My online piano teaching community, the Inner Circle, has a brand new look!
We’ve just released the new theme, which makes accessing online courses, hundreds of lesson plans and downloads, forums, news feed, discounts and more so much easier.
The user experience has been transformed and I can’t wait to show you inside.
Today, I will show you some of the main features of the new-look Inner Circle. Let’s go inside!
An Online Piano Teaching Community for All
I started the Inner Circle a few years ago with the aim to inspire a creative approach to musical education.
The Inner Circle is a place for all piano teachers from across the globe to come together with one goal – to become better teachers!
Now, we have hundreds of members from all over the world.
So, after a lot of planning and testing (I’m talking months) we have now released the brand new Inner Circle theme.
My lovely Inner Circle community manager Nicola Cantan recorded this video, to show you all of the exciting new features. Click on the bottom right hand corner to make it full screen.
Member Dashboard
This is such a cool part of the new theme.
You can drop and drag and move things around to have the most important items at the top.
Completely customise your dashboard so you can quickly access areas of the Inner Circle that are most relevant to you.
You might want your new member checklist, or your current courses up the top so you can click on them straight away.
Or you might want the Recent Topics widget at the very top, so you can see what people have been talking about since you were last online.
Join the the preeminent professional development, learning and networking community for instrumental music teachers.
Or maybe you want to see the member forums first, featuring all of the latest news and updates from more than a thousand teachers across the world.
The new Inner Circle membership dashboard allows you to customise and move things around to suit your needs.
Academy
The Academy is where you access all of my online piano teaching resources.
From courses to lesson plans, to quick win videos, podcasts, member only webinars and videos, everything is there.
Everything works the same as the previous theme but it looks much different.
The new Inner Circle Academy is your one-stop shop for piano teaching resources.
Want to become a better teacher and grow your business?
You can get complete access to my new Inner Circle website, connect with hundreds of teachers from around the world, grow your business and become a better teacher with a one-off fee.
Join us if you are:
Open to finding new ways of teaching using creativity and imagination
Dreaming of a studio full of the most engaged and motivated students
Ready to beat overwhelm with a clear pathway to success
Interested in finding out how you can make more money by teaching less
Looking for a steady stream of new student sign-ups each week
Just click on the button to find out how you can become a part of this inspiring community.
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Tim Topham is the founder and director of TopMusic. Tim hosts the popular TopCast show, blogs regularly at dev.topmusic.co and speaks at local and international conferences on topics such as pedagogy, business, marketing and entrepreneurship. Tim has been featured in American Music Teacher, The Piano Teacher Magazine, California Music Teacher and EPTA Piano Professional. Tim holds an MBA in Educational Leadership, BMus, DipEd and AMusA.
Hi, do you have your own courses or a website where an adult student can learn how to play the piano? You teach only to instructors on how to teach students, but not the other way around. Do you have a good course you would recommend. Thanks.
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Hi, do you have your own courses or a website where an adult student can learn how to play the piano? You teach only to instructors on how to teach students, but not the other way around. Do you have a good course you would recommend. Thanks.
Hey Kelvin, we do not provide direct referrals for private teachers at this time but thanks so much for your interest.