Best Remote Summer Jobs for Teachers in 2025

Looking for ideas of remote summer jobs for teachers? You’re in the right place.

After a long school year of commuting to your place of work every day – it would be nice to stay at home, and work out of your laptop from your backyard.

Whether you have young kids at home, crave the flexibility, or simply just don’t want to leave your house – there are plenty of reasons to prefer remote work, and there are also several remote summer job options for teachers.

As a (recently) former teacher who worked full time for 10 years in an elementary school, I craved remote work and spent a lot of time researching what kinds of remote jobs I could do.

It took me a few years to figure out how to make a living online. Ultimately, I chose to leave teaching and pursue remote self-employment as my full-time career.

The ideas below for remote summer jobs for teachers are flexible, and can be done part-time, full time, year-round or during the summer only.

Some can be teacher side hustles that you continue into the school year, or you can pick up where you left off with them next summer.

Let’s go over the details below, on remote summer jobs for teachers!

Best Remote Summer Jobs for Teachers

Some of these jobs are self-employment and some of them will involve being hired by a company remote only for the summer (which is rare, but possible.) Here are some ideas for remote summer jobs for teachers, and I hope you gain some inspiration from them

1. Freelance writer

There is a lot of work out there for people who are willing to write SEO-optimized content for bloggers, and larger online publishers.

Teachers generally have good attention to detail, and many other transferable skills that would make them decent writers.

Most teachers have to use writing in some capacities already for work. If you enjoy writing, then I would recommend learning the basics of SEO so that you can write blog posts for clients that have a chance of ranking on Google.

I am a full-time blogger and frequent many blogging communities. I see that there is a huge demand for freelance writers to help bloggers with their content production. I worked as a freelance blog post writer myself, before deciding to focus on my own blog(s) full time.

If doing freelance writing as a remote summer job interests you, then you will need to market your services on places like Fiverr, or even Facebook. I found clients on both platforms. Read my post on how to get started as a freelance writer.

2. Freelance editor

Similar to freelance writing, you can also get paid to edit work. Many of the larger bloggers and publications pay for an editor to carefully review their work.

You’re already a pro at reviewing written work for errors, and trust me – you can get paid for it.

Many content producers look for editors to polish their work by looking it over for spelling and grammar issues, repetitiveness, inconsistencies and overall improving the written communication.

Although AI tools like Grammarly exist (and you could use those as an editor) they don’t fully replace human editors who look at the big picture in a text and can help the writer make improvements at resonating with a human audience.

If you’re interested in offering services as an editor. Editors usually charge by the hour, and $25-$30 per hour is a common rate, especially if you have a background in English (or the language you’re editing in.)

Similar to writing, you can offer service as an editor on social media, Fiverr, or Upwork.

3. Make educational videos and sell them online

Teachers often use videos as a tool for the classroom – if you have basic video editing skills, you could make them too – and get paid for them.

This is a job where you might have to put in some heavy lifting before seeing any dimes – but doing that work in the summer while you’re off could generate some money coming in throughout the school year.

If you have basic video-making and editing skills (and I mean very basic – you could use Canva, like my husband does for his YouTube channel) then you could make educational videos or online courses, possibly even ones related to the subjects you teach.

I remember browsing YouTube for hours as a teacher trying to find the perfect relevant video to show my class. You could make videos that are geared to the classroom or online learning, or sell online courses in any subject that you’re an expert in.

You can make money from your videos or online courses by:

• uploading them to Udemy or Thinkific where people pay for them
• hosting a YouTube channel (you can monetize and make money from views after obtaining a certain number of subscribers, which generally takes several months.. but is quite lucrative once you get to that point.)

4. Remote Test Scorer

Another remote summer job for teachers is grading tests remotely. Having a background as a teacher is either a requirement or an asset for remote test scorers. Its a great way for teachers to earn some extra money from home during the summer.

A company called Pearson often hiring remote test scorers; and their Jobs page is worth checking out. Another one is ETS, with plenty (in-person and remote) summer test grading jobs.

A quick search on Google will bring up summer test scorer positions on Indeed as well. This is a good example of an education-related job that isn’t teaching.

4. Online tutor

Online tutoring is probably one of the best remote summer job for teachers. I’ve been tutoring adults ESL online for over 10 years, and I always focused more on it during the summer months when I wasn’t teaching.

Online tutoring has been a good job that allowed me to meet people all over the world, and work from home. I have always focused on language tutoring, but you can also tutor school subjects too.

As an online tutor, you could be self-employed, or being employed by a larger embassy. The tutor platforms that I’d recommend and have good things about are:

• italki – a language learning platform for all ages
• Outschool – teaching a variety of school subjects to school age children

For more detailed information about your tutoring options, read my post on how to start a tutoring business (which can be fully remote.)

