AY CBWS Community School Piano Teacher (WS-NST3)

St. Olaf College • Northfield, MN

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Community School Piano Teacher provides beginner individual, 30-minute piano lessons to one or more youth enrolled in the Community School program. This role involves interacting with elementary-aged children and their families, preparing tailored lessons, setting up piano equipment, and enforcing program behavioral rules and safety guidelines. The teacher will coordinate with Community School Site Leads and will have a faculty mentor from St. Olaf to guide them through the lesson teaching process.

Requirements

• Be a dependable, organized, hard-working individual who likes to work with K-5 students.
• Be energetic, patient and caring.
• Must be able to adapt to an ever-changing environment.
• Must be proficient in piano and have sufficient experience.
• All applicants should submit a music resume that includes experience with piano (years, repertoire, etc.) and any teaching experience.

Nice To Haves

• Ideally, students will be actively taking piano lessons from faculty at St. Olaf.

Responsibilities

• Teach beginner piano lessons to elementary age youth, which includes preparing appropriately scaffolded lessons using a template, offering gentle corrections, modeling good music making habits, communicating with parents, making connections with students, tracking lesson progress, and monitoring the behavior of the students to ensure their safety, as well as compliance with behavioral guidelines, rules and standards of the Community School program.
• Set up and tear down equipment needed for piano lessons.
• Video record lessons for feedback and self-observation purposes.
• Communicate with Community School staff to determine schedule and logistics.
• Communicate and meet with mentor throughout the year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed