About Workshops

Each year, the Calgary Orff Chapter is proud to present three fantastic professional development workshops. Each clinician will explore different ways of incorporating the Orff Schulwerk method into your music classroom. 

New location! For the 2019-2020 Season, workshops will be held at Altadore School (4506 16 Street SW). They will run from 8:30 am - 1:30 pm. Doors will open at 8:00 am for registration and check-in. 

See Membership for registration details. 

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Upcoming Workshops

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.

Clinician Biography:
Jewel Casselman is the K-5 music specialist at Lakewood School in Winnipeg, MB. Jewel teaches using an Orff based program, running Orff and hand bell clubs, as well as choirs and various other groups. Jewel has completed her Post Baccalaureate and Master’s Degree in Education with a focus on the arts. She teaches the recorder component of the Levels courses through the University of Manitoba and is a regular Orff and recorder adjudicator with provincial festivals. She is currently the Program Chair of the Manitoba Orff Chapter. Jewel is very excited to be sharing her enthusiasm and excitement about the Orff approach with the Calgary Orff Chapter