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Job Description
About The Job: PE – Civil – Structural Tutor
The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform is seeking passionate and knowledgeable tutors for online PE – Civil – Structural subjects. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on students’ academic success and understanding, all while enjoying the flexibility of setting your own schedule and earning competitive rates from the comfort of your home.
Why Join Our Platform?
- Competitive Earning Potential: Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, with rates reaching up to $40/hour.
- Flexible Payments: Get paid up to twice per week, ensuring fast and reliable compensation for your tutoring sessions.
- Work-Life Balance: Set your own hours and tutor as much or as little as you desire.
- Remote Work: Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform; no commuting required.
- Student Matching: Get matched with students best-suited to your teaching style and expertise.
- AI-Powered Support: Utilize our AI-powered Tutor Copilot for real-time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features, saving you prep time.
- Hassle-Free Logistics: We handle all payment logistics; you just invoice for your tutoring sessions.
What We Look For In a PE – Civil – Structural Tutor
- Advanced Test Mastery:
- Deep knowledge of PE Civil Structural examination content, including structural analysis, steel design, concrete design, wood design, masonry, seismic design, and structural engineering codes (e.g., ACI 318, AISC 360, ASCE 7).
- Ability to clearly explain load combinations, member design, and connection detailing.
- Expertise in preparing civil engineers for the structural depth portion of the PE Civil examination.
- Strategic Test-Taking & Problem-Solving:
- Skilled at teaching structural member design, load analysis, and efficient navigation of code references for the PE Civil Structural examination.
- Ability to guide students through designing beams, columns, and connections in steel and concrete, calculating lateral forces, and applying building code provisions.
- Emphasis on efficient use of design manuals and reference codes under timed examination conditions, connecting theoretical knowledge to practical structural design.
- Curriculum Awareness & Adaptive Instruction:
- Familiarity with the PE Civil Structural depth examination and common challenges, such as navigating multiple design codes simultaneously, performing seismic analysis calculations, and managing time across complex design problems.
- Ability to adapt instruction using NCEES practice examinations, code reference exercises, and structural design problems to support PE candidates.
- Effective Teaching Methods:
- Ability to identify concepts students commonly struggle with.
- Proficiency in explaining material using multiple approaches and adapting instruction to meet individual learning needs and styles.
- Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style.
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 revolutionize learning through advanced technology, AI, and learning science, creating personalized educational experiences. Our 1-on-1 Online Tutoring platform connects students with the right tutors, fostering customized instruction that helps achieve learning goals, 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.