Employment Contract for Assistant Tutors and Instructors

What a good one includes

• A detailed description of teaching duties, prep work, and administrative expectations like logging hours or communicating with parents.
• Clear terms on hourly rates, payment schedules, and whether prep time or grading is compensated at the same rate.
• Explicit rules regarding shifts, late-canceling students, and how tutors are paid if a client fails to show up.
• A robust clause stating that all lesson plans, worksheets, and teaching materials created during employment belong to your business.
• Restrictions that prevent tutors from poaching your clients or starting a competing private tutoring service with your student base.
• The formal process and notice period required by either party to end the employment relationship smoothly.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Misclassifying assistant tutors as independent contractors when they are actually employees under local labor laws.
• Failing to define who owns the lesson plans, worksheets, and resources developed by the instructor during their employment.
• Neglecting to write down a clear policy for how tutors are compensated when a student cancels a session last minute.
• Forgetting to include non-solicitation clauses that prevent tutors from taking your hard-earned clients private.

Frequently asked questions