- What subjects do you tutor?
- What workshops do you offer?
- Where do you tutor?
- What are your hourly rates?
- Why Tutorpedia?
- What is Academic Coaching?
- What are your Tutors' qualifications?
- How do I get started?
1. What subjects do you tutor?
We tutor all academic subjects at all grade levels and at all abilities, and can help students prepare for all standardized tests. We also offer workshops for a variety of extracurricular topics. If you want to learn it, we probably teach it! Feel free to check with us if you have any questions.
Here are the most popular subjects that we tutor, by content area:
| Test Preparation | |
|---|---|
| PSAT, SAT I & II, ACT | Required for admission to most 4-year colleges |
| SSAT, ISSE, HSPT | Secondary School Admissions Test, Independent School Entrance Exam, High School Placement Test (Required for admission to most private high schools, see individual school for details) |
| CAHSEE, CST, STAR | California High School Exit Exam (Required for graduation from public high schools) and STAR tests |
| GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT | Entrance exams for graduate school, law school, medical school, business school, and other postbaccalaureate programs |
2. What workshops do you offer?
Tutorpedia has a wide array of enriching small group project-based learning experiences, what we are calling workshops. Our workshops are designed to be fun and engaging, but also to build essential skills that you can use to help you in school, work, and life. Every workshop culminates in a final project or performance that you’ll be able to share with peers, parents, friends, and the world. We have topics in all major content areas (English, Math, Science, Social Studies, World Language), but also have workshops in the visual and performing arts, test preparation, and others that just can't be confined to simple categories. We hope you'll take the time to browse our collection of workshops. You can find them here.
3. Where do you tutor?
We believe that tutoring should work around your needs, so we will find a way to hold tutoring sessions wherever you want! Typically, tutoring takes place in your home. If you'd feel more comfortable at school or a public library, that can be arranged as well. Our tutors live and work all over the Bay Area, so it's really no problem for us to work within the parameters that you specify. We always arrange a time and place that works for your schedule, which can include evenings and weekends.
4. What are your hourly rates?
Our standard rates can be found here.
5. Why Tutorpedia?
Working with Tutorpedia solves all of your academic needs. For your child struggling in a particular class, we offer academic, subject-specific tutoring, including homework instruction, organizational strategies, and study skills. For your middle school child preparing for high school, we offer ISEE, HSPT, and SSAT preparation. For your high school junior or senior preparing for college, we offer customized, individual SAT and ACT test preparation. We also offer CAHSEE test preparation for public school students. For your college-age child, we offer guidance and mentoring with course selection, college counseling, and essay consulting.
When you work with Tutorpedia tutors, you can rest assured that you will be working with exceptional individuals who have succeeded at the highest academic level, who have experience teaching and tutoring, and who care deeply about education and the success of their students. Both you and your students will be able to access expert knowledge, innovative expertise in teaching, years of accumulated experience, and easy online access to all such resources.
Our work with students centers on the question: what have you ever wanted to learn? It is our goal to help students answer this essential question by helping them learn what they want, how they want. Tutorpedia’s philosophy, what we call The Tao of Tutorpedia, rests on three pillars: Collaborative Relationships, Innovative Expertise, and Holistic Vision. This philosophy has been crafted by Tutorpedia's Directors, both career educators with 30+ years of combined teaching experience and graduates of Harvard, Stanford, and Brown.
6. What is Academic Coaching?
Academic Coaching is our way of explaining how our tutors do more than just help students with homework. We prepare, support, and mentor our students through their most challenging classes and academic decisions. In this capacity, our tutors improve student's confidence, strengthen their study and organizational skills, and increase their overall academic achievement. This is only part of our holistic vision of what learning and education should be.
7. What are your tutors' qualifications?
All of our tutors are hired after meeting a rigorous set of criteria: all tutors are graduates from top-tier universities (or current college students at Stanford or UC Berkeley), and have teaching and tutoring experience under their belt before coming aboard. We also run thorough background checks on each of our tutors. Our tutors have plenty of knowledge and experience to draw upon when it comes to coaching our students through their school years and preparing them for college. Our tutors are also exceptionally qualified to teach. At last count, 27 of our tutors are or have been full time classroom teachers, 22 of our tutors have earned teaching credentials (four of whom hold Special Ed credentials), and five tutors on staff are currently working towards their Masters in Education and teaching credentials. Our ranks include graduates from Stanford's Teacher Education Program (STEP), Teach For America, and Fulbright scholars who have taught internationally. All in all, our tutors are a very impressive group! We hope you'll take some time to browse our tutors' individual profiles and learn more.
8. How do I get started?
You can get started now! Go to the “Find a Tutor” search function at the top of the page, and search for a tutor to match your specific needs. Select what subject, city, day and time is best for you, browse the results, and meet your tutor! You can schedule a session online, or email a tutor for more information. You can always contact Seth or David, Tutorpedia’s Directors, at 415-948-1585, email them at info@tutorpedia.com, or use our online contact form to get in touch.