Pro Tip: If you want to tutor ESL, don’t waste your time on any platforms before reading my post about the best and worst platforms to teach English online

5. Virtual Assistant

Business owners, especially those where a lot of their work is online based, often hire virtual assitants.

Virtual assistants (VAs) handle small details to take some of the load off the manager, such as responding to emails, making phone calls, scheduling bookings – although it largely varies on who you’re a virtual assistant for.

As a blogger for example, I know many other bloggers who hire VAs to do things format blog posts in WordPress, create Pinterest pins, and do some basic photo editing or graphic creation.

So, if you have basic technology skills, there is a lot of VA work out there. You can charge anywhere from $25 to $40 for you services, depending on what kinds of skills you bring to the table.

VA jobs can be found on Fiverr, Upwork, Facebook groups and even Indeed.

Good to Know: Most people hire a VA for ongoing (full or part time) work that can be done flexibly. If you want to stop working as a VA when school opens back up, just specify this in advance. Many businesses may be looking for extra help over the summer

6. Start a blog

Starting a blog may not be what you’re looking for in terms of a remote summer job for teachers, because you have to put in many hours before being paid.

However, if you start your blog as soon as the school year lets out and work your butt off all summer until its time to go back – then I believe its possible to have some passive money trickling in by the time you return to work.

This of course, isn’t a guarantee – how much you earn from a blog and when you start earning it will depend on your niche, and how popular it is.

I started earning money on my travel blog, Tiny Footsteps Travel, three months after starting it. So, I know that putting in a few hard months of work can make that possible.

You could maintain your blog as little or much as you want to during the school year.

Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is a branch of blogging, and where a fraction of the income comes from. Affiliate marketing is earning money from recommending products and services, and earning a commission. You can do this from a blog or website, or from social media.

If you want to start a blog, then you will need to include affiliate marketing to your plan in order to earn as much as you can. But, if you have a huge following on social media then thats a way to do it too (as you disclose that the links are affiliate links.)

7. Social Media Manager

Social media managers are what they sound like – managers of social media accounts. They manage social media accounts of businesses; by posting, reply to comments, answering DMS and maintaining the image of the business.

As a teacher, you already have good client relations and communication skills. These skills can be put to use through managing business social media accounts.

Reach out to local businesses – maybe you have a favourite bakery, restaurant or service that you think could use some help with their social media – and pitch some ideas.

Similar to a VA, most businesses hire social media managers for an ongoing basis. But, summer is a time when many take vacations and there may be some businesses in need of an extra set of hands.

Resources for Finding Remote Seasonal Work

When you start looking for online work, it can be overwhelming and intimidating with a lot of options, and not knowing which ones are truly viable.

While I can’t guarantee that you will find a remote seasonal position to do over the summer, I have done a lot of the ground work researching for you to find the best resources for finding remote work.

Here are some of the best online resources for remote summer jobs for teachers:

• WeWorkRemotely.com a resource for finding worldwide remote jobs
• Fiverr for offering freelance services
• Indeed which includes remote and seasonal positions as well as in person ones
• LinkedIn – you may want to create or edit your LinkedIn profile to reflect skills or a desire to find work in a field that you want to do remotely.
• Pearson, for remote seasonal work for educators
• Facebook Groups:
  Education Related Jobs for Ontario Teachers (if you’re from Ontario)
  Work From Home & Remote Jobs in Canada and Worldwide
  (In addition, search Facebook for groups related to your speciality or region)
  

My Advice on Working Remotely Over the Summer

I won’t lie – finding remote work can be very competitive, with more and more people wanting to stay and work from home.

It may be a bit harder to find seasonal remote paid positions than it is to work for yourself and start freelancing. The first one will pay you upon starting, whereas the second will mean you have to put in some heavy lifting before seeing the money trickle in.

You should absolutely check out the resources provided above and apply to the remote seasonal positions posted, however, I would recommend getting started on setting up your own remote business as a backup plan (such as an online tutor, editor, writer, or any of the ideas mentioned above.)

Your skills and expertise will determine further opportunities that you have available to you.

Final Thoughts on Remote Summer Jobs for Teachers

I hope that this article has shed some light on ideas of remote summer jobs for teachers that you could start doing from home at any time. Finding a flexible remote job has a lot of benefits, and the sky is the limit.

As a teacher, you have many skills that are ideal for remote work. You’re a trusted professional who knows how to use technologies, can communicate effectively, and has good attention to detail.

The best part is that a lot of the remote job ideas mentioned above are so flexible, that you can pick them up at any time you wanted to come back to them. They’re great for summers, for after retirement, or even as an alternative career in case you ever decided to leave teaching.

Regardless of what your goals are and what the future holds, I hope that you found some inspiring ideas here!