Online tutoring

Nc789123 · 2024-10-01T21:37:01+00:00

I would like to offer online tutoring to make some extra money. Does tutorful or tutor hunt provide teaching materials or do you need to create these yourself?

BiologyandChemistryTutor · 01/10/2024 22:43

You'll need to provide all the teaching materials yourself.

Don't forget if you're full-time in another profession eg teaching you'll also need to register as self-employed and declare any extra income from it as you will be over the tax threshold. You'll also need professional indemnity insurance (not a legal requirement, but highly recommended).

You'll also need to tweak your resources for differences between exam boards (I am often teaching 3-5 different exam boards at any one time and I consider it part of my job to know the differences between the different boards and to be able to advise students accordingly).

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Nc789123 · 02/10/2024 20:10

BiologyandChemistryTutor · 01/10/2024 22:43

You'll need to provide all the teaching materials yourself.

Don't forget if you're full-time in another profession eg teaching you'll also need to register as self-employed and declare any extra income from it as you will be over the tax threshold. You'll also need professional indemnity insurance (not a legal requirement, but highly recommended).

You'll also need to tweak your resources for differences between exam boards (I am often teaching 3-5 different exam boards at any one time and I consider it part of my job to know the differences between the different boards and to be able to advise students accordingly).

Thanks, iv found a few sites that provide resources but wasn't sure if those ones do - do you know?

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BiologyandChemistryTutor · 03/10/2024 06:51

No they don't, though other tutors may submit resources which boosts their profile on the site. Tutorhunt (and I think Tutorful) require all booking to be done via their site and they take commission on every lesson, which either means the student pays more for the same lesson in order for the tutor to receive their normal fee, or the tutor has to accept being paid less.

All online lessons have to be done via their interface too. For these reasons I stopped using these sites some years ago.

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Nc789123 · 03/10/2024 10:18

BiologyandChemistryTutor · 03/10/2024 06:51

No they don't, though other tutors may submit resources which boosts their profile on the site. Tutorhunt (and I think Tutorful) require all booking to be done via their site and they take commission on every lesson, which either means the student pays more for the same lesson in order for the tutor to receive their normal fee, or the tutor has to accept being paid less.

All online lessons have to be done via their interface too. For these reasons I stopped using these sites some years ago.

Thanks, that's really helpful. I'm going to go with first tutor

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Onemoreterm · 04/10/2024 15:29

No agency provides resources.

if you are doing primary be careful as lots of parents will already have WH Smith/Amazon books and teachers use TWINKL.

if secondary then school now issue the revision books or staff will use them for in-class activities or homework.

And the same with the big resource providers. Nothing worse than a student saying we have done this already.

I have made my own bank of resources - just in case. It is easy to do against spec so I can cover AQA, Edexcel and IB easily

Onemoreterm · 04/10/2024 15:30

Yep I noticed how some colleagues upped their fees just to cover the Tutorhunt charges