Elective Teacher Jobs Online High School Yrs 9–12

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Elective Teacher

Single weekly lesson · Any year group (Yrs 9–12) · Allbright Global Academy
Independent Contractor · Florida
Pay is identical across all year groups — Yr 9, 10, 11 & 12
Year 1 · Building the course
$4,800
Full recording load · Highest earning year
Year 2+ · Returning teacher
$3,300
Lighter recording · Loyalty rate
New teacher taking over an existing course earns $2,980 in Year 2+ · Full breakdown below
Schedule: 28 weeks of live instruction per year, plus 4.2 weeks of Portfolio in Action supervision (student check-ins and portfolio guidance, no live lessons) — approximately 6.6 weeks off during the academic year. Elective classes meet once weekly on a fixed day according to the published Allbright Global Academy academic calendar. Economics is the exception — see note below.
Elective classes at AGA give students the chance to go deeper in areas they are passionate about — Business & Personal Finance, US Government, Modern World History, Modern European History, and US History. This document sets out the single-lesson-per-week elective format. Here is exactly what you will earn, with no ambiguity.

Your pay has three components

Live Teaching
1 lesson per week (45–50 min) · 28 teaching weeks per year
Delivered live via Zoom · Schedule confirmed at the start of each term
$1,680
$60/week
Recorded Content — Year 1
120 minutes of recorded content per week · Broken into 20–30 min segments
Recorded using ScreenPal (licence provided) · Zoom session recordings may be imported into ScreenPal for editing
$2,520
$90/week
Marking & Administration
20 graded assignments per year · 6 exams (2 term, 4 quarter)
1 × 45-min staff meeting per month · 3 PD days at year start (10am–1pm EST)
Minimum enrolment: 4 students required to activate this class
$600
annual flat fee

Teaching weeks & calendar

Metric
Value
Live teaching weeks (new instruction only, excludes 2 exam weeks)
28 weeks
Live teaching + exam weeks
30 weeks
Total working weeks (includes Portfolio in Action, excludes only breaks)
34.2 weeks
Weeks off (breaks only; Portfolio in Action counted as working)
6.6 weeks
Teacher calendar span
Sept 8, 2026 – June 25, 2027
(1 week past student end-date, for grading/report cards)
Does "teaching weeks" include Portfolio in Action? No. Portfolio in Action (4.2 weeks total: Oct 26–Nov 2, Feb 22–26, Apr 19–30) involves no live lessons. Teachers instead do brief per-student check-ins (~10 min/student) plus video/portfolio upkeep (~30 min/week) — supervisory, not instructional, time. So it's a working week for teachers, but not a "teaching week."

What you earn

Scenario
Annual total
Key difference
Year 1 — building the course
$4,800
Full recording load · You create all videos
Year 2+ — returning teacher
$3,300
~30 min/wk maintenance recording · Lighter workload · Loyalty rate
Year 2+ — new teacher, existing course
$2,980
~30 min/wk maintenance recording · Videos already exist from prior teacher
Why Year 2+ pays less: The reduction is entirely in the recording component — from 120 min/wk of new content down to ~30 min/wk of maintenance updates. Live teaching, marking, and admin pay are the same every year.
Returning teacher rate: If you teach the same elective the following year, your rate is $3,300 — higher than the $2,980 new-hire Year 2+ rate. This recognises the work you put into building the course and your familiarity with AGA students.
Recording rate note: Your Year 1 recording expectation is 120 minutes of content per week, paid at $90/week.

IGCSE / AP track (if applicable)

If students in your elective elect to pursue AP or IGCSE track, you receive an additional fee per student on top of your base pay.

AP teacher premium
Per student · Per class · Per year · Paid each enrolment cycle
$350
per student
Example: If 5 students in your elective are on the AP track, you receive an additional $350 × 5 = $1,750 on top of your base contract pay for that year.
Most electives run AP. Most students who choose an elective do so to take the AP exam in that subject. This means most elective teachers receive the AP premium every year — it is a regular part of your pay, not a rare bonus.

