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About the Job The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform has thousands of students looking for online Academic Coaching tutors nationally. As a tutor on the Varsity Tutors Platform, you'll have the ...

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Academic Coaching Tutor

Varsity Tutors

Columbus, OH • Remote

$18 - $40/hr

Part-time

Re-posted 2 days ago


Varsity Tutors rating

5.7

Company rating: 5.7 out of 10

Based on 16 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

14th of 23 rated private schools and tutoring


Job description

About the Job
The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform has thousands of students looking for online Academic Coaching tutors nationally. As a tutor on the Varsity Tutors Platform, you'll have the flexibility to set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and make a real impact on students' academic success and understanding. All from the comfort of your home.
Why Join Our Platform?
  • Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, reaching up to $40/hour.
  • Get paid up to twice per week, ensuring fast and reliable compensation for the tutoring sessions you conduct and invoice.
  • Set your own hours and tutor as much as you'd like.
  • Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform. No commuting required.
  • Get matched with students best-suited to your teaching style and expertise.
  • Our AI-powered Tutor Copilot enhances your sessions with real-time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features, helping you save prep time and focus on impactful teaching.
  • We handle the logistics—you just invoice for your tutoring sessions, and we take care of payments.

What We Look For In a Academic Coaching Tutor
  • Advanced Subject Mastery: Deep knowledge of academic planning, goal setting, time management, study strategies, college preparation, learning style assessment, motivation techniques, and academic self-advocacy. Ability to explain growth mindset principles, metacognitive strategies, and academic pathway planning while preparing students to become independent, self-directed learners across all academic disciplines and educational transitions.
  • Conceptual Teaching & Problem-Solving: Skilled at teaching self-regulation strategies, academic planning, and student-driven goal achievement. Guides students through identifying academic strengths and challenges, creating actionable study plans, building organizational systems, navigating course selection, and developing self-advocacy skills for communicating with teachers and professors. Emphasizes building intrinsic motivation and connects academic coaching to college readiness and career exploration.
  • Curriculum Awareness & Adaptive Instruction: Familiar with academic coaching methodologies and common challenges such as lack of motivation, difficulty transitioning between school levels, and underdeveloped self-advocacy skills. Adapts instruction using goal-setting frameworks, accountability structures, and strength-based conversation techniques to support students from middle school through college building the metacognitive and organizational skills for sustained academic success.
  • Effective Teaching Methods: Ability to identify concepts students commonly struggle with, explain material using multiple approaches, and adapt instruction to meet individual learning needs and styles.
  • Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style.
  • Ability to adapt to different learning styles and student needs.

Ways To Connect With Students
  • 1-on-1 Online Tutoring - Provide personalized instruction to individual students.
  • Instant Tutoring - Accept on-demand tutoring requests whenever you're available.

About Varsity Tutors And 1-on-1 Online Tutoring
Our mission is to transform the way people learn by leveraging advanced technology, AI, and the latest in learning science to create personalized learning experiences. Through 1-on-1 Online Tutoring, students receive customized instruction that helps them achieve their learning goals. Our platform is designed to match students with the right tutors, fostering better outcomes and a passion for learning.
Please note: Varsity Tutors does not contract in: Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia or Puerto Rico.

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