April 2020 Updates
Please see our latest newsletter for updates regarding:
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- Level 1 Cancellation (MRU, Summer 2020)
- Cancelled March 2020 Workshop (Single Workshop Registrations and Subscription Members)
- 2020-2021 Workshop Series
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What is the Calgary Orff Chapter?
The Calgary Orff Chapter is a chapter of Carl Orff Canada and is dedicated to providing high quality professional development opportunities for music teachers. Through our workshops and courses we aim to help improve the quality of music education in both Calgary and the surrounding areas.
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Music Sequence and Progression
Through Primary Grades
Presented by Jewel Casselman
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Workshop Description:
Building the foundations for learning in the elementary classroom is important for life long learning in music. This workshop will focus on fun activities, games, and songs from kindergarten to upper elementary. Beginning with keeping the beat and ending with incorporating the recorder into your classroom you will come away with many activities to use in your classroom. Come out prepared to play, create, sing, and move. Please wear comfortable clothes for moving and bring a soprano recorder.
For more information, please see Chapter Workshops.
Through Primary Grades
Presented by Jewel Casselman
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Workshop Description:
Building the foundations for learning in the elementary classroom is important for life long learning in music. This workshop will focus on fun activities, games, and songs from kindergarten to upper elementary. Beginning with keeping the beat and ending with incorporating the recorder into your classroom you will come away with many activities to use in your classroom. Come out prepared to play, create, sing, and move. Please wear comfortable clothes for moving and bring a soprano recorder.
For more information, please see Chapter Workshops.
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Carl Orff Canada’s new Mentorship Program* offers additional support to educators who have engaged in Orff training, and assists them in linking the pedagogy of the Orff process with the realities of individual teaching situations. Educators experienced in the Orff process will partner with a teacher who is new to the Orff process to co-create an individualized mentorship program, meeting the mentee’s needs in developing their practice, deepening their understanding of Orff pedagogy, refining their artistic intentions and developing their teaching style and profile. Direct and consistent communication will occur between mentor and mentee, using a wide variety of platforms (including online and face-to-face).
If this sounds like something that you’ve been looking for, please go to the COC website, Members Only, P & P, Section R for more information, including an application form, or contact Liz Kristjanson, Mentorship Committee, Chair at past-president@orffcanada.ca. *The new Mentorship Program is not to be confused with the Levels Course Instructor Internship Program, formerly known as the Mentorship Program. |
What is Orff Schulwerk?
Orff Schulwerk, an approach to music education developed by Carl Orff, is experiential and holistic and is for all types of learners, aural, visual and kinesthetic. In Orff Schulwerk, children learn in an active way, where imitation and exploration lead to improvisation and music literacy. Speech, song, movement and instruments are the vehicles used to teach rhythm, melody, form, harmony and timbre. Carl Orff defined the ideal music for children as “never music alone, but music connected with movement, dance, and speech – not to be [merely] listened to, meaningful only in active participation.”
Orff Schulwek is built on the idea that a child must be able to feel and make rhythms and melodies before being called on to read and write music. Orff believed that a child internalized and developed ownership of a concept by experiencing the concept before it is put into words. “Experience first, intellectualize second.” In the same way that a child learns to speak before learning to read and write, he or she must have a musical language in which to feel at home before technical knowledge is introduced.
Through pitched and non-pitched percussion instruments, movement, games, singing, and rhythmic exploration, the child learns of his own innate musical talents in a way that is immediately successful and rewarding.
Orff Schulwek is built on the idea that a child must be able to feel and make rhythms and melodies before being called on to read and write music. Orff believed that a child internalized and developed ownership of a concept by experiencing the concept before it is put into words. “Experience first, intellectualize second.” In the same way that a child learns to speak before learning to read and write, he or she must have a musical language in which to feel at home before technical knowledge is introduced.
Through pitched and non-pitched percussion instruments, movement, games, singing, and rhythmic exploration, the child learns of his own innate musical talents in a way that is immediately successful and rewarding.
