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Employment at TSM
The teVelde School of Music (TSM) is the South San Luis
Obispo Guild Adjudication Center for the National Guild of Piano Teachers and
the American College of Musicians. Bonnie teVelde is the Chairperson of this
Center, having Founded it in 1998. TSM is also the exclusive center for the
Dou Dou Sight Reading Method Examinations, and we have an exclusive contract
to provide the only Sight Reading/Ear Training/Rhythm/Sight Singing Judges
in the County of San Luis Obispo.
The teVelde School of Music has the Following Permanent,
Part-time Teaching Positions Available:
Piano Teacher:
Must have had at least 8 years of piano lessons, and
attained at least the level of Late Intermediate. Must practice regularly,
and have a desire to teach and continue to improve in musical skills. Must
have a good understanding of music theory, solid instrumental technique, and
a good ear. Must sight read music accurately and quickly. Experience playing
for a school or church choir a plus. Must have a patient, kind, enthusiastic
personality, and enjoy working with children. Will consider training the right
candidate. This could turn into a full time, permanent management position
for the right, motivated person who wants to make a career in music. Must be
available to work 1-2 days per week, M-F, between 3-7 p.m., to start. Position
may grow to as much as 3-5 days per week, and/or hours may expand outside of
the range stated. There will be flexibility for the right candidate.
Violin Teacher:
Seeking a teacher that is willing to work with beginning
and intermediate students. Must have studied violin for at least 8 years, and
have played in an orchestra for at least 3 of those years. Must read music
well, have good instrumental technique, and have a desire to be continually
improving personal skills. Must have a patient, kind, enthusiastic personality
and get along well with children. We will consider training the right candidate
to teach. The right Candidate must be willing to prepare beginning through
intermediate students for participation in the SLO Youth Symphony. Position
could grow into a full time position managing a string program in the South
County area in the next five years. Must be available to work 1-2 days per
week, M-F, between 3-7 p.m., to start. Position may grow to as many as 3-5
days per week, and/or hours may expand outside of the range stated. There will
be flexibility for the right candidate.
Other Instruments and Voice: Are You Missing Out On Your
Calling?
We are always interested in musicians that love their
instrument of choice, and have a passion for sharing that craft with others.
Have you ever thought these things:
- I have played all my life, and always wished I had
chosen teaching music as a career rather than what I do now...
- I took lessons for years, and now I'm not doing anything
with it. Could mentoring a student fill a void that has been missing in my
life for years?
- I am still in high school or college. Am I really good
enough to teach a beginner? How can I be sure I wouldn't miss something critical
that would damage them?
- I would like to teach, but I don't want to have strangers
coming into my home, and I don't want to run my own business.
- I already teach, but I'm driving
around to student's homes, and it's costing me more in time and gas, not
to mention the days when the student "forgets" there's a lesson,
and it just not worth it. I wish I could just teach my students in one place,
all in a row, with 24-hours notice if they aren't going to show up.
If you've thought any of these things at one time, I
would like to talk to you. Please send me an email and tell me what your dream
is. I want you to work and study music at the same time. We will be getting
you trained and certified, so you can really be an excellent teacher, with
students that are happy and successful. Every time they are, you get paid more.
I have a place where the students are scheduled to come,
and you just teach them, using your gift without the stress of having to drive
all over the county for a maybe. And if you prove your worth as a teacher,
with student retention and guild scores, you get paid real money for it, as
well as the true knowledge that you will be greatly appreciated for sharing
that which has cost you so much of your life and your time with someone else.
People come to this school because of teachers that want to be the very best
of the best. If you are continually working towards this end, we want to help
you at any stage of that development.
And you don't have to start with 20 students. You can
mentor 1 student and see how it goes. Our new mentoring program would set you
up with a student who can't afford full time lessons, and when you share, they
win. When it goes from mentoring to teaching, and you feel really good about
it, you can change from a mentor to a Certified Teacher.
Students at this school have a choice about who they
wish to have teach them. The better you get at interacting with students, and
motivating them about music, the more will choose you as the teacher they want.
All Mentors and Teachers Must Be Willing To:
- Pass a background check
- Provide references
- Be willing and open to learning new teaching ideas and styles
- Be patient, gentle, and kind to their students
- Be reliable, responsible, & honest; no excuses
- Remain completely drug and alcohol free on the job, and have a clean
criminal record
What We Offer the Right Candidate:
- The highest hourly contract pay of any music school
on the Central Coast.
