Tāla helps you teach
Live online workshops that take you from guesswork to intentional teaching with music and play. Leave with lesson plans for your next class.
Join Teachers from 100+ Schools
Always searching for the next song or activity?
Beyond random activities, you need a framework for music and play to support meaningful learning. Because guessing your way through the classroom costs you:
Your Time
Hours searching online for something that might work.
Your Confidence
Hoping today's activity works, because you have no framework to rely on.
The Learning
Children enjoy every lesson. But is it building inquiry, agency and real understanding?
Most teachers were never trained to teach music this way, or to teach through play. That changes here.
What you'll learn at Tāla Online
Whether you're a music teacher or a homeroom teacher in an IB or Cambridge school, Tāla Online helps you move beyond collecting activities to intentional teaching. Rooted in early childhood music education, our workshops combine music, movement and play-based pedagogy with practical strategies you can use in your very next lesson.
See what learning with Tāla looks like.
One live workshop. A real toolkit to teach with.
Join live on any device and leave with a ready-to-use lesson plan, practical activities, a certificate and a place in our teacher community. It's your first step into everything Tāla offers.
What's included in this free session
Workshop
Included
Activities
Community
with PD Hours
Resources
How it works
Save your free seat.
Registration takes less than a minute.
Join us live.
Ninety minutes. Interactive. Practical. No lectures.
Teach it in your next class.
Leave with a ready-to-use lesson plan and a framework you can keep using.
A structured pathway from Play to Understanding
Learn a simple six-step framework built for IB and CIE classrooms. Works for every teacher.
Core Concept
Choose one big musical idea and explore it in depth.
Plan with the End in Mind
Start with the learning outcome. Plan with purpose and flexibility.
Choose a Pathway
Select one pathway to guide exploration and inquiry.
Teaching & Learning Process
Move from imitation to exploration, composition and improvisation.
Student Agency
Create a safe space for choice, expression and ownership.
Assess
Observe, reflect and respond. Assessment is part of the learning.
Kevin Wilson
Founder, Tāla Education
Every teacher wants their classroom to come alive, but most were never taught how to use music and play as powerful tools for learning.
Kevin Wilson has helped teachers do exactly that. As Founder of Tāla Education, he has trained more than 2,000 teachers across 100+ schools in India.
He studied at the Bangalore Conservatory, pursued the Orff pedagogy in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and through the Association for Music in International Schools, and has led the Performing Arts Department at Bangalore International School.
Throughout the Tāla Online season, guest educators from around the world will also lead selected workshops.
What teachers say
I have already seen a breakthrough in our teachers' mindset and the quality of their lesson plans.
It changed my mindset about music and movement, and gave me tools I took straight back to class.
This completely shifted how I teach music to children. A must for any early years teacher.
Music and play belong in every classroom.
Tāla Online shows you how.
Who teaches the music teacher?
Who shows homeroom teachers how to intentionally use music, movement and play in the classroom?
For most teachers, the answer is no one.
You're given a curriculum. You attend lecture-based professional development. Then you're expected to figure out the rest yourself.
That's why Tāla Online exists.
We believe every teacher deserves practical guidance, not just theory. Inspired by the world's leading approaches to early childhood music education, our workshops turn music, movement and play into lessons you can confidently teach in your own classroom.
Whether you're a music teacher, a homeroom teacher or anyone working with young children, you'll leave with more than new ideas. You'll leave with a practical framework for creating engaging lessons that build musical understanding, inquiry and student agency.
Every child deserves meaningful music education.
Every teacher deserves to know how to teach it.
Join us for this free live workshop and discover what's possible.
Questions teachers ask
No. Tāla Online is designed for music teachers, homeroom teachers, Early Years educators and Lower Primary teachers who want to teach more intentionally through music, movement and play.
Perfect. Our workshops are designed for teachers, not performers. You'll leave with practical ideas and a framework you can confidently use in your classroom.
Yes. This introductory workshop is completely free.
Yes. You'll receive a certificate of participation with professional development hours.
No. These workshops are designed to be experienced live and through active participation.
A laptop, an internet connection and enough space to stand and move comfortably.
Orff-Schulwerk is a play-based approach to music education that develops musical understanding through singing, speech, movement, improvisation and play before formal notation.
No. Everything you experience can be adapted using your voice, body percussion, movement and simple classroom resources.
Reserve your place in the next live workshop
Free, live and interactive. No musical background needed.