A Child’s Song is looking for a caring and passionate piano instructor for our Thornton studio location.
As a part of our educational team you would be responsible for:
Benefits:
Experience required:
* Bi-lingual/proficient in Spanish desired, but not required*
A Child’s Song is looking for a caring and passionate voice instructor for our Thornton studio location.
As a part of our educational team you would be responsible for:
Benefits:
Experience required:
* Bi-lingual/proficient in Spanish desired, but not required*
Music educators choose to work at A Child’s Song because we are much more than just a music school. We are a team of music lovers dedicated to breaking down barriers of access to life changing music programs. We believe that Music Changes Lives.
When you teach at A Child’s Song, you enjoy:
No more going into a person’s home or inviting them to yours, as an instructor with A Child’s Song you have use of our secure studio spaces at our Thornton or Denver locations.
We provide ourselves on maintaining a warm and welcoming mission based environment that nurtures an appreciation for music while providing programs and education to share the developmental, healing, and social-emotional benefits of music for individuals of all ages and abilities.
A Child’s Song has an outstanding presence in the community; a name associated with quality, excellence, dependability, loyalty, and longevity.
Working at A Child’s Song also provides you with additional opportunity to impact your community through involvement in outreach and school programs whose reach extend far outside the studio.
A Child’s Song has a team of administrative professionals to help you focus on what your enjoy most – teaching!
Our administrative team:
Our organization teaches 44 weeks per year. Classes and events are rarely scheduled during holiday weeks or between sessions in order to give you much-needed and deserved breaks.
Share your passion for music and become an educator at A Child’s Song today!
We are currently looking for:
As a music educator, you can either teach privately in your own home, in students’ homes, or you can teach in a music store or school – both have upsides and downsides. If you teach in your home or students’ homes, the upside is you can keep all of the money you charge to the student. Since you may not have expenses like rent, a receptionist or advertising you do not have to pay out a percentage of overhead costs. There are also downsides of teaching in your home or your students’ homes. The legal risk can be daunting; to insure yourself can be very expensive. It can be difficult, time-consuming, and expensive to market yourself.
Even if you are a talented musician and well-liked teacher, it can take a long time for referrals and word of mouth to fill your schedule. If you are driving to students’ houses you also have to factor in the driving time between students which limits the amount of teaching you can actually do, not to mention the cost and inconvenience of driving your own vehicle all around town and not having control of the teaching environment. The other downside of teaching on your own can be the difficulty in enforcing your attendance and payment policies. You must be the administrator, enforcer, and collection agent to actually receive the money due you. No one likes being a collection agent. It can be difficult to concentrate on your teaching while trying to keep track of who owes money and to make sure you are paid. It can also be difficult to enforce your teaching policies and have your time respected. When you teach independently you are operating in a vacuum without support from administration, other educators with the ability to collaborate and commiserate regarding the job you are doing. Recitals and other opportunities to showcase your student’s talents and achievements, and even your own takes a lot of time, money, and effort.
Now let’s look at teaching with our organization. The downside is you don’t get paid as much per student. Teaching rates that in-home teachers and music schools charge are usually pretty similar. In a teaching organization, the pay per student to the teacher is lower because of rent, marketing, receptionists and other expenses. The upside can be having a consistently full schedule of students each day. Being paid a little less per student but having multiple students in a day will mean you earn more overall. Another upside to teaching with our organization is that you do not have any administration or collections hassles. You only have to focus on the teaching. Also, our organization provides a professional educational environment that is stimulating to the students without the distractions of a home. We offer many student incentives that help to keep students motivated and coming back for more. You also have opportunities to share strategies with other teachers in our organization. These are the general differences between teaching on your own and teaching in a music school or store.
Job Type: Part-time Roles
Pay: $15.00 – $24.00 per hour, depending on experience
Benefits:
Education:
Experience:
Work Location: Main Thornton Campus
If you are interested in how you can nurture music appreciation in our community and think you would make a positive impact in our Mission you can submit your resume and cover letter to:
Leslie Burzcek
[email protected]
No phone calls, please. Suitable applicants will be contacted for an interview.
In short, A Child’s Song takes all the legal and business risks so that educators get to do what they do best: teach!
If you are interested in how you can nurture music appreciation in our community and think you would make a positive impact in our Mission you can submit your resume and cover letter to:
Leslie Burzcek
[email protected]
No phone calls, please. Suitable applicants will be contacted for an interview.
As a music educator, you can either teach privately in your own home, in students’ homes, or you can teach in a music store or school – both have upsides and downsides. If you teach in your home or students’ homes, the upside is you can keep all of the money you charge to the student. Since you may not have expenses like rent, a receptionist or advertising you do not have to pay out a percentage of overhead costs. There are also downsides of teaching in your home or your students’ homes. The legal risk can be daunting; to insure yourself can be very expensive. It can be difficult, time-consuming, and expensive to market yourself.
Even if you are a talented musician and well-liked teacher, it can take a long time for referrals and word of mouth to fill your schedule. If you are driving to students’ houses you also have to factor in the driving time between students which limits the amount of teaching you can actually do, not to mention the cost and inconvenience of driving your own vehicle all around town and not having control of the teaching environment. The other downside of teaching on your own can be the difficulty in enforcing your attendance and payment policies. You must be the administrator, enforcer, and collection agent to actually receive the money due you. No one likes being a collection agent. It can be difficult to concentrate on your teaching while trying to keep track of who owes money and to make sure you are paid. It can also be difficult to enforce your teaching policies and have your time respected. When you teach independently you are operating in a vacuum without support from administration, other educators with the ability to collaborate and commiserate regarding the job you are doing. Recitals and other opportunities to showcase your student’s talents and achievements, and even your own takes a lot of time, money, and effort.
Now let’s look at teaching with our organization. The downside is you don’t get paid as much per student. Teaching rates that in-home teachers and music schools charge are usually pretty similar. In a teaching organization, the pay per student to the teacher is lower because of rent, marketing, receptionists and other expenses. The upside can be having a consistently full schedule of students each day. Being paid a little less per student but having multiple students in a day will mean you earn more overall. Another upside to teaching with our organization is that you do not have any administration or collections hassles. You only have to focus on the teaching. Also, our organization provides a professional educational environment that is stimulating to the students without the distractions of a home. We offer many student incentives that help to keep students motivated and coming back for more. You also have opportunities to share strategies with other teachers in our organization. These are the general differences between teaching on your own and teaching in a music school or store.
