Online tutoring jobs for former and current Oklahoma special education teachers

For former teachers: what this job offers after you’ve left the classroom

If you’ve left classroom teaching but still want to teach students with IEPs, 504 plans and learning differences, this job is live, one-on-one online tutoring, one student at a time. SpecialEdResource works with students from pre-K through 12th grade, plus adult learners. It’s part-time W-2 employment, with paid training.

Our greatest need is weekdays, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Central (9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern). We ask for at least five hours a week of availability, and tutors work 5 to 25 hours a week. Available hours depend on student demand and schedule fit.

You need special education certification and a teaching license, both from any US state, with the license current, or renewed before you start. You also need to live in one of the 14 states where SpecialEdResource can currently employ tutors, and Oklahoma is one of them.

My Oklahoma teaching certificate has expired. Does it still count?

Yes, if you renew it before you start. Our application’s license question says:

Answer Yes if your license is current, or if it has expired or is inactive and you’ll renew it before you start. We check licenses before the first interview.

An Oklahoma standard certificate is valid for five years, and renewal is online, in the Oklahoma Educator Credentialing System (OECS). On its renewal page, the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) says: “A standard renewal application can be submitted as early as January 1 the year the certificate expires.” As we read the State Board of Education’s rule, an expired standard certificate can still be renewed, and the renewed certificate’s start date depends on when you apply. OSDE adds: “If your most recent certificate has been expired for over a year, you will need to complete a new background check”.

Renewal also takes one of three options in the State Board’s renewal rule (OAC 210:20-9-96), each with its own conditions; the option of 75 professional development points, for those not employed as a teacher or administrator, is for a certificate that is still valid. The options and the steps are in our Oklahoma teaching certificate guide.

Left an Oklahoma public school job? Your TRS account

When you leave TRS-covered work, you can leave your money in TRS or ask for a refund of your own contributions. The Teachers’ Retirement System of Oklahoma (TRS) says in its FY2027 Member Handbook: “Withdrawal of an account terminates the right to benefits for all service credit earned before the date of withdrawal.” The handbook (pages 9 and 10) explains vesting (five years of eligible service credit if you joined TRS before November 1, 2017, seven if you joined on or after that date), refunds and how withdrawn service can be reinstated.

If you teach in an Oklahoma school now: a side job during the school year

We hire special education tutors year-round. Our greatest need is weekdays, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Central (9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern). Evening and weekend tutors are welcome too: tell us when you can teach. Available hours depend on student demand and schedule fit. You don’t need to cover every grade, subject or time.

If you can fit tutoring around your teaching, we’d like to hear from you.

A special education job outside the classroom

• One student at a time. Each student has sessions with you an average of 2 to 3 times a week, live and online; a session usually lasts 30 minutes, 45 minutes or 1 hour.
• Choosing your students. You decide which students you want to work with.
• Materials. SpecialEdResource provides subscribed online resources and SpecialEdResource-created resources, and you choose and adapt materials for each student, because every child differs.
• Prep and notes. You're paid for tutoring time. Prep and notes are not paid separately; the session rate covers them. SpecialEdResource provides AI summary tools that make note-writing mostly copy and paste.
• Through the year. Most students keep meeting through summer and school breaks.

How hiring and sessions work

How is this different from teaching for a virtual school?

This is tutoring, not classroom teaching: you work with one student at a time, in live online sessions that usually last 30 minutes, 45 minutes or 1 hour, as a part-time W-2 employee of SpecialEdResource. Training is paid, and licenses and special education certification from any US state are welcome.

What the job pays

Starting pay: $23/hour, W-2. All tutors can earn a 10% performance bonus in any pay period when they tutor at least 10 hours and turn in session notes on time. How the pay, bonus and hours work