Early Childhood Teacher $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks
Description
Young children don't recall every lesson, but they always remember the adult who saw their potential. That defines this position.
At Alpha, academic work is completed in only two hours each day through adaptive learning technology. This structure allows Guides to concentrate on what transforms lives: fostering confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges. Your day won't involve standing at the front delivering lessons. Instead, you'll coach students through obstacles, recognize their achievements, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic belief.
You'll guide one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half your time is dedicated to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining time involves coaching students individually and in small groups, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every child progresses toward challenging weekly objectives. Each interaction counts. Students should emerge from your workshops more skilled than when they entered and finish coaching sessions convinced they can accomplish more than they imagined.
This position isn't suited for someone seeking to deliver curriculum or oversee a traditional classroom. It's designed for someone who enjoys motivating young learners, excels with measurable results, and believes the right coach can alter a child's path. If you've energized kids as a teacher, coach, camp counselor, youth leader, or performer, you'll discover a distinctly different classroom environment here.
This is a full-time, on-site position at an Alpha campus. We recruit nationally, so job listings may appear in nearby cities without a campus.
Current openings at this salary level are located in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Georgetown, Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, and Houston, TX; and Park City (Salt Lake City area), UT.
If you're drawn to a different Alpha campus, submit your application and indicate your preferred location—we'll evaluate you for the relevant opening.
What you will be doing
- Facilitate compelling life-skills workshops that enable K-3 students to develop communication, focus, feedback, and other enduring skills through active engagement rather than passive listening.
- Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child advances toward challenging weekly learning targets.
- Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, coaching students until they exhibit genuine mastery—not merely attendance.
- Tailor your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, whether that involves songs, movement, and narrative for younger children or greater independence and responsibility for older students.
- Cultivate relationships where students feel confident enough to push past their perceived limits.
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering academic instruction from a whiteboard. Students complete academics via adaptive software.
- Creating curriculum from the ground up. You'll refine and customize proven playbooks rather than designing lessons.
- Observing students as they work quietly on computers. Your responsibility is active coaching, encouragement, and engagement.
- Reducing expectations when students face difficulties. Success means helping students meet the standard, not adjusting the standard downward.
- Overseeing homework, grading assignments, or handling standard parent communications.
Key responsibilities
Develop a K-3 cohort of students who are excited to attend school, reliably meet ambitious learning objectives, and acquire the life skills that position them to succeed well beyond elementary school.
Candidate requirements
- Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus. Current openings at this salary level are located in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Georgetown, Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, and Houston, TX; and Park City (Salt Lake City area), UT.
- Bachelor's degree in any field.
- Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4-9 in teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or comparable settings.
- Demonstrated success motivating young children to reach demanding goals, with concrete examples of your influence.
- Ease with using AI-powered learning tools while directing your own efforts toward coaching, motivation, and life-skill instruction.
- Capacity to combine warmth with consistent high expectations.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.
Nice to have
- Background in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori education, progressive schools, or high-engagement after-school programs.
- Personal history of reaching ambitious goals in academics, athletics, or professional pursuits.
- Exceptional storytelling or performance abilities that naturally captivate young children.
- Proven success helping hesitant or reserved children transform into confident, active participants.
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