Career Center

Primary Responsibility: Teaching in assigned area: private instruction, classwork, ensemble direction.

Education: Masters degree in music, emphasis in area of instruction.

Alternatively, professional experience and accomplishments may replace traditional academic credentials, particularly in areas of commercial music specialization. Documentation is required.

Experience: Proven record of success in performance or other assigned area of instruction. Record of success in teaching strongly preferred.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities:

• Private Instructors:
  • Meet students at arranged weekly time; students receive minimum 12 lessons per semester. Prepare students for performances (recitals) and juries; end-of-semester juries should demonstrate evidence of progress throughout the semester.
• Classroom Instructors:
  • Meet classes at assigned weekly times. Prepare lectures, classroom activities, assignments, and assessments that enable students to understand assigned content, to progress to more difficult content, and to apply content to other classroom and performance work.
• Ensemble Directors:
  • Meet ensembles at assigned weekly time(s). Select, assign, (and arrange as needed) music appropriate to the type of group and abilities of performers. Ensembles should allow students to perform successfully, advance to more difficult material, learn about effective approaches to rehearsal (appropriate to the group), and learn about the details of successful performance presentation.