Elementary School Teacher Expert

• You can write pedagogical reasoning clearly enough for another teacher to follow it

Contract and pay

• $35 to $65/hr , paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.

• Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours.

• Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.

• No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.

• Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.

How our hiring process works

• Apply at /apply/elementary-school-teacher-expert. About five minutes. Resume plus a few structured questions.

• Resume review. Every application gets read against a published rubric and gets a decision.

• Written assessment. You may be asked to take a written assessment for further placement.

• Onboarding. Sign the contractor agreement, connect Stripe, and get platform access.

• Project match. You're matched to live work in your specialty, usually within a week of onboarding.

About AfterQuery

AfterQuery is an expert data lab. We build the evaluation and training data that frontier AI labs use to measure what their models can and can't do in real professional work. Our contributors are practicing professionals, not annotators, and the work is credited, reviewed, and paid at professional rates.

Responsibilities - Author realistic primary classroom scenarios from planning through assessment - Write reference answers with the developmental reasoning behind each choice - Grade model output for age appropriateness and instructional accuracy - Flag activities that look engaging but teach nothing

Required qualifications - Teaching license or certification with a primary education endorsement - 2+ years of teaching at the primary level - Depth in early literacy and numeracy instruction - Clear written English for documenting pedagogical reasoning - Able to commit at least 10 hours per week

Preferred qualifications - Training in structured literacy or the science of reading - Experience teaching multiple primary grades - Mentor teacher or team lead experience

Why apply - $35 to $65/hr, paid hourly via Stripe - 100% remote and fully async with no playground duty - Shape how frontier models reason about early learning - Ongoing project work with hours you set each week

Employment type: Contract Time commitment: 10 hours/week Location: Remote