Classroom Music Teacher K-6th Grade $42/hr 24-25

4 weeks ago


San Mateo, United States Music for Minors Full time

**This position is for the 24-25 school year. Start date: August 26, 2024**

**Position Overview**:
Music for Minors seeks qualified and experienced individuals to deliver weekly music lessons to TK - 6th grade students in the California Bay Area. Educators will travel to multiple school sites per week to teach in-person music classes using MFM-provided curriculum and instrument kits. Successful educators possess strong classroom management skills, experience with a variety of student age and ability levels, a musical background, and a love of working with children.

**Position**: General Music Teacher

**Reports to**: General Program Manager

**Classification**: Part Time

**Work Hours**:Up to 25 hours/week during normal school hours. Hours based on educator availability and school openings.

**Scheduling**:2-5 days/week. Scheduling flexible.

**Work Location**:Primarily in-person at school sites. 2-4 online cohort meetings with Program Manager per month. Sites across the California Bay Area, including:

- North Peninsula (South San Francisco, Daly City)
- Peninsula (San Mateo, San Carlos, Redwood City)
- South Bay (San Jose)

**Compensation**
- **$42/hour starting rate**:

- Paid training and professional development
- Paid weekly planning time
- Paid cohort meetings
- Paid sick time
- Eligible for 401(k) plan after 12 months of employment

**Dates**

**This position is for the 24-25 school year.**
- Employment Start: August 26, 2024
- Fall Training: August 26 - 29, 2024
- Classes Start: Week of September 9, 2024
- Classes End: April - June, 2025. Dependent on assigned schedule and school program length.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**

**In The Classroom**
- Administer weekly music classes at school sites (30-45 minute class durations)
- Use MFM-provided curriculum and instrument kits for at least 85% of each lesson
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with classroom teachers and school administration
- Follow MFM policies and procedures
- Promote a love a of music in all students

**Other Responsibilities**
- Use paid planning time to prepare lessons each week
- Participate in paid online cohort meetings
- Track number of lessons taught at each school site
- Communicate all absences and schedule changes with Program Manager
- Attend Fall Training in August

**Qualifications**
- 2+ years teaching experience preferred
- Experience as a vocalist or instrumentalist
- Ability to commit to a full school year, September - June
- Comfortable singing songs with a class
- Skilled in classroom management
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Energetic, flexible, patient, and enthusiastic
- Love of working with elementary school children
- Background check & TB clearance
- Proof of Covid vaccination
- Passion for Music for Minors mission

**Physical Demands**
- Ability to lead energetic locomotor and non-locomotor motions with students
- Ability to transport 10-25lbs of curriculum resources between classrooms on school site using MFM-provided cart or other method

**Work Environment**
- Work primarily performed at school sites with a wide variety of sounds, noises, and temperature environments

**Travel Requirements**
- Travel required to school sites on assigned teaching days. Periodic travel to MFM office.
- Average travel is within 20 miles of educator home location. Further travel only assigned based upon mutual agreement.

**About Music for Minors**

Music for Minors is a nonprofit with close to 50 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 provides over 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.

**Job Type**: Part-time

Pay: From $42.00 per hour

Expected hours: No more than 25 per week

**Benefits**:

- 401(k)
- Flexible schedule
- Paid sick time
- Paid training

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