Elementary Special Education Tutor
About The Position
Thrive Education Partners is seeking an exceptional elementary special education teacher or learning specialist to provide individualized academic support to students in the Los Angeles area. We are looking for a warm, dynamic, and highly responsive educator who understands how to support children with diverse learning needs while maintaining high expectations for their growth. Great individualized instruction starts with understanding the whole learner: where a student is academically, how they learn best, which underlying skills or learning differences may be creating barriers, and what supports will help them move forward. Our tutors use that understanding to establish meaningful goals, design targeted instruction, and help students make clear, measurable progress over time. The ideal candidate is an experienced elementary educator with a strong special education background who can recognize why a student is struggling—not simply that they are struggling. This person should be comfortable adapting curriculum, breaking complex skills into manageable steps, providing explicit and systematic instruction, and adjusting their approach in real time based on student response.
Requirements
- Significant experience teaching or supporting elementary students with learning differences.
- A strong foundation in special education, intervention, or individualized instruction.
- Ability to look beneath a student's academic performance to determine the specific skills or barriers contributing to difficulty.
- Comfort working with students with needs such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADHD, executive-function challenges, autism, language-based learning differences, and other learning profiles.
- Understanding of how to scaffold instruction without unnecessarily lowering expectations.
- High responsiveness and ability to pivot instruction when a particular approach isn't working.
- Ability to balance remediation of foundational skills with support for the student's current classroom curriculum.
- Understanding the importance of progress monitoring and ability to use student performance to guide instructional decisions.
- Warmth, patience, creativity, flexibility, and a genuine ability to connect with children.
- Value collaboration with families and other professionals supporting the student.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Special Education, Elementary Education, Education, or a related field.
- Special education teaching credential or equivalent professional experience strongly preferred.
- Experience as a special education teacher, interventionist, learning specialist, resource teacher, or educational therapist.
- Training in evidence-based reading, writing, and/or math intervention approaches is a plus.
- Experience interpreting psychoeducational evaluations, IEP goals, assessment results, or progress-monitoring data is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide individualized instruction to elementary-aged students with a range of learning needs and learning differences.
- Assess students' current skills and use available school records, evaluations, assessment data, and observations to identify instructional priorities.
- Develop individualized learning goals and intentionally plan instruction toward those goals.
- Provide targeted support in reading, writing, and mathematics, based on each student's needs.
- Differentiate and scaffold grade-level content so students can meaningfully access learning while continuing to build foundational skills.
- Use explicit, systematic instruction and evidence-based intervention strategies when appropriate.
- Support executive-function skills including attention, organization, task initiation, working memory, and independence.
- Monitor student progress and adjust instruction when a student is not responding as expected.
- Build strong, trusting relationships with students and create sessions that are engaging, encouraging, and appropriately challenging.
- Communicate thoughtfully and professionally with parents and Thrive's educational team about student progress, priorities, and areas of continued need.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
