MYC® provides its Teachers with quality professional development, not only from the initial training seminars for each level of the program, but also extends afterwards through the International Director, biannual teacher meetings, personal teacher visits, personal micro-sites on the main myc.com website, personal ads and marketing tools, recognition of teaching years and, in International conference years, recognition of number of students taught. In MYC it has always been important to show appreciation, gratitude and respect to our teachers.
In MYC our teachers work together as a team, and you are not in competition with one another. Our continued success of our teachers is from the strong bonds and relationships they build with one another, knowing that they are all working towards the same goal.
Are you qualified to become an MYC Teacher?
To qualify to become an MYC teacher for both the pre-keyboard, music and movement program, Sunrise and Music Time for Sunrise, and our piano program, with all Levels of Sunshine, Sunbeams and Moonbeams, teachers must have:
- Level 8 Piano from an accredited conservatory, such as RCM, CC, ABRSM, Trinity, or Russian Conservatory
- Theory 2 from Conservatory Canada or Level 5/6 RCM
- Experience teaching young children ages 3-8
- Experience teaching in a group situation, not necessarily music based
To qualify for only the pre-keyboard, music and movement program, Sunrise and Music Time for Sunrise, teachers must have:
- A quality singing voice
- Experience teaching young children ages 2-4
- Experience teaching in a group situation, not necessarily music based
Course Sampler
Open the MYC course sampler PDF.
Moonbeams 3 Sampler
Open the Moonbeams 3 sampler PDF.
Get Started
All MYC teachers are independent business owners. Once you have submitted your application and met with the International Director, you will attend the Level 1 training seminar, where you not only learn about the MYC pedagogic method of teaching, but how to teach MYC. MYC requires that all teachers sign a contract, which licenses the teacher to offer MYC quality group lessons in their home or commercial studio.
Our training platform is done either in person, or via internet live, in an active, participative seminar format that will provide a new teacher with hands-on techniques and ideas for successfully planning and delivering MYC lessons. Materials included in each Level seminar includes both student and teacher manuals. For each MYC lesson and each MYC Level, concepts and terms are mapped out and follow specific progression. During each training seminar the focus is not only the learning of the MYC Method, but the ability to apply it during teaching.
Once you have completed your Level 1 training successfully, then you are fully able to start promotion, marketing and registering students to attend MYC classes in your studio.
Each new MYC teacher is personally visited or audited via internet, live or recorded, each year within their first three years of teaching MYC. This ensures that the quality and standard of the MYC Method is being delivered, and cultivates sharing teaching ideas while maintaining a high level of support for the teacher. After the initial three years, teacher support, communication, sharing and professional development continues with biannual MYC Teacher meetings, advertising and marketing events, communication with the International Director and Head Office.