- The best work environment, equipment, and software
of any music school on the Central Coast.
- The most motivated, talented, hard-working, and highly
intelligent students anywhere, period.
- The most supportive parents you will find anywhere,
period.
- Fully evaluated students, and parents who understand
them, with clear goals, and a pre-written assessment that will tell you exactly
how to teach each student.
- The best teaching team anywhere on the Central Coast.
No interpersonal conflict, just stress free support.
- The best computer, software, and sound engineer anywhere,
period. (He does the sound for Jon Anderson as well.)
- The most beautiful outdoor and indoor environment of
any music school on the Central Coast.
- A second teaching location for
teaching larger groups in Grover Beach. This second location has a large
stage w/pro lighting, a baby grand piano, a complete sound system, and a
full setup for a band. At any time, as a teacher at the teVelde School of
Music, one may submit a request to teach a class at this second location. We
are looking into opening additional locations in Nipomo, San Luis Obispo,
and Avila Beach in the future.
Additional Benefits:
- A teacher with the teVelde School
of Music has the distinction of being associated with a school that values
responsibility, hard work, and the close mentoring bond that develops between
the music student and the teacher. The teacher won’t be required to share
your students with other teachers, randomly, when either the student’s
or your schedule changes. The teacher will be allowed to work with the
student to find an available time/day that works for both of you, and all
avenues will be exhausted before the student is placed with another teacher. (We
do like you to tell us if you are going on vacation, so we can arrange a sub
if you are gone.) We believe that you work hard to build a bond with
your students, and to get to know their strengths and weaknesses. It
is very difficult for a student to work with a teacher, or vice-versa,
for 2-3 years, just to be ripped away and given another teacher, all because
of a schedule change. Although other schools routinely do this, we feel this
is detrimental to the student as well as the teacher. The only
exception to this principle is if the teacher has reached their knowledge
limit with the student.
- A teacher with the teVelde School of Music can schedule
all of their students back to back in a private teaching room, with Arroyo
Grande Creek outside the back window. Each teaching room has 2 pianos, a full
drum kit, an amplifier, wireless internet access, and a full library of music
outside your door. The larger teaching room includes a full recording studio,
a MIDI studio, and a myriad of music teaching software for use during your
teaching sessions. You will have access to the scheduling computer from any
internet connection, allowing you full control over schedule changes. You
will be teaching with state of the art technology, including a MIDI studio,
and full recording studio.
- A teacher with TSM becomes
a member of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, and has their students
adjudicated at the teVelde School of Music location each year. If already
teaching for TSM, teachers may prepare their students for annual adjudication
on the same pianos, and in the same exact environment that they are going
to play in when they are evaluated. Your students will play better, and you,
in turn, will earn your Guild Teaching Certification more quickly.
- The teVelde School of Music
has access to 3-4 concerts/”recitals” per year, and all of your
students will be able to participate in these showcases of talent. Our concerts
are different from most “recitals” in that students do not have to
play. They fill out raffle tickets at the beginning of the
concert, and if they decide that they want to play, they
put it in the bowl, and it may be drawn, like a gift. Playing in the concert
becomes a “prize”to
be won, not a stress filled evening of angst. We have 2 large
seasonal concerts dates per year, and 2 smaller ones. We
will be having our Christmas concerts, both on Saturday, one at 6p.m. and
one at 7:30p.m. We will be having 2 End of the Year Concerts at the end of
May, where all students will receive their guild awards. Those concerts will
also be on Saturday evenings, at 6p.m. and at 7:30p.m.
- Each year, there are many
requests for TSM teachers to perform at public and private
events around the county. These include large functions at the
Christopher Cohan Center for the Performing Arts, and the Clark Center as
well as private weddings, parties, church events and services, and many more.
These requests come into the school because of our excellent reputation for
fulfilling those requests in the past, and we pass those requests on to our
teachers without taking a cut or finder's fee. This way our teachers can
earn extra income through performance and accompaniment requests leads that
come in to the school. These are usually in the form of playing for weddings,
churches, rehearsals, Christmas parties, etc. We pass these leads on to our
teachers without taking any cut or finder’s fee. We think it
is good for our teachers to be out there playing and being heard.
