home tutoring in Los Gatos, CA. You will support elementary students with reading, writing, and math, guided by IEP goals and individualized instruction.

Ideal candidates are patient, engaging, and able to build rapport with children; pay ranges from $25 to $35 per hour, with 25 hours per month across 3 days per week. Sessions are 1.5 hours each, in-home, with flexible scheduling for families.