Part-time Private Teacher for Profoundly Gifted Child

Part-time Private Teacher for Profoundly Gifted Child Thrive Education Partners

• 5.0 Farmers Branch, TX Job Details Full-time $35,000
• $45,000 a year 1 hour ago Benefits Paid time off Qualifications Teaching math Gifted and Talented Education Certification Bachelor of Science Bachelor's degree Literacy education Full Job Description Private Teacher for Profoundly Gifted Elementary Student

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Dallas, TX Location:

Dallas, Texas Schedule:

Part-time; approximately 12-15 instructional hours per week, with flexibility for enrichment, planning, and occasional learning outings

Start Date:

Flexible; summer planning preferred with academic start in late summer/early fall

Compensation:

$35,000

• 45,000 annually, depending on schedule, experience, qualifications, and overall fit

Position Type:

W-2 employee role through Thrive Education Partners; benefits options may be available depending on final employment structure Role Overview We're looking for an exceptional Private Teacher to design and lead a highly personalized, part-time homeschool learning experience for a profoundly gifted seven-year-old student in Dallas, Texas. This is a rare opportunity for an educator who loves big ideas, fast-moving learners, deep curiosity, advanced academic content, and the chance to build a truly customized school experience around a highly focused 12-15 hour weekly instructional model. The student is currently elementary-aged but learns well beyond grade level in several areas, especially math. He is intensely curious, highly verbal, funny, analytical, and motivated by challenge, systems, data, games, logic, and meaningful recognition. He thrives when adults take his ideas seriously, meet him at his level, and help him explore the world with both structure and imagination. This role is not a traditional elementary teaching position. The right educator will not be expected to know every advanced topic the student may eventually want to explore. Instead, the family is looking for a true learning guide: someone who can build a strong relationship, organize a thoughtful academic ecosystem, protect his love of learning, support foundational skill development, coordinate with outside specialists when needed, and help translate his natural curiosity into meaningful projects, progress, and long-term opportunity. The family has a dedicated learning space in the home and is deeply invested in creating an educational environment that is rigorous, joyful, flexible, intellectually honest, and developmentally appropriate. They want a teacher who can honor the fact that this child may think years ahead academically while still remembering that he is also a seven-year-old boy who needs movement, play, humor, snacks, autonomy, and room to be a kid. Student Profile You'll be working one-on-one with a profoundly gifted elementary-aged learner who is curious, verbal, observant, and deeply self-driven. He loves math, systems, coding, Minecraft, Pokémon, chess, strategy games, data tracking, history, science, music, piano, language, spelling, fiction books, and games with complex rules. Math is one of the clearest ways he makes sense of the world. He is already exploring concepts far beyond typical first-grade content, including geometry, coordinate planes, fractions, order of operations, formulas, ratios, and higher-level mathematical thinking. He loves tests, data, progress tracking, and the feeling of demonstrating what he knows. He is also highly imaginative and playful. He enjoys creating obstacle courses, inventing games, reading book series, tracking game outcomes, asking unusual questions, and turning everyday experiences into opportunities for investigation. He responds beautifully to adults who are curious with him, willing to say "let's figure it out," and able to follow his thinking without trying to slow it down unnecessarily. The student benefits from clear expectations, visual schedules, chunked assignments, choice within structure, positive reinforcement, and adults who can help him organize his many ideas into a workable plan. He can become frustrated by ambiguity, vague writing expectations, poorly communicated directions, or adults who are overly rigid, impatient, dismissive, or easily frustrated. Writing and fine-motor output may require thoughtful support. He is working with OT and has made meaningful progress, but his brain often moves faster than his hand can record. A successful teacher will know how to support written expression, executive functioning, task initiation, and organization without lowering the level of thinking expected from him. The family is socially open-minded, intellectually curious, nonreligious, and values honest history, cultural awareness, compassion, equity, and respect for different perspectives. They want a teacher who is comfortable in that environment and able to approach history, literature, civics, science, and current events with accuracy, nuance, and care. Spanish is a meaningful part of the family's life and culture. Spanish fluency is not required, but it would be a wonderful bonus. The family is open to incorporating Spanish through the primary teacher or through outside enrichment. What You'll Do

