A Child's Song is Currently Looking for:
Piano Instructor
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:
- educating students of all ages and abilities in one-on-one and group settings
- developing a curriculum and educational schedule in conjunction with other educators
- maintaining lesson plans and consistent progress reports to keep students on track in the classroom and at home
- coordinating with educational and administrative teams regularly to ensure success of your students and the studio as a whole
Benefits:
- Pay: $15+ per hour, depending on experience
- Flexible scheduling that compliments your existing work/life balance
- Reduced fees on music lessons for self and children
Experience required:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- 1+ years teaching experience
- Ability to potentially work evenings and weekends to assist with events and outreach
* Bi-lingual/proficient in Spanish desired, but not required*
Voice Instructor
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:
- educating students of all ages and abilities in one-on-one and group settings
- developing a curriculum and educational schedule in conjunction with other educators
- maintaining lesson plans and consistent progress reports to keep students on track in the classroom and at home
- coordinating with educational and administrative teams regularly to ensure success of your students and the studio as a whole
Benefits:
- Pay: $15+ per hour, depending on experience
- Flexible scheduling that compliments your existing work/life balance
- Reduced fees on music lessons for self and children
Experience required:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- 1+ years teaching experience
- Ability to potentially work evenings and weekends to assist with events and outreach
* Bi-lingual/proficient in Spanish desired, but not required*
Mission oriented environment breaking down barriers of access to life changing music programs
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:
- coordinates student registration, payment and scheduling
- coordinates trials, classes and lessons to achieve optimal use of your time.
- supports rescheduling of classes/make-up sessions as needed and within studio policy
- determines and communicates class and lesson pricing with clients that include your time, materials, recitals, etc.
- processes all financial transactions with clients and handles all accounting necessities like taxes, fees, and other costs of doing business
- provides you payment directly for teaching time, travel mileage, administrative meetings and events (educators are paid for classes whether or not the student shows up for class, unless there are extenuating circumstances).
- provides materials needed for class instruction and support
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!
Apply Now
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We are currently looking for:
- Receptionist
- Piano Instructor
- Flute Instructor
- Voice Instructor
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:
- Flexible schedule
- Monday to Friday with option to work evenings and weekends for events and outreach programs
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Required)
- Bi-lingual/proficient in Spanish desired, but not required.
Experience:
- Teaching: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: Main Thornton Campus
APPLY NOW:
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.
A CHILD'S SONG EDUCATOR'S SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE WHILE ENJOYING:
- A safe studio to provide your lessons, no more going into a person’s home or inviting them to yours!
- Mission oriented environment to nurture an appreciation for music while providing programs and education to share the developmental, healing, and social-emotional benefits of music for children and adults.
- Brand recognition. A Child’s Song has an outstanding presence in the community; a name associated with quality, excellence, dependability, loyalty, and longevity.
- The opportunity to impact your community through involvement with a local nonprofit organization whose reach extends far outside the classroom.
- Administrative Support:
- Our professional office staff handles all phone, mail, email correspondence.
- Our office keeps track of student information and registrations.
- Classes and lessons are scheduled with optimal use of your time.
- Prices are established by the organization for the classes, materials, recitals, and such.
- Tuition and fees are collected by our office; the financial end of the business is handled for you.
- Our office handles collections, orders, and provides materials for the students.
- Educators are paid for classes whether or not the student shows up for class, (unless there are extenuating circumstances).
- Our office sets up trial classes and student placements within your available timeframes.
- Offices handles absences and schedules of occasional make-ups (make-ups only permitted in extenuating circumstances).
- Our office schedules your classes around your availability with minimal or no breaks between students.
- Our organization teaches 44 weeks per year. Therefore, no classes are scheduled during holiday weeks or between sessions giving you much-needed and deserved breaks.
- Students provide their own Instruments. Pianos are available in most studio rooms.
- Optional recitals are planned quarterly.
In short, A Child’s Song takes all the legal and business risks so that educators get to do what they do best: teach!
A Child's Song Music Education Team Includes and Often Hires Additional:
- Piano Instructors
- Violin Instructors
- Voice Instructors
- Drum Instructors
- Guitar Instructors (Acoustic, Bass, Electric and Ukulele)
- Early Childhood Instructors
- Reach and Teach Instructors (Special Needs Music Education)
- Community Outreach Instructors
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.
WHY TEACH FOR A CHILD'S SONG?
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.
