Any music teachers on BB?

[Beach Mama]

Ok I am back!! There are a few options around but most schools would want you to be a specialist teacher which means qualified, otherwise the classroom teachers have to attend lessons, which means that they don't get their APT (time off). For Primary you don't need a separate qualification but it depends on the school you are at, many and most would want you to be able to play an instrument yourself and be able to teach basic theory. If you can play an instrument you could offer lessons to individual students or groups of students, but you would need a WWC check for that obviously. As a PA teacher, you need to familiar with school policies, curriculum requirements, assessment etc so although what they are taught is at a fairly basic level at some schools it still needs to be someone qualified who does it.

In Primary in Vic the curriculum covered includes music, dance and drama so it is quite involved although I can cover all 3 of those at times using the Orff Schulwerk approach that I use in most of my classes.

Small schools who can't find a music teacher may sometimes employ someone who comes in to run lessons for students, as I said classroom teachers in most cases would have to attend and do things like some of the assessment and reporting and the person doing this would be paid as an SSO (integration aide) level. This is what happened with Japanese at a school I taught at where we had a mum do lessons for us.

Other places like kinders have groups like Mini Maestros, Hey Dee Ho music come in an run short lessons. As a PP mentioned, you do need to be able to sing well and confidently (and need to do that to teach in Primary as well) They are usually Orff Schulwerk or Kodaly based, which is the method of teaching I use as someone who cannot play an instrument and is in the interesting place where I have a bit of free rein in what I do, with my school knowing I don't have a musical background and only basic sheet music knowledge.

HTH - it is great fun, difficult at times being a specialist instead of building a relationship with one grade each day, I have the whole school in 2 days! but I do love it and learn a lot every day.