What we expect of you

  • 1 live lesson per week via Zoom (45–50 min) across 28 teaching weeks
  • During Portfolio in Action weeks (4.2 weeks total, no live lessons): brief per-student check-ins (~10 min/student) plus ~30 min/week of video/portfolio upkeep
  • 120 minutes of new recorded video per week in Year 1 (using ScreenPal — licence provided)
  • ~30 min maintenance video per week in Year 2+ (updating or refreshing existing content)
  • 20 graded assignments per year and 6 exams (2 term-end, 4 quarter)
  • 1 × 45-minute staff meeting per month (virtual)
  • 3 professional development days at the start of the academic year (10am–1pm EST each)
  • IGCSE or AP familiarity strongly preferred — not required but advantageous
  • Minimum 4 students must enrol for the class to run — we will confirm enrolment numbers 6–8 weeks before term

Letters of recommendation

Should students request a letter of recommendation from you, this falls outside your standard contract and is compensated separately.

Letter of recommendation
Per letter · Written in your own voice based on your genuine knowledge of the student
University and college applications · Scholarship applications · Programme admissions
$75
per letter
A note on authenticity: Letters of recommendation must reflect your genuine knowledge of and relationship with the student. They should be written entirely in your own voice and words. The use of AI writing tools to generate or substantially draft letters is not permitted — authenticity is central to their value for our students, and AI-generated letters risk serious harm to student applications and to AGA's reputation with universities.

A note on Economics

Economics is unique among electives. It is structured as two distinct one-semester courses — Microeconomics in Term 1 and Macroeconomics in Term 2 — taught by the same teacher across the full academic year. Because each term constitutes its own full course with its own curriculum and recorded content, Economics is paid as two separate elective contracts, one per term, reflecting the genuine two-course workload.

Term 1
Microeconomics
One elective-single contract
Term 2
Macroeconomics
One elective-single contract
Live teaching structure: Unlike standard electives (one lesson per week across the full year), each Economics term is delivered as two back-to-back lessons on a single fixed day each week — 45 min + 50 min = 95 minutes total — across that term's roughly 14 teaching weeks. This is the same total lesson count as a standard elective's full-year schedule, just compressed into one semester, mirroring Core's double-lesson structure adapted to a one-semester course.
Recording load: Economics Year 1 requires 120 minutes of new recorded content per week during that course's active term only — you are not recording for both Microeconomics and Macroeconomics at the same time. Year 2+ maintenance recording follows the standard ~30 min/week rate.
Exam structure: Standard full-year electives sit 6 exams (2 term-end + 4 quarter). Because each Economics course runs for only one term, exams follow that term's own quarters instead — 2 quarter exams + 1 term-end exam per course. That's 3 exams for Microeconomics and 3 for Macroeconomics, 6 across the full year in total, just split evenly between the two terms rather than spanning both.
Why Years 11 & 12 students pay higher tuition: Teacher pay is identical across all year groups. The higher tuition for Years 11 & 12 ($12,000 vs $10,000) reflects the significant additional work carried out by AGA administration — not teachers — including university application advising, transcript preparation, letters of recommendation, and ongoing liaison with universities on behalf of students. This work is led by the founder and director every Friday as part of the school's core offering.
Economics — Annual Total
Per Term
Year 1 — building both courses
$4,800 ($9,600 full year)
Year 2+ — returning teacher
$3,300 ($6,600 full year)
Year 2+ — new teacher, existing course
$2,980 ($5,960 full year)
A note on recorded content: Videos you create are branded as Allbright Global Academy content. AGA holds the right to use and publish them. You are welcome to reuse your recordings in your own private teaching — we just ask that you remove AGA branding before doing so, and do not post them publicly (e.g. on YouTube or social media). You own your expertise; we share the output.

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