Engaging Middle & Senior Special Needs Students
Biddy Seymour
I will share a number of activities that my middle and senior students particularly enjoy. They will include positive songs, alternative instruments and movement. We will watch some video of students in action.
Tales from Asia: The clever Mousedeer and the Crocodile
Ginette Aitchison
Through the telling of the tale, participants will experience a Orff-inspired musical journey rich with Asian songs and activities.
Demystifying Notation
Marcelline Moody
To develop musically literate children we need to teach notation in a creative, hands-on way.
This workshop explores beat, and rhythmic and melodic notation through all the Orff media: kinesthetic, instrumental, speech, singing and also uses graphics, games and stories.
Supplying Support for Soaring Singers
Patricia Bowes
Delegates will participate in developing musical skills through combining methodologies of Orff, Kodaly, and Gordon's Music Learning Theory in the singing setting. Techniques of building audiation, inner hearing of melody, rhythm, harmonies, and improvisation will be provided using a variety of repertoire.
The Ear at the Heart of Eurhythmics
Sandra Nash
This workshop demonstrates some key features of a Dalcroze Solfege lesson, drawing attention to strategies also found in Rhythmic movement lessons. Participants will go on an aural and historical journey, and collect ideas for classroom.
Audiate, Sing, and Play: Steps to Success in OS
Julie Scott
Is it beneficial for children to "think" a melody before they sing it; or to sing a melody before they play it? These questions will be examined as we learn two pieces from the Murray edition of Music for Children, Vol I.