Teach biology online in English

Biology asks students to think on two scales at once. A question about a runner's burning legs leads straight to what is happening inside a single muscle cell, and a question about a lake turning green ends with fertiliser, algae and oxygen running out near the bottom. Students who struggle with biology are rarely short of facts. They know the names of the organelles and the stages of mitosis, but they cannot yet explain why the contents of a plant cell pull away from its wall in salty water, or why changing a single base in DNA can stop a protein from working.

That gap between knowing the words and understanding the mechanism is where a tutor earns their place. A good tutor links structure to function, draws each process out step by step, and asks the student to explain it back until the explanation holds together without notes.

Why we are looking for biology tutors who teach in English

Clasora shows students the tutors who teach in the language they use the site in. Someone reading Clasora in English is shown tutors who teach in English, so if English is the language you teach biology in, those are the students who find you.

In biology, a lot of the marks depend on wording. Markers look for precise terms: osmosis needs a partially permeable membrane, an enzyme is “denatured” rather than killed, and a gene and an allele are not the same thing. Students often lose marks for loose wording rather than wrong ideas, and a tutor who uses the same terms as their lessons and textbooks can fix that directly.

Clasora does not employ tutors, and this is an opening rather than a job. You work independently: you set your own prices and hours, and you teach as much or as little as you like. You can keep it to a few evenings a week as a side income, or teach enough hours for it to stand in for a job.

What teaching biology online on Clasora looks like

This opening is fully remote. Every lesson takes place online, and you teach from wherever you live.

Students book from your calendar. They see only the times you have marked as free, shown in their own time zone. You decide how much notice you need, how far ahead people can book and which days you take off.

Lessons run in the browser, and neither of you installs anything. Biology is a visual subject, so screen sharing does much of the work. You might trace the path of blood through a diagram of the heart, or build the nitrogen cycle on a whiteboard app one arrow at a time while the student tells you what comes next. A tablet and stylus make it easy to sketch a cell, and a webcam pointed at paper works too. An animation of mitosis or a 3D model of a protein shows movement that a textbook page cannot. A shared document suits a lab report, where you comment on the wording line by line. The in-call chat is handy for spelling out a term, and background blur keeps your room private.

Between lessons, each student has a conversation with you. They can send a photo of a diagram they have labelled, and you can reply with corrections or a few practice questions. Messages, files and shared links sit next to the sessions they belong to, so weeks later the genetics problem you solved together is still there. Your own worksheets can live in your personal file area, and documents can come across from Google Drive. If you plan your week in Google Calendar, it can sync with your Clasora calendar.

What students usually want help with

Cells: organelles, the differences between plant, animal and bacterial cells, and how substances cross membranes by diffusion, osmosis and active transport.

Enzymes and biological molecules: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids, and why temperature and pH change how fast an enzyme works.

Photosynthesis and respiration: what goes in, what comes out, where each stage happens and how the two connect.

Genetics: dominant and recessive alleles, Punnett squares, family pedigrees and the probability behind them.

DNA and protein synthesis: replication, transcription and translation, and what a mutation does to a protein.

Cell division: why mitosis produces identical cells and meiosis does not.

The human body: circulation, digestion, nerves and hormones, immunity, and how the body keeps blood glucose steady.

Evolution and ecology: natural selection, food webs, energy transfer and the carbon and nitrogen cycles.

Experiments and data: planning a fair test, choosing a control and reading a graph.

Written answers: describing a process in the right order with the right terms.

Preparing for a test or an exam: revising in manageable pieces and practising questions against the clock.

Biology within other degrees: students of medicine, nursing, pharmacy or veterinary science facing biochemistry, physiology or cell biology.

Who we are looking for

You know the areas of biology you offer well enough to explain a process from start to finish and to spot where a student's understanding breaks down.

You explain clearly in English and use the correct terms without burying the student in them.

You can turn a process into a simple diagram, by hand or on screen.

You might teach science already, hold a degree in biology, biochemistry or medicine, be studying one of these, or work with living things every day in a lab or a hospital.

You have a computer with a camera, a microphone and a steady internet connection. A tablet with a stylus, or a camera you can point at paper, makes drawing easier.

You are 18 or older.

Teaching experience helps, but it is not required.

What you get

No commission. Clasora takes nothing from the price you set.

Free to join and to publish. There is no subscription and no listing fee.

Your own prices. You set a price for each session length, and you can offer a free first session.

Your own hours. You choose your weekly hours, your days off, the notice you need and how far ahead students can book.

A public listing page. Your listing is a page of its own that search engines can find, shown in the language each visitor reads, with your photo, an intro video, what you teach, the languages you speak and your price for each session length.

Reviews on what matters. Students rate you on knowledge, clarity and engagement.

Checked qualifications. You can add your qualifications to your profile, and a moderator checks them.

Lessons in the browser. Video with screen sharing, background blur and an in-call chat, with nothing for you or your students to install.

How to start

Create an account with the button on this page.

Publish a listing for biology.

Open your calendar and mark the hours you are free.

It takes a few minutes. You accept the terms when you become a tutor, and a moderator checks your listing before it goes live.

Questions tutors ask

Do I need a biology degree or a teaching qualification?

No. You need a solid command of the biology you offer and the ability to explain it clearly. If you do hold a degree or a teaching qualification, add it to your profile and a moderator will check it.

Can I teach just one area, such as genetics or human physiology?

Yes. Your listing says what you teach, so you can offer the whole subject or only the parts you know best.

I am studying medicine. Can I tutor biology?

Yes, if you are 18 or older and know the material well. Say in your listing which areas you cover.

How do I draw diagrams in an online lesson?

Share your screen. A whiteboard app with a tablet and stylus works well, and so does a webcam pointed at paper. Students can send photos of their own diagrams in your conversation.

How do I get paid?

Card payments are not switched on yet. For now a booking is confirmed without a card, and you and the student settle payment directly between you. Clasora takes no commission on what you charge.