Part-Time Music TeacherEF Academy PasadenaEF Academy is looking for a part-time Music Teacher to join our faculty for the 2025 Spring semester (January 6, 2025) and teach one section of instrumental music. EF Academy is an international day and boarding high school serving international students from over 30 countries. EF Academy Pasadena opened in September of 2022, joining sister schools in New York and Oxford. EF Academy Pasadena currently enrolls 260 students, but is on a growth pathway towards 1000 students (700 boarders and 300 local day students) over the next many years. EF Academy Pasadena faculty members are exceptional educators who are fully committed to a competency-based learning (CBL) approach to education. Our faculty constantly pursue learning to refresh their understanding of pedagogical best practices for student engagement and agency, with a special focus on project-based learning (PBL). Our faculty work collaboratively on implementing CBL with fidelity to the guiding values for equity and personalization and PBL in alignment to the Gold Standards defined by the Buck Institute. As both a start-up and a boarding school, at EF Academy Pasadena our faculty are guided in their practice by an educator competency architecture with four domains that define how to be and become inspiring educators, committed caretakers, courageous innovators, and relationship builders. Working on this team of faculty requires a commitment to best practices, a comfort with iteration, and a fervor for collaboration! Professional Qualifications and Qualities:Bachelor’s degree in teaching or relevant field, advanced degree preferredA minimum of 3 years’ experience working with students as a teacher, instructor, or tutorFamiliarity with student-centered teaching methodsOutstanding written and verbal communication skillsWell-organized Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skillsGrowth mindset Key Responsibilities in Each Domain: Inspiring EducatorsTeach one section of students in instrumental music with varying levels of music background and knowledge.Implement student-centered pedagogies, using the framework for Gold Standard PBL to design and execute projects.Collaborate with the full faculty on defining and executing yearly interactions of school-wide CBL systems, structures, and best practices. Partner with the Director of Learning Support and the Director of English Language Learning Support to create inclusive classrooms for students with learning differences or with lower English proficiencies.Committed CaretakersBe familiar with EF Academy Pasadena’s processes for supporting student well-being. Embrace responsibilities to support student well-being. Courageous InnovatorsCommit to the CBL and PBL vision of academics and experiment boldly with curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment.Participate fully in professional learning opportunities offered by the school. Relationship BuildersActively engage with department and faculty meetings.Work cooperatively with colleagues on planning, gathering and sharing resources, and cross grading/rubric tuning.Take actions that demonstrate commitment to helping students feel known, seen, and valued. Job Status The music faculty position is a part-time, non-exempt position with hours dependent upon availability. Pay rate is dependent upon years of relevant experience and highest degree earned and varies from $25-30/hour. The anticipated start date is January 6, 2025.
About EF Education First
At EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs—focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics—turn dreams into international opportunities.
When you join EF, you join a multicultural and diverse community working across more than 600 schools and offices in 50 countries, all with one shared mission of opening the world through education. Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about—we welcome you and want you to bring that to work every day. EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, caste, parental status, identity, experience and everything else that makes you unique.
Founded in Sweden in 1965, EF has schools and offices around the world, including hubs in Boston, London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Zürich, and more. Learn more at https://www.ef.com.