- Teacher’s with the
teVelde School of Music make the most money per hour of any music teachers
at any schools in the County of San Luis Obispo. We pay more because
we have better teachers. They are more experienced, they take full
responsibility for their students doing well, and they expect
more of themselves.
We pay our teachers a finder’s
fee of $100 for every new student that starts with TSM after having been referred
directly to the school by you. They must mention your name when they
first call in for lessons.
What is Required of Our Teachers?
We expect you to research your student’s learning
style & personality, as given to you after the testing is completed, and
adjust your teaching style to match it. We expect you to learn about
all of the different combinations of personalities and learning styles, and
take part in teacher training sessions on Saturday afternoons or on other
days when offered. At least 3 of these sessions must be completed by
you in the first 3 months of Teaching, or as soon thereafter as offered. These
classes are also required to enhance your TSM teaching certification in any
way. You must read the book "Do What You Are" and "Nurture
by Nature", and take a proficiency test on the information in them, you
will automatically get a $1 per hour raise. This is because our
entire testing system is based on the systems taught in these
books, and you need to understand how to use the results in the most effective
way. If, after one month with us, you still haven't read the books or understand
the related materials, you will not be given any more students.
- Each week we expect you
to keep an accurate record of exactly what you taught each student, on the
appropriate student lesson log in the student file.
- We expect you to be on time,
well groomed, and consistent regarding the day & time of the lessons
you teach. We ask that you not skip lessons unless you have given
Bonnie teVelde at least 2 weeks notice. At that point, she will let
you know whether you will be having a sub teach your
students during your absence, or whether you will be
allowed to make up the lessons yourself.
- We expect you to stick to
the curriculum assigned, and not to skip anything, period.
This is especially important, as we have found that teachers
that skip songs and sections of books are skipping valuable material that
was put into the method for a reason. Unless a teacher can tell us, what
that reason is, and why it is not important to the student’s learning,
it must be taught.
- We expect you to learn all
of the duets that accompany the Faber or other method books we assign. You
will be expected to teach the curriculum exactly as outlined in the testing
summary in the student's file. You will be required to learn how to teach
the Dou Dou Sight Reading Method, and integrate it into your weekly lesson
routine as well.
- We expect you to prepare
your students for National Guild of Piano Teachers Adjudications
every year, without exception. The judging is usually in
the months of May or June, and it is your responsibility to find out the
requirements for your student, and make sure that they are met. You must
find out the minimum musicianship phases that apply to each student, and
make sure that his or her repertoire is memorized and complete at least
4 weeks before the guild is scheduled. You are responsible for getting the
correct spelling of your student’s
names, their songs, composers, # of songs, the level
they will play at, and the award they are seeking to the
Guild Chair (Bonnie teVelde) no later than 6 weeks before the guild adjudication
date each year, or no later than March 15th.
- We expect you to prepare
your students for Dou Dou Sight Reading Examinations every time they finish
a Level of the Dou Dou Method.
Our School is going to go through a large expansion in the next
2-5 years. We are also adding a community music program, which will include
a children's choir and an orchestra. There will be many opportunities for
personal growth on the job, including extra hours and extra responsibilities
as various persons prove themselves over the next several years. Our current
teachers have had up to 3 year waiting lists for several years, so we are
looking for a select few teachers to add to our team.
Hours are flexible, M-F 3-6 p.m. (1-2 weekdays per week, once
set, pretty much the same each week). Hours will be added depending on the
reliability of the employee, and the demand for the instrument... possibly
developing up to 20 hours per week.
Please send a resume and include short and long range employment
goals, as well as salary requirements.
Email us at: teveldemusic for
more information on teaching. We would be honored to have you.
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Holly Simmons Instructor

Molly Dobbs, Student
Jenna Zoblisien, Student
Skyler St. Marie, Student
Christopher Taylor, Student
Vivian Meyer, Student
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The teVelde School of Music - East Campus
Private Lessons & Recording Studio
624 E. Grand Avenue, Suite A
Arroyo Grande, CA 93420
The teVelde School of Music - West Campus
teVelde Tots & Group Classes
707 E. Grand Avenue
Arroyo Grande, CA 93420
For Directions, Click here: Map
(805) 474-1224
email:
the teVelde School of Music
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