EDUCATION FOR INSTRUMENTAL TEACHERS
An institute for
instrumental teachers
The Institute delivers effective, practical training to emerging and experienced instrumental and vocal teachers, upskilling the industry to ensure every music student is taught well.
Starts Monday 1 March 2027 · Live online
THE INSTITUTE
You were trained to be a fine musician, but who taught you how to teach?
The craft of teaching is a skill that can be learnt.
Welcome! The Institute was developed to provide tailored education for aspiring and practising instrumental teachers, and it is one of a kind. Its flagship pedagogy course is designed to be cost effective and time efficient: it is studied live online, completed in ten weeks and includes a two-day intensive. It leads to recognition as a certified teacher and prepares you to submit for teaching diplomas.
If you want to learn how to get consistent results across your entire studio, have your work recognised and run your studio efficiently, you are in the right place. The founding cohort begins on Monday 1 March 2027, with bonuses offered only to this first group, including ten extra tutorials shaped around the cohort’s own needs. Join us by enrolling in the course, or request a phone call.
Anthony van den Broek
Founder and Principal Lecturer
When a student's progress is patchy, something is missing.
THE PROBLEM
Other teachers get faster results. Parents notice.
Progress and results are patchy. Parents compare notes. Referrals go elsewhere.
THE ANSWER
The skills to diagnose and solve problems, and to plan lessons that avoid common pitfalls.
THE PROBLEM
You were taught to play. Who taught you to teach?
Pedagogy is often not taught in universities. Certification and teaching diplomas are hard to reach.
THE ANSWER
Completing the course covers the certification standards and prepares you for the CTMusA and ATMusA diplomas.
THE PROBLEM
The lessons end. The admin doesn’t.
Fees, enquiries, parent emails, marketing, tax, legal and financial obligations, employment issues.
THE ANSWER
Efficient business, marketing, finance and administration practices that mark you as a true professional.
Your pathway to better teaching
Watch a free workshop · Request a free teaching guide · Explore the course
FREE WORKSHOP · TWO-PART RECORDING
Solving tricky passages before the student stumbles
Every piece has its predictable trouble spots: the leap that misses, the texture that will not balance, the hands that will not coordinate, the run that never comes even. Each one can be solved, and most of the trouble can be avoided with the right preparation. In this two-part recorded workshop Anthony works through 27 passages that teachers sent in, showing the technical issue in each one, how to solve it and what to teach beforehand so the student never stumbles. Free to watch, with a free handout of every passage.
FREE GUIDE · SEVEN PAGES
From Good to Outstanding: The Ten-Minute Check That Turns a B into an A
Many exam results sit between B and B+. The playing behind them is rather good with notes and rhythms mostly secure. What holds the grade back is some kind of unevenness. This guide helps you diagnose exactly what this unevenness is, and what to do immediately to lift a student’s result from good to outstanding.
FOUNDING COHORT · STARTS 1 MARCH 2027 · 45 PLACES
Piano Teacher Pedagogy and Practice: 10-Week Course
You were taught to play. But who taught you to teach? This course bridges the gap between playing well and teaching well. It shows how students learn, and how to teach different students at every level, ability and background, with strategies you can implement immediately. Successful completion leads to MTA(NSW) Certification and prepares you for a teaching diploma.
Endorsed by the Board of the Music Teachers' Association of NSW
“Over many years in Australian music, chairing the MTA and the Sydney Eisteddfod, founding an orchestra and building tools for music educators, I have seen the same thing again and again. The quality of a young musician’s future depends, more than anything, on the quality of their teacher. Yet private music teachers, who carry so much of that responsibility, have had remarkably few ways to learn the craft of teaching and have that expertise properly recognised.
This course changes that. It is rigorous, practical and realistic about the lives of working teachers, and it gives them a recognised pathway to grow as professionals. That is why the MTA Board is proud to enter into a strategic partnership with IMPA, and why I recommend this course to every piano teacher, whether you are starting out, mid-career or have taught for decades.
We look forward to welcoming the founding cohort into the MTA community.”
Max Holzner
Chair, Music Teachers’ Association of NSW
Endorsed by Professor Anna Reid
“I endorse the Piano Teacher Pedagogy and Practice course delivered by the IMPA in conjunction with the MTA (NSW). It fills gaps between the practice of intuitive teaching, the development of real pedagogical knowledge, and the preparation for AMEB CTMusA and ATMusA awards.
I believe that those who undertake the course will feel that their teaching is enriched and their ability to work with students enhanced.
This is a marvellous way to gain professional experience whilst interacting with fellow teachers.”
Professor Anna Reid
Head of School and Dean, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Endorsed by Samantha Coates
“No-one taught me to teach, and experience takes a very long time. I wish I had had a course like this in my early years, and even in my intermediate years!
It is wonderful that pianists can now access a structured way to develop and finesse their pedagogical skills.”
Samantha Coates
Pianist, teacher and author of the BlitzBooks series