Part-time tutor jobs for UPSI students in Tanjong Malim: put your Bachelor of Education training to work with school learners in Behrang, Proton City and Slim River, or online. Mathematics, science, English and SPM subjects lead the requests from learners around both campuses.
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UPSI grew from Sultan Idris Training College, opened in 1922, so pedagogy sits at the centre of every programme here.
Kampus Sultan Abdul Jalil Shah in town and Kampus Sultan Azlan Shah in Proton City each sit beside schools with learners.
Mid-semester breaks in November and April and the ten-week long break from July give room for extra lessons or online learners.
These subjects match UPSI's sciences, mathematics and language faculties, and the SPM and primary syllabuses taught at schools around Tanjong Malim.
Tahun 1 to Tingkatan 6 路 RM50鈥揜M150/hr
Tahun 1 to Tingkatan 6 路 RM50鈥揜M150/hr
Tahun 1 to Tingkatan 3 (KSSR + KSSM) 路 RM50鈥揜M140/hr
Tingkatan 4 to Tingkatan 6 (SPM + STPM) 路 RM60鈥揜M170/hr
Tingkatan 4 to Tingkatan 6 (SPM + STPM) 路 RM60鈥揜M170/hr
Tingkatan 4 to Tingkatan 6 (SPM + STPM) 路 RM60鈥揜M160/hr
Tahun 5-6 路 RM40鈥揜M100/hr
Tingkatan 4-5 路 RM60鈥揜M160/hr
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Edustar pairs you with learners in Tanjong Malim, Behrang or Proton City by subject.
Teach in Tanjong Malim, Behrang or Proton City homes, or online, fitted around lectures.
Studying elsewhere in Malaysia? These campuses also have Edustar tutoring openings.
UM 路 Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur
UKM 路 Bangi, Selangor
USM 路 Minden / Gelugor, Pulau Pinang
UPM 路 Serdang, Selangor
UTM 路 Skudai, Johor Bahru
UiTM 路 Shah Alam, Selangor
IIUM 路 Gombak, Selangor
Taylor's 路 Subang Jaya, Selangor
Sunway University 路 Bandar Sunway, Selangor
Monash Malaysia 路 Bandar Sunway, Selangor
MMU 路 Cyberjaya, Selangor
UNIMAS 路 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak
UMS 路 Sepanggar, Sabah
UNITEN 路 Kajang, Selangor
UMT 路 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu
UMK 路 Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan
Nottingham Malaysia 路 Semenyih, Selangor
Towns near UPSI: Tanjong Malim, Behrang, Proton City, Slim River and Kuala Kubu Bharu.
Students in the Faculty of Science and Mathematics arrive with exactly what SPM candidates around Tanjong Malim ask for most. A Bachelor of Education in Chemistry or Biology lines up with Form 4 and Form 5 Kimia and Biologi, and a Physics programme carries straight into Fizik, where KSSM mechanics and electricity chapters fill a large share of weekly requests.
Mathematics education students cover two lanes at once. Secondary learners want Mathematics and Additional Mathematics practice, and upper-primary pupils need patient work on fractions, decimals and word problems before they move up to Tingkatan 1. Language students from the Faculty of Languages and Communication take English, from KSSR reading and grammar through SPM essay writing and MUET speaking for older learners.
Upper-primary tutoring has changed shape since UPSR was abolished in 2021. Tahun 4 to Tahun 6 pupils are now assessed through PBD in school, so lessons focus on steady mastery of KSSR Sains, Mathematics and English topics. Human Development and primary education students tend to enjoy this lane, because the progress is visible from one week to the next.
Every Bachelor of Education student at UPSI reaches the practicum, the school placement where lesson plans, classroom observation and supervisor visits fill the week. Tutors who have already taught one to one arrive at that placement with an advantage: they know how long a topic really takes to explain, and which questions a struggling learner asks first.
The habits carry both ways. Writing a short plan before each Edustar lesson mirrors the daily lesson plan your supervisor reads, and pacing a single learner through a Kimia chapter trains the same judgement you use with a class of thirty. Many education students find that the practicum makes their private lessons sharper too.
Placements can take you away from Tanjong Malim for several weeks. Online lessons keep a learner relationship going from wherever the placement school sits, and your tutor profile lets you adjust your hours for that term so offers match the weeks you can actually teach.
A desk in a residential college at either campus works well as a teaching station. The call itself runs on Edustar's video service, and what you bring from the college room is a laptop or tablet, a steady line and a surface where your working stays on screen as you write it. A pen tablet suits Additional Mathematics and Fizik, and a phone camera angled over paper handles Kimia equations neatly.
Shared rooms need a little planning. Book the quiet hour with your roommate, use earphones with a microphone, and test the connection before each lesson starts. Campus Wi-Fi handles daytime lessons comfortably, and for the evening hours when the whole college is online at once, a phone hotspot on standby lets you switch over mid-explanation without losing the learner.
Online lessons from Tanjong Malim reach learners across Malaysia and abroad on Malaysian time. That gives a UPSI tutor in a strong subject a wider spread of learners than the towns around the two campuses alone, and it lets lessons continue through the semester break wherever you travel.
The first offer usually names a learner close to your campus, with the level, place and rate set out before you say yes. Early lessons set the pattern: a quick look at the learner's latest school exercises, one clear target for the week, and a short practice task to try before the next meeting.
Once the opening lessons are done, the first progress note falls due, and a UPSI education student will recognise the habit from practicum: record what was taught and what the pupil showed on the day. It goes to the learner and to whoever registered them, and a Tahun 5 pupil from a Tanjong Malim school usually reads it with that person sitting alongside. A good note names the topic covered, what the learner can now do on their own, and the one area the next lessons will work on.
Form 5 learners change pace in the months before SPM. Lessons shift from new chapters to timed past-year papers, marking against the answer scheme and short drills on the questions they keep losing marks on. A UPSI tutor who plans that shift with the candidate early keeps the final weeks calm and focused.
By mid-semester most UPSI tutors settle into a rhythm of two or three fixed lesson slots a week, chosen around lectures, tutorials and assignment deadlines. Learners value that predictability, and a consistent slot makes it easier to protect your own revision time when final exams approach. Edustar also offers the learner a free tutor replacement whenever they ask, so every match starts on a fair footing for both sides.
Lessons cluster around both campuses. Learners near Kampus Sultan Abdul Jalil Shah are in Tanjong Malim town, and those near Kampus Sultan Azlan Shah live in Proton City and Behrang 2020. Slim River adds secondary pupils from SMK Slim and SMK Dato' Zulkifli Muhammad.
Yes. You set your own evenings and weekends, so you can pause during revision week and the January to February exam period. The long break from July to September frees time for online lessons wherever you spend it.
Own transport helps for Proton City, about 8 km from the main campus. Tanjung Malim station, close to the old campus, is the northern terminus of the KTM Komuter line and an ETS stop, and online lessons reach learners anywhere.
Bachelor of Education students in sciences, mathematics, languages and history match what nearby schools ask for. The application is a short online form, and the tutor profile follows through a link Edustar emails you.
Fill the short form today and take your first Tanjong Malim or Proton City learner before mid-semester break arrives.