Online tutoring jobs for former and current Mississippi special education teachers

For former teachers: a remote job 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 15 states where SpecialEdResource can currently employ tutors, and Mississippi is one of them.

My Mississippi teaching license 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.

A Mississippi standard license is valid for five school years, and the Mississippi Department of Education’s (MDE’s) licensure guidelines say: “All licenses expire on June 30th of the year of expiration.” Renewal is filed online in MECCA, MDE’s educator licensure system, with continuing education units, college coursework or the National Board process, in an amount set by your license class. For renewing a license that has not expired, the guidelines add: “Only credits earned within the renewal cycle indicated on the educator’s official Mississippi educator license may be used for licensure renewal.”

If yours has already expired, the guidelines say: “Mississippi educators may reinstate an expired five-year standard license with one of the following options:” a one-year license on an application alone, during which you meet the renewal requirements and then apply for the remaining four years; reinstatement with coursework or professional learning credits earned within or after your last renewal cycle; reinstatement with a valid standard license from another state; and, if you retired from a Mississippi public school, reinstatement with an official letter from PERS, dated in the year you submit it. On credits, the reinstatement rules say: “Documentation submitted for renewal must have been completed within or after the most previous renewal cycle.” The steps are in our Mississippi teaching license guide.

Left a Mississippi public school job? Your PERS account

If you leave a job covered by the Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi (PERS), you can leave your contributions with PERS or, once you have left, ask for a refund of them. PERS’s Member Handbook, written before Tier 5 began on March 1, 2026, says that if you leave them, “you become an inactive member, you retain your right to a lifetime retirement benefit when you meet eligibility requirements”. A retirement benefit needs vesting: 4 years of membership service if you were hired on or before June 30, 2007, and 8 years if you were hired on or after July 1, 2007; PERS’s Retirement Tiers Overview also lists 8 years for Tier 5. If you take a refund, the handbook says: “Refunding your account contributions means losing your membership in PERS as well as the accompanying service credit. You also waive and relinquish all accrued vested rights.” A refund pays back your own contributions and interest, and the handbook says: “Employer contributions are not credited to individual member accounts and are not payable to members through refunds.” Questions about your own account go to PERS at 800-444-7377.

If you teach in a Mississippi 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