There's a version of history class where students copy dates off a slide, and another where they end up arguing about whether a decision was actually justified once class is over. Same material, roughly. Completely different class. We're hiring for the second one.
This is a remote teaching position covering humanities subjects. Some sessions are live; some are recorded for students working on their own time; and a fair number of students mix both, depending on their week. Either way, the point isn't getting through the material. It's about getting students to actually think about it, beyond just memorizing something for a test they'll forget by June.
If you've taught this kind of material before and gotten a class genuinely invested in a text or an idea, even once, you already know the difference between a room that's participating and a room that's waiting for class to end. That difference is basically the job.
What You'd Be Doing
Planning and teaching lessons is the obvious part. The harder part is building discussions that work over video, where half the room has their camera off, and nobody wants to go first. Getting quiet students to talk and keeping the ones who dominate from steamrolling everyone else matters more here than most people expect going in, and it's not really something a lesson plan template can teach you.
You'll grade essays and written work too, with feedback students can actually use instead of a grade and a shrug. Assignments should test whether someone can build an argument, not just recall a name or a date from the reading. There's also the less glamorous stuff: talking with parents about how a student's doing, and keeping pace roughly aligned with other teachers so nobody falls behind switching classes.
Weekly Responsibilities
- Plan and teach live or recorded lessons in your subject area
- Build discussion prompts that pull quiet students into the conversation
- Grade essays and written assignments with feedback that's specific
- Notice when a student's slipping and step in before it becomes a bigger problem
- Talk with parents or guardians about performance when it comes up
- Keep lesson material current instead of running the same slides for years
- Stay roughly in sync with other teachers on pacing
What We're Looking For
You need a
Bachelor's degree in a humanities field, or education with a humanities focus. And at least
2 years of teaching experience, in a classroom or already online. If you've only ever taught in person, that's fine. Plenty of our teachers made that jump, and it went well, though it does take a few weeks to adjust to reading a class through a grid of small video windows instead of a room.
Here's what we actually watch for in an interview, though. Can you take a discussion that's dying and bring it back without just talking over everyone yourself? That's rarer than it sounds on paper, and it matters more than subject knowledge or years of experience. We've turned down candidates with impressive credentials because their sample lesson was a monologue with no room for a student to disagree.
- Bachelor's degree, at minimum, in a humanities discipline or education
- Two or more years teaching, in person or online
- Comfortable running discussion over video, not just lecturing at a screen
- Solid grading and feedback habits, particularly on written work
- Can hold a class's pace and energy without a rigid script
- Stable internet and a space quiet enough for live teaching
Bonus Points For
- A teaching certification or credential in your subject
- A Master's degree in humanities, education, or something adjacent
- Time already spent teaching in an online or hybrid school
- Having built curriculum yourself, not just taught someone else's
- A second subject you could pick up if scheduling needs it
Salary and Benefits
The role pays $65,000 a year, with room to move as you take on more responsibility. Beyond salary:
- Health insurance
- Retirement plan with an employer contribution
- Yearly budget for professional development and certifications
- Flexible scheduling built around your live sessions
- Paid time off, school holidays included
- A stipend for home office setup
Life on This Team
You'd be one of several humanities teachers spread across grade levels, reporting to the same academic coordinator. If a lesson isn't clicking with a group, it gets talked about, not quietly pushed through for a whole semester, hoping it fixes itself. Roles like this tend to fill fast once they're posted on Naukri Mitra, so don't wait too long if it looks like a fit for where you're at right now.
Real autonomy comes with the job. You decide how to run a unit, not just what gets covered by the end. Spend an extra week on something that's landing, or cut a dead unit short, without first asking three people for permission. You're not entirely on your own, though. New teachers get paired with a mentor for the first month, mainly so they don't have to figure out the platform quirks and scheduling system on their own while also trying to teach.
A class that bombs and gets reworked is fine. A class that bombs quietly, week after week, because nobody said anything, is the actual problem. Students pick up on the difference even when they can't say exactly why one class feels alive, and another one drags. The teachers who have been here the longest tend to treat a rough week as information, not a personal failure, and adjust from there instead of dwelling on it.
How to Apply
Send a resume and a short note about your subject area and how you teach. A sample lesson plan helps. A short clip of yourself teaching helps even more, honestly, more than a formal cover letter would, since it's the closest thing we get to sitting in on your class before we've even met. Applications are reviewed as they come in, and we reach out directly to people who appear to be a strong match, usually within a couple of weeks.
