Renbrook School (West Hartford, CT), an independent day school for children age three to grade eight, is seeking a warm, experienced part-time general music teacher for the 2024-2025 academic school year to begin as soon as possible. The Music Teacher is responsible for teaching weekly general music classes to students in first through third grade. Depending on the candidate’s skills and experience, we may consider a full-time position which would include teaching band or general music to grades six, seven, and eight.  

This position requires a creative, detail-oriented, organized team player with a sense of humor. The Music Teacher is responsible for leading occasional performances and should have basic skills on a chordal instrument such as the guitar or piano. The teacher must be a good vocal model for children and be able to teach classroom instruments including recorder and mallet percussion. 

The ideal Lower School Music Teacher would have experience with the Responsive Classroom methodology as well as music teaching philosophies such as Conversational Solfege, Kodaly, Music Learning Theory, or Orff. 

Please submit a cover letter, resume, philosophy of teaching, and a letter of reference included all together in one PDF document, to employment@renbrook.org with Lower School Music Teacher in the subject line. 

Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree from a four-year accredited institution. A Master’s degree or a teaching credential is desirable, as is experience teaching music in traditional and/or non-traditional settings. 

About Renbrook School

Founded in 1935, Renbrook School is a pre-eminent preschool through eighth grade co-educational independent day school located in West Hartford, Connecticut. The school enrolls 330 students from 30 cities and towns in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Renbrook experience is defined by a high degree of academic rigor, personalized attention as a result of small class sizes, a nurturing environment, and an emphasis on values and respect among members of a tight-knit community. Renbrook School is an affirmative action - equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religious creed, age, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, present or past history of mental disability, intellectual disability, learning disability or physical disability, including but not limited to blindness, veteran status, sexual orientation, and other protected classes. Renbrook School will make a reasonable accommodation to known disabilities of a qualified applicant or employee, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on its operation.

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