What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sketchup Tutor position at Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company?
About The Job
The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform has thousands of students looking for online Sketchup 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?
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.
The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform has thousands of students looking for online Sketchup 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.
- Advanced Subject Mastery: Deep knowledge of SketchUp 3D modeling including push-pull operations, follow me tool, groups and components, materials, shadows, scenes, layout for construction documentation, and rendering plugins. Ability to explain inference system, component organization, and presentation techniques while preparing students for architectural design, interior design, landscape architecture, and construction visualization.
- Conceptual Teaching & Problem-Solving: Skilled at teaching intuitive 3D modeling, space planning, and presentation creation in SketchUp. Guides students through constructing building models, applying materials and textures, organizing geometry with groups and components, creating scenes for walkthroughs, and exporting to Layout for dimensioned drawings. Emphasizes rapid design visualization and connects SketchUp to architecture, interior design, woodworking, and real estate presentation applications.
- Curriculum Awareness & Adaptive Instruction: Familiar with SketchUp curricula and common challenges such as understanding the inference system, managing group and component hierarchy, and achieving accurate dimensions. Adapts instruction using progressive modeling exercises, real-world building projects, and presentation workflow tutorials to support students from SketchUp beginners through advanced users creating professional architectural and design visualizations.
- 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.
- 1-on-1 Online Tutoring - Provide personalized instruction to individual students.
- Instant Tutoring - Accept on-demand tutoring requests whenever you're available.
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.