AfterQueryDomain experts
High School Teacher Expert
$55/hr
About this role, in AfterQuery's words
This is a remote, part-time educational content role. You’ll create rubrics, exemplar responses, short research-style briefs, and instructional materials that mirror high-quality high school coursework. Your work will train next-generation AI models to reason more like expert educators. Projects are asynchronous and flexible, with ~10 hours/week expected when active.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Write detailed grading rubrics for assignments, essays, problem sets, and multi-step reasoning tasks
- Produce exemplar student responses at multiple proficiency levels, with structured feedback
- Draft short research briefs explaining common misconceptions, cognitive scaffolds, and pedagogical strategies
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- Create instructional materials: guided inquiry sequences, reading comprehension tasks, problem-solving breakdowns, and more
- Evaluate model outputs and flag issues with reasoning, structure, clarity, or pedagogy
Candidate background
Required qualifications
- Strong understanding of rubric design, assessment standards, and high school-level pedagogy
- 2+ years teaching, tutoring, or curriculum development at the high school level
- Experience evaluating student work and articulating reasoning-based feedback
- Interest in supporting the development of next-generation AI educational tools
Preferred qualifications
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- Experience with AP/IB curriculum design or standards alignment
- Degree in Education, English, Math, Science, History, or a related fiel
- Background in instructional design, literacy development, or competition coaching (debate, math, writing)
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in AfterQuery's words
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This is a remote, part-time educational content role. You’ll create rubrics, exemplar responses, short research-style briefs, and instructional materials that mirror high-quality high school coursework. Your work will train next-generation AI models to reason more like expert educators. Projects are asynchronous and flexible, with ~10 hours/week expected when active.
Responsibilities - Write detailed grading rubrics for assignments, essays, problem sets, and multi-step reasoning tasks - Produce exemplar student responses at multiple proficiency levels, with structured feedback - Draft short research briefs explaining common misconceptions, cognitive scaffolds, and pedagogical strategies - Create instructional materials: guided inquiry sequences, reading comprehension tasks, problem-solving breakdowns, and more - Evaluate model outputs and flag issues with reasoning, structure, clarity, or pedagogy
Required qualifications - Strong understanding of rubric design, assessment standards, and high school-level pedagogy - 2+ years teaching, tutoring, or curriculum development at the high school level - Experience evaluating student work and articulating reasoning-based feedback - Interest in supporting the development of next-generation AI educational tools
Preferred qualifications - Experience with AP/IB curriculum design or standards alignment - Degree in Education, English, Math, Science, History, or a related fiel - Background in instructional design, literacy development, or competition coaching (debate, math, writing)
Why apply - Excellent Compensation – Min. $40/hour, with top rates exceeding $120/hour - Mission-Driven Work – Improve the reasoning and evaluative abilities of frontier AI models - Flexible Role – Remote and asynchronous workflow
Working with AfterQueryPay, getting started and work, from AfterQuery's own pages
What the platform publishes in general. These are not extra terms confirmed for this particular role.
- Getting paid
- Approved work is paid every Friday for the prior week, by Stripe to a bank account, with no fees. Stripe holds the first payout for 7 days. docs.afterquery.com/articles/payments-taxes/payment-setup
- Before your first paid task
- One assessment per expert pool, unpaid and with no retake. Onboarding takes about 10 minutes: legal documents, phone, ID through Persona, and payments. docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/assessments, docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/complete-your-onb...
- How much work
- Projects are assigned by assessment fit as they come up, and higher-rated contributors get priority. docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/assessments, docs.afterquery.com/articles/about/contract-work
- Contract
- Independent contractor. Most contractors register as individuals. docs.afterquery.com/articles/about/contract-work, docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/complete-your-onb...
Read on the pages linked above on 23 Sep 2026. Platforms change these terms, so check the linked page before you rely on one.
How does the pay compare?Across Domain experts roles, not this role alone
From our own daily reads of every open listing on the platforms we follow, not from AfterQuery's posting. How we count.
Pay across the field: Domain experts
Across 692 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 18 platforms, the middle half pays $65 to $130 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $100. This role's top rate, $55, is in the bottom quarter. Of the 259 distinct rates we count, 41 are lower and 211 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Alignerr | 149 | $24 to $200 · median $80 |
| micro1 | 130 | $28 to $400 · median $110 |
| AfterQuery (this platform) | 87 | $45 to $175 · median $100 |
| Handshake AI | 79 | $30 to $300 · median $85 |
| Mercor | 78 | $55 to $450 · median $120 |
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This listing's history
- First seen here on 27 Aug 2026, and still on AfterQuery's list when we last read it on 12 Oct 2026.
- Listed pay changed on 29 Sep 2026: up to $70/hr before, $55/hr after.
- Listed pay changed on 28 Aug 2026: up to $120/hr before, up to $70/hr after.
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- Last seen live
- Listing ID
- 1763407072053
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