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String Ensemble Instructor
Bank Street School for Children (BSC) - Children's Programs
Start Date: Friday, October 17, 2025
Role: String Ensemble Instructor (Part-Time)

Schedule:
Days: Weekly Fridays 8:00-9:00 AM, October 17 - June 11, 2026, adhering to the BSC calendar
Session:
Pay Rates: $90-105 per hour

Job Summary:
Bank Street School for Children (BSC) is seeking a String Ensemble Instructor. We are looking for a dynamic individual who embodies our values of integrity and youth development. Under the supervision of the Auxiliary Programs team and Upper School Music department, the String Ensemble instructor will conduct a weekly class. The ideal candidate will have experience with 5th - 8th-grade students and an understanding of social and emotional learning.
Responsibilities:
- Guide students in Strings instruments fundamentals.
- Provide individualized feedback to help students improve their skills.
- Design and deliver engaging rehearsal times.
- Differentiate instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners.
- Lead the students in the ensemble once a week.
- Communicate with families as needed via email.
- Build relationships with students, faculty, and family members.
- Enforce BSC principles and values of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- Be an effective communicator who can guide students.
- Model professional leadership and encourage positive behavior by adhering to BSC rules and regulations.
- Implement appropriate safety measures to ensure the well-being of students.

Qualifications:
- High School diploma required; Bachelor's degree preferred.
- Experience teaching strings instruments with school-age children.
- Preferred experience in youth music programming.
- Willingness to collaborate as part of a team and develop skills in working with individual children and small groups.

About Bank Street College of Education

The mission of Bank Street College is to improve the education of children and their teachers by applying to the educational process all available knowledge about learning and growth, and by connecting teaching and learning meaningfully to the outside world. In so doing, we seek to strengthen not only individuals, but the community as well, including family, school, and the larger society in which adults and children, in all their diversity, interact and learn. We see in education the opportunity to build a better society.

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