Science Instructor

POTENTIAL INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR INSTRUCTIONAL ASSIGNMENTS

Program: Science Instructor Opportunities

Location: On-site at partner schools; varies by assignment

Teaching Mode: In Person

Grade Levels: Elementary, Middle, and High School; varies by assignment

Schedule: Typically 1–4 instructional service hours per week after school

Program Length: Commonly approximately 10 weeks per assignment

Start Dates: Opportunities become available throughout the school year

Compensation: Typical compensation of $50+ per completed instructional service hour, depending on assignment scope, experience, location, schedule, and agreed compensation

Concorde Education is seeking independent instructional contractors to provide engaging, hands‑on science enrichment services for K–12 students.

This is a potential independent contractor assignment, not an employee position. Contractors may choose whether to apply for, accept, decline, or ignore available opportunities.

Assignments vary by school, grade level, schedule, curriculum, available materials, available technology, and program objectives.

Concorde may provide curriculum guidance, lesson‑plan suggestions, activity ideas, instructional resources, or program objectives. Contractors may use their professional judgment to adapt instruction within the assignment scope and applicable site requirements.

Depending on the accepted assignment, contractors may:

• Plan and facilitate engaging, age‑appropriate science enrichment sessions
• Introduce students to scientific concepts through safe, hands‑on experiments, demonstrations, investigations, and project‑based learning
• Adapt activities based on student experience levels, site requirements, available materials, and program objectives
• Guide students through observation, experimentation, data collection, critical thinking, and scientific inquiry, where applicable
• Maintain a safe, respectful, inclusive, and age‑appropriate learning environment
• Communicate assignment‑related needs or significant concerns with Concorde and school staff, as appropriate
• Complete a brief session completion form after each scheduled session
• Follow applicable site safety, visitor, technology, emergency, and student‑protection procedures

Assignments may include topics such as:

• Everyday chemistry using safe household materials
• States of matter and simple chemical reactions
• Kitchen science and food chemistry
• Cleaning science and how soaps and surfactants work
• Simple machines, force, and motion
• Engineering and design challenges using common household materials
• Environmental science, recycling, ecosystems, energy, and sustainability
• Observation, experimentation, measurement, and the scientific method
• Scientific reasoning, problem‑solving, and STEM exploration

Specific content, curriculum requirements, experiments, and instructional resources vary by assignment.

Preferred qualifications include:

• At least 60 college credits, where required by the applicable assignment or site
• Experience teaching, tutoring, coaching, mentoring, or leading activities with school‑age students
• Comfort explaining age‑appropriate science concepts through engaging, hands‑on instruction
• Strong communication, organization, and classroom facilitation skills
• Availability to provide services for the accepted assignment schedule and communicate schedule issues as soon as reasonably practicable
• Familiarity with classroom technology, Chromebooks, web‑based educational platforms, or related instructional tools

Preferred backgrounds may include educators, science teachers, STEM professionals, college or graduate students studying science or education, tutors, camp counselors, engineers, healthcare professionals, makers, hobbyists, and others with relevant instructional or scientific experience.

Assignments may utilize school‑provided science materials, classroom supplies, Chromebooks, educational technology, curriculum resources, lesson plans, experiment guides, and other instructional resources where available.

Contractors may use their own instructional methods and materials when appropriate, safe, age‑appropriate, lawful, and…