Online Tutoring

Earn $30k to $70k as A Math Tutor Part Time

One of the best practices for online tutoring is to get a gooseneck and instruct your clients to purchase a gooseneck as well on Amazon. They are like $8. That gets some compliance out of them and makes them feel more invested in doing tutoring with you. It's also just a good thing to have. It clips onto your desk and holds your smartphone, so you can easily record the surface of your desk. When your clients use these, you're able to see their desk. You can have them print out a worksheet and work on it. And you can watch what they're doing. It’s like you’re looking over their shoulder.

It's more as if you're there in person, standing beside them and seeing the work as they do it. And you can say, “That's not how it's done. This is what we need to do.”

I also really like the iPad and the Apple Pencil. I think it's probably worth purchasing at some point if you do online tutoring. You could write that off as business expense if you're using it primarily for work too. However, you can also set up your own gooseneck and record yourself working out solutions. That's about a $8 solution. But the Apple Pencil and iPad are nice. Then you can do a Zoom call and share your screen and you don't even have to be on video. You can watch them writing and solving problems and screen share a whiteboard. That way you can be a little more relaxed, kick your feet up on the desk, and hang back sipping coffee, watching Netflix on the other screen.

I've also seen one of our excellent math tutors use a Doc Cam. Remember your eighth grade teacher using one of those? It takes a video from above while you write on documents. Of course, you can also do that with a gooseneck. Again, the $8 solution is nice just to get going, and then you can upgrade things later as you start to make money.