• Design and lead a highly personalized one-on-one homeschool program for a profoundly gifted elementary-aged student.
• Teach and coordinate core academics, including math, reading, writing, science, history, social studies, and language arts, while adapting pacing to the student's readiness, interests, and demonstrated mastery.
• Provide approximately 12-15 hours of focused instructional time per week, likely across 3-4 mornings or another mutually agreed-upon schedule.
• Build a thoughtful weekly rhythm that balances focused academic instruction, independent work, movement breaks, projects, enrichment, outdoor time, and student-led exploration.
• Help select, adapt, and sequence curriculum in partnership with the family and Thrive's academic support team.
• Support advanced math exploration while also ensuring that foundational skills, conceptual understanding, written explanations, and academic habits remain strong.
• Coordinate with outside tutors or specialists when appropriate, especially for advanced math, enrichment, OT-related goals, music, Spanish, or other areas of specialized interest.
• Use project-based learning to help the student turn his interests into meaningful work products, such as presentations, models, experiments, research projects, portfolios, videos, or demonstrations of mastery.
• Create systems for progress monitoring, portfolio documentation, benchmark testing, and long-term academic planning.
• Help the student review and understand his own progress through data, goals, checklists, benchmarks, or other motivating systems.
• Provide clear visual schedules, chunked assignments, written expectations, and consistent routines that help the student feel grounded while still allowing room for choice and creativity.
• Support written expression, organization, task initiation, and executive functioning in a way that respects the student's intelligence and reduces unnecessary frustration.
• Incorporate gamified learning, challenges, puzzles, chess, coding, strategy, simulations, experiments, and real-world applications whenever appropriate.
• Build in movement, indoor physical activity, outings, museum visits, nature exploration, field experiences, and other enrichment that connects learning to the world.
• Encourage independent learning while helping the student evaluate sources, use technology thoughtfully, and explore topics safely and sequentially.
• Communicate clearly with the family about goals, progress, curriculum decisions, observations, and next steps. What Makes Someone Successful
• You are warm, calm, patient, and intellectually curious.
• You love working with gifted or twice-exceptional learners and understand that high ability does not eliminate the need for structure, support, relationship, and developmentally appropriate expectations.
• You are not intimidated by a child who may ask advanced questions, challenge assumptions, move quickly, or want to know "why" behind everything.
• You know how to be a guide rather than a gatekeeper. You can help a student explore deeply without needing to control every direction the learning takes.
• You are comfortable saying, "I don't know yet, but let's find out," and you enjoy modeling how thoughtful learners research, question, test, revise, and think critically.
• You can teach foundational skills while also creating rich projects around math, physics, coding, engineering, history, geography, civics, music, literature, travel, language, or student interests.
• You understand that relationship comes first. This student will thrive with someone who sees him clearly, enjoys him genuinely, and can build trust before pushing too hard academically.
• You are highly organized but not rigid. You can create a plan, adjust the plan, and stay calm when the student's curiosity opens a new door.
• You know how to support writing, fine-motor output, executive functioning, and task initiation with practical tools such as chunking, visual supports, dictation options, outlining, modeling, and gradual independence.
• You are comfortable with a flexible homeschool schedule that may include core academics in the morning and enrichment, outings, projects, or independent work later in the day.
• You are energized by collaboration with parents, outside tutors, and Thrive's academic support team.
• You bring professionalism, discretion, sound judgment, and emotional maturity to a private-family setting.
• You are aligned with a family culture that values honest history, open-mindedness, respect, compassion, inclusion, and curiosity. Logistics & Compensation

Location:

Dallas, Texas; instruction will take place primarily in the family's home in a dedicated learning space.

Schedule:

Approximately 12-15 instructional hours per week. The family is envisioning a highly focused, part-time homeschool model with concentrated academic instruction, likely spread across 3-4 mornings per week.

Instructional Time:

The role is expected to include 12-15 hours of direct instruction per week, with additional flexibility for planning, communication, enrichment coordination, or occasional learning-connected outings depending on the final agreement.

Fridays:

Fridays may remain open for enrichment, peer experiences, martial arts/indoor movement, field trips, family time, or teacher planning, depending on the final schedule.

Start Date:

Flexible. Summer planning and transition time preferred, with academic programming beginning in late summer or early fall.

Compensation:

$35,000

• 45,000 annually, depending on schedule, experience, qualifications, and overall fit.

Employment Type:

W-2 employee role through Thrive Education Partners.

Benefits:

Benefits options may be available depending on final employment structure.

Transportation:

The teacher may occasionally drive or accompany the student to enrichment activities, tutoring, museums, nature experiences, local outings, or other learning-connected opportunities.

Travel:

Occasional travel-connected learning may be possible, though not required. The family is open to creative ways of connecting trips, projects, and real-world experiences when appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with gifted learners strongly preferred. Teaching certification, homeschool experience, advanced academic content knowledge, project-based learning experience, or experience with gifted/2e students is a plus.

Spanish:

Spanish fluency or conversational ability is a bonus, but not required.

Gender/Age:

The family is open to the right fit. A strong male role model may be especially meaningful, but the priority is personality, patience, connection, and fit.

Experience Level:

Traditional classroom experience is not the only pathway. The family is open to educators, gifted specialists, homeschool teachers, academic mentors, former teachers, or intellectually curious professionals who can connect deeply with the student and support a thoughtful learning ecosystem. Why This Role This is an extraordinary opportunity to help build a learning environment around a child who is truly hungry to learn. The family is not looking for someone to recreate school at home. They are looking for someone who can help design something better: more responsive, more flexible, more challenging, more humane, and more aligned with how this student actually thinks. You will have the freedom to be creative here. You can build projects, design challenges, use games, explore big questions, take learning into the community, coordinate enrichment, document progress, and help a young learner see that school can be joyful, rigorous, honest, and deeply personal. This role will be especially fulfilling for someone who has ever wished they could teach without the constraints of pacing guides, classroom management demands, arbitrary grade-level limits, or one-size-fits-all expectations. You will get to focus on one remarkable child, build a strong relationship, and help shape an educational path that may open doors for years to come. Although this is a part-time role, it is deeply meaningful work. The family is intentionally designing a focused instructional model rather than a full traditional school day, allowing the teacher to bring their best energy to high-impact instruction, planning, mentoring, and relationship-building. You will not be expected to do this alone. Thrive Education Partners will support the family and teacher with curriculum thinking, progress monitoring, long-term planning, assessment structure, portfolio development, and overall educational design. The goal is to create a thoughtful ecosystem around the student so that his curiosity, ability, and joy in learning are protected and expanded. About Thrive Thrive Education Partners connects exceptional educators with families seeking highly personalized, values-driven education. Our placements go beyond traditional tutoring or classroom teaching. We help create thoughtful learning environments where students can grow academically, build confidence, and experience the joy of meaningful, individualized education.

Pay:

$35,000.00

• $45,000.

00 per year

Benefits:

Paid time off Application Question(s): Describe your experience with profoundly gifted students: What is the highest level of math you feel comfortable teaching?

Education:

Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

teaching: 5 years (Required)

Language:

Spanish (Preferred)

Work Location:

In person