DD is Chem major. She would like to work part time remotely by tutoring AP Chem, and Organic Chem 1 and 2. What platforms are best for college students to do it? She is not interested to work for minimum wage (her college tutoring service.) Is there a way to advertise privately and be self-employed? She has 1 year experience tutoring.
My D got her private tutoring gigs through her professors and word of mouth. She tutored the middle and high school age children of profs for three years and made really nice money. She also worked as a course grader for o chem and was asked to TA. She turned down the TA position so I can’t comment on that salary, but the course grader salary was well above minimum wage. All the tutoring was remote.
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My daughter also tutored her profs kids and got other tutoring jobs through her profs.
She also assisted in one of her science classes for credit and ended up doing some tutoring.
I would reach out to profs as well as local high schools.
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In my area (urban, Northeast) the big money now is “face to face”. Anyone can provide Zoom tutoring-- and prices are all over the map- but parents pay a premium for someone to sit with their kid and patiently review every mistake, with eye contact, and “do you want to try another problem?”.
My local public library branch has just installed a few “sound proof booths” which seat two or three people around a small table, specifically for tutoring!!! You can reserve an hour at a time, and the waiting list for cancellations grows every week as more and more people become aware of this option. No need for a noisy Starbucks, or meeting in the kid’s home (not very popular) or the online option which for many HS kids is a last resort. Just head to the public library and meet the tutor there!
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DD tutored local kid remotely very successfully but she got that option through mutual friends.
Area where is her college located has minimum wage almost 1/2 of our local ones…Since she is in small LAC professor’s kids do not need tutors.
Is there a private or parochial school near campus? I’d start there.
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Not really. It is depressed neighborhood outside of campus…
D2 got private tutoring gigs by placing flyers at the hospital/med school where she worked and the nearby college campus. She tutored math, biology, chemistry, physics. Mostly math, though. Once she’d had a few clients, word spread and she was in demand. Her posted hourly rate was $25/hour. (2014 dollars)
For one client, she was paid $100/hour. (High functioning autistic middler schooler failing math) She did more than just help with math concepts. She set up study and homework schedules, supervised his math homework. She even met with his teacher once at the request of his parents.
For college and high school students she usually met in a public place on campus. With her middle school students–she went to their home.
She had way more high school students than college students as clients, but the parents are usually happy to pay for private tutors. A lot of her clients were kids of the doctors at the hospital where she worked.
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I am not sure I understand this.
Can she ask her profs for general advice?
We have a lot of “teacher tutors” here that get a LOT of money. They go to the home or meet at the library.
HS kids/parents often look for tutors. I would start there- not sure how much she could charge.
Some of the professor’s kids do not need tutors.
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If she is looking for remote work can she contact the HS she graduated from and let them know she is available?
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We considered this one as an option.
But I was looking for recommendations of websites, forums etc. So far got none…
Are there any local/off campus tutoring centers she can contact?
There are online websites but I don’t know anybody who has used them.
Has she tried reddit?
R/tutor allows users to post tutoring availability
Or maybe try posting a few sample tutoring sessions on Instagram to attract clients.
D2 did use an online site to list her services, but it was specific to her location in MI.
I was going to say there is HUGE market for MCAT tutoring—but your daughter hasn’t taken her MCAT yet. Kaplan, Princeton Review, etc hire high scoring students to do in-person and/or online/on demand tutoring. They make up to $100/hour
Also, has she been involved in any peer-to-peer tutoring at her college? Maybe even doing it free. (Free because they have a student tutoring center that’s free to students.) It will give her current references and increase her teaching experience.
D2 TAed calc1, 2, 3 and linear algebra for 3 years, biochem for 1 year; was the official math & science tutor for the NROTC program at her school ( she got to supervise “math night” at the mandatory cadet study table); she also co-ran a [mandatory] seminar for first year TAs about how to develop appropriate educational goals/learning outcomes, how to structure a class and how to deal w/ the fact that individuals all learn differently so what works for some students doesn’t work for others by planning multiple approaches to the material.
Her prior experience teaching really helped getting tutoring jobs later on.
And one more suggestion—you said there are no nearby public of private schools near her campus. What abut if she expanded her service area? Not immediately next to college, but along a bus route she could take?
Most high school kids (well, their parents anyway and they get final say since they’re paying) strongly prefer in-person tutoring
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And the teachers of HS students who are struggling STRONGLY recommend face to face tutoring. These kids have already had a few one on one sessions with the teacher or a peer tutor, watched Khan Academy, done extra studying before tests and quizzes on their own or online.
The end of the road is a patient tutor who will sit elbow to elbow and correct in real time “No, that’s not the numerator for this formula” or “let’s review this again before you tackle the problem on your own”.
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One more idea.
Has your daughter gone to any of the Memphis-specific Facebook groups and posted her tutoring availability there?
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BTW that technically can be done online if student and instructor know how to use technology. That what DD last year did with one HS senior very successfully.
They went all over particular assignments and quizzes that a student had trouble with.
Hopefully she would never need MCAT (she is not required to take it), but she passed with flying colors national Org1/Org2 exam that is used acrossed many schools.
If she tells her profs that she wants to tutor, maybe she will get referrals.
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