Music Kids provides trained teachers to preschools, childcare centers and other child centers such as Y programs, outreach, afterschool program and community centers.
Teachers are franchisee's operating under the Music Kids' name and utilizing the Music Kids' teaching methods and platform.
Teachers are independant contractors building their own Music Kids business in their community.
Training cost: $600 for four days training, half in schools and half out, $300 to purchase essential instruments for your classes and a $100/month franchise fee paid through a Paypal recurring payment plan. You are responsible for your flight to Boulder, Co for training. Room and board is provided.
Music Kids teachers can earn $50 - $100+ per hour depending on the school, the number of students and the payment plan arranged between the teacher and the instructor.
Music Kids is a "flat corporation". Meaning that the earnings go entirely to the instructor/contractor minus the $100/month franchise fee.
Music Kids is a meaningful and rewarding part-time/full-time job. Set your own schedule. Be your own boss.
If you are interested in joining Music Kids, please fill out the application.
We will contact you within two business days.
Meanwhile, keep a song in your heart and strive for harmony your in life!
Amy Haywood
Music Kids is based on the Orff Schulwerk method of musical education. This approach focuses on improvisation, use of body percussion and vocal expression. Through song and movement, children begin to learn how to match pitch, experience a steady beat and sing together. Using drums and assorted percussion instruments, children develop the ability to recognize and play rhythmic patterns.
Music Kids teaches numerous musical skills while having a lot of fun, offering a variety of musical activities that are seasonal, educational, and meet the different learning types of children. The goal is kids bubbling over with a delight in music. Music Kids is about singing, moving, grooving, playing, laughing, exploring instruments, sounds, and expressions while teaching the basic concepts appropriate to young children: loud - soft, starting - stopping, high - low pitch, and discovering that music is what feelings sound like. It is fun to offer the terms: forte, pianissimo, legato, sticatto, but our focus is not on learning terms. it is on, as Karl Orff explained, “that children can learn music the same way they learn language. Carl Orff believed that just as every child learns their language without formal instruction, they can learn music using a gentle and friendly approach.”
Music Kids runs a six to eight week lesson plan, generally, keeping the name song, finger play and good bye song the same while incorporating rhythm sticks, instruments, drums, scarves, shaky eggs, puppets, dances and movements into the plan, being sure to weave in the seasons, holidays (depending on the school preference), and sometimes by request, current school themes. Class should be pertinent to life. When we had the fires in Boulder County we sang fire trucks and firefighters. It helped the children have a space to process the trauma all around them.