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Become a Sur Place workshop teacher
Sur Place believes in the value of sharing.
As a Sur Place workshop teacher, you’ll be guiding a creative process to a small group of students from across Canada – live and online.
Sur Place relieves you of administrative burdens, so you can focus on creating a fun, unique and impactful learning experience for your students.
You’ll foster meaningful relationships, gain valuable experience, and enhance your own teaching skill set—all while generating revenue
Fill your workshops with students
Have your workshop marketed across Canada
Strengthen your teaching style
Our online classrooms are:
Interactive, with discussions and group feedback
Small and intimate, with groups of 4-8 participants
Made for busy schedules, with four-week-session formats
Practical, with a balance of theory and hands-on exercises
Become a workshop teacher for Fall 2021
We aim to interview candidates within 3 weeks of receiving their application.
Should you have any additional questions, please direct them to .
FAQ
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Yes! We are proud to have provided first-time teaching opportunities to several of our instructors. We offer extra support to first-time teachers on a limited basis.
In our interview process we ask you to prepare a 15 minute sample workshop. It can be any part of your proposed workshop that will give us a sense of your teaching style.
We are looking to assess:
- Online teaching skills
- Interaction with students
- Opportunities for students to interact with one another
You will be supported and taken care of by an appointed member of the Sur Place team. Your agent will coordinate your onbaording and support you while you give your workshop. If you need to be in touch with a real person during the application process, please direct your questions, concerns and interests to .
Yes. We host all our workshops using Zoom. To offer online workshops, all our teachers need their own computer with a webcam, a microphone or headset, high speed internet suitable for streaming video and a quiet space to teach from.
Sur Place will market your workshop on our website and social media platforms. We encourage teachers to advertise their workshop within their own networks using the materials developed by Sur Place.
Yes! When you sign up, let us know what languages you are comfortable teaching in so we can advertise your workshop accordingly. We currently offer workshops in French and English.
Our four-week workshops are typically priced between $100 and $150. Workshops need a minimum of four students to run. Teachers receive 80 percent of the gross revenue, and Sur Place takes a fee of 20 percent.
So, four students each paying $150 would be $600 gross. The teacher would be paid $480, and $120 would go to Sur Place.
At the point when we’re ready to invite a new teacher to join our team, we’ll send them our teacher agreement that spells out the business relationship between the teacher, who works as an independent contractor, and Sur Place, a non-profit organization that markets and hosts the classes for the benefit of our students.
Our students are dabblers, freelancers, and lifelong learners. We ask participants about their projects and dreams and share that information with the teachers prior to the workshops.There are no prerequisites for our workshops, so be prepared to welcome students of all levels.
Since April 2020, all of our workshops have been online, on Zoom or Google Meets. Going forward we plan to continue offering live online workshops. We plan to go back to in-person workshops in Montreal, starting in Spring 2022. And, we’re looking to offer in-person workshops in other Canadian cities and towns by partnering with trusted arts venues and community centres. If you’re interested in in-person workshops, or you represent a venue that could host training events, we want to hear from you. Please express your interest by writing an email to .