How To Become a Biology Tutor?

A private tutor helps their students learn basic biology concepts like 'what is biology?' to support a student throughout a complete school year biology course. Students will usually require help covering additional support concepts including math, science, physics, and more. No matter what subdiscipline of biology you are teaching a private tutor is expected to be well-rounded to ensure they can support the entire student's learning needs.

The costs of biology tutors vary because they set their pay rates and time schedules. The industry average biology tutor hourly pay is $28/hr. All tutors have the flexibility and freedom to set their rates to get paid what they think is fair. Often new tutors will set rates lower to help start building out their clientele and gain a few positive reviews to stand out. Becoming a great tutor takes time, but well worth it as it's an opportunity to earn enough as a full-time wage or become a great source for a supplemental income, the choice and freedom are completely yours. Spend the time to learn what other tutors are charging in your area, based upon their experience and education levels.

If you have a passion for teaching others and love biology, becoming a tutor is easy. At a minimum, you will need a high school degree or diploma to start teaching kindergarten and middle school grade levels. You may need a degree in a specialist subject for higher-level biology courses depending on the level you plan to teach.

Although only 10% of our tutors who submit an application make it through our selection process, we encourage everyone to apply. You will find that 60% of our biology tutors have a bachelor’s degree, and about 5% have a master’s degree. We recommend that our biology tutors have a high school degree to start teaching kindergarten and middle school grade levels. For higher-level biology courses, you should have a university or college degree. Lastly, some of our tutors help with specialized topics; therefore, taking that specialization and scoring a mark over 80% usually sets you up for success.

With TutorOcean, we make teaching biology online easy. We provide all our qualified tutors with a free online virtual learning platform. Our tutoring toolkit includes chat, video conferencing, and most importantly a collaborative whiteboard where images, concepts, files, and so much more can easily be shared and worked on collaboratively to make fully remote online tutoring possible. 

For high school biology tutor jobs, we often have an undergraduate student help teach general biology. For university school biology tutor jobs, we recommend having at least excelled in the biology course you are teaching. A peer tutor is sometimes preferred by certain students as they prefer to learn from someone who has recently gone through the course. While other students prefer a more experienced tutor for their academic support needs including those with more tutoring experience. Also be prepared to help a student learn other key areas to support their biology learning needs including math, science, chemistry, and physics. Don't be surprised if your tutoring session also includes some writing tutoring to help a tutee learn key skills such as how to present their answers for chemistry class or how to better prepare for your biology exam.