A TMC Arts Program Teaching Artist Training

2025 Teaching Artist Training

January - March 2025

Applications now closed.

Accepted applicants will be notified and invoiced program cost around December/January.

The Music Center is proud to again offer its renowned Teaching Artist Training program in 2025. The updated course includes new best practices and is designed to offer in-person sessions with some optional virtual support sessions. Participants will focus on lesson design and gain strategies to facilitate arts learning in schools and community settings, drawing from their own artistic strengths.
Guided by Music Center teaching artists Madeleine Dahm (theatre), Andrew Grueschow (music), Lynn Okimura (visual arts & media arts) and Chisa Yamaguchi (dance/movement), this course also features independent study components and individual coaching by a mentor. This 10-week session provides participants with the skills and knowledge to begin or refine their work as teaching artists in K-12 settings as well as various community settings.
(Please note: The average time commitment for this course is approximately 5-6 hours a week with 30 hours of in-person instruction, 3 optional virtual support sessions, 6 hours of individual coaching, and 9 hours of estimated homework for a total of about 50 hours over the course of 10 weeks.) 

Program Highlights include:

  • Small discipline-based cohorts with personalized mentoring from Music Center Master Teaching Artist
  • Access to a digital resource binder with lesson plan templates
  • In-person sessions for lesson demonstrations and key concept reviews
  • Optional Zoom support sessions
  • Asynchronous support materials to deepen understanding
  • Lesson planning clinic (in-person and office hours) with individual and cohort support
  • Opportunity to teach a lesson to peers with feedback from Master Teaching Artist Mentors
  • Final graduation session with guidance on working as a teaching artist
  • Session 1: Saturday, January 25, 2025
  • Session 2: Saturday, February 1, 2025
  • Session 3: Saturday, February 8, 2025
  • Session 4: Saturday, February 22, 2025
  • Session 5: Saturday, March 1, 2025
  • Session 6: Saturday, March 8, 2025
  • Session 7: Saturday, March 15, 2025
  • Session 8: Saturday, March 29, 2025

More Information

Ebony Ruffin
Manager, Professional Development
Email: eruffin@musiccenter.org
Phone: (213) 972-3308