Position Overview:
Music for Minors seeks qualified and experienced individuals to deliver weekly clarinet or violin group lessons to 5th grade students in the San Mateo Foster City School District. Educators will travel to up to 18 school sites per week to teach in-person music classes. Successful educators possess strong classroom management skills, experience teaching elementary school music, experience playing the clarinet or violin, and a love of working with children.
Clarinet
Position: Instrumental Music Teacher
Reports to: Instrumental Program Manager
Classification: Part Time: 18-22 hours/week
Work hours: 4 days/week during normal school hours
Violin
Position: Instrumental Music Teacher
Reports to: Instrumental Program Manager
Classification: Part Time: 8-10 hours/week
Work hours: 2 days/week during normal school hours
Responsibilities
In The Classroom
- Administer weekly music classes at school sites (40 minute class durations)
- Teach 5th grade music classes
- Create weekly lessons using music books provided by MFM
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with classroom teachers and school administration
- Follow all necessary MFM policies and procedures, including for COVID-19
- Promote a love of music in all students
Other Responsibilities
- Prep lessons at home each week before going in to teach
- Track number of lessons taught at each school site
- Participate in weekly online cohort meetings with other educators
- Communicate all absences and schedule changes with Instrumental Program Manager
- Attend Fall Training in August
Qualifications
- 2+ years teaching experience preferred
- Experience as a clarinetist or violinist
- Skilled in classroom management
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Available 2-4 days/week during the school day
- Energetic, flexible, patient, and enthusiastic
- Love of working with 5th grade children
- Background check
- Passion for Music for Minors mission
Salary
- $40 / hour starting rate
- Paid training and professional development
- Paid sick time
About Music for Minors
Music for Minors (MFM) is a nonprofit with over 45 years of expertise in elementary school music education. Our mission is to nurture in children a lifelong love of music. Operating in the San Francisco Bay Area, our services provide 15,000-20,000 students in transitional kindergarten through sixth grade with a program of diverse, high-quality musical experiences that is:
- Engaging and participatory
- Based on state music education standards
- A foundation for further choral and instrumental music education
- Cost-effective (regardless of district/school resources)
The MFM curriculum is sequential, standards based and culturally diverse and includes visual aids, props, and instruments. Lesson elements offer singing, listening, reading, theory, movement, dancing, and playing rhythm instruments and recorders.
To address the continual disparity in access to necessary programs in marginalized communities, MFM commits to an organizational priority of at least 50% of our reach in targeted regions of need. In addition, by nature of our program delivery, MFM provides training, professional development and jobs to a growing number of teaching artists around the Bay Area, contributing to the overall creative economy.
With three-fold service growth in the past decade, MFM boasts the reassurance that quality and affordable solutions for music education can be met. Our new strategic plan, slated to launch in late 2022, will focus on sustainable growth, outreach to a broader community, and further our innovation and thought leadership through key industry initiatives.
TO APPLY
Interested candidates must fill out this form, including attaching a resume and cover letter.
All applications and inquiries will receive a response and be kept strictly confidential. Music for Minors is an Equal Opportunity Employer.