What you are going to learn
- 1. With any piece of literature there are any number of concepts and skills that you can teach or practice?
- 2. With any concept or skill there are any number of pathways to support student learning?
- 3. we will look at diverse ways for growing your students’ capacity to make artful choices in their own creative process?
Course description
Overview
At any given moment in the Orff Schulwerk classroom there are multiple directions that good teaching process can take you. With any piece of literature there are any number of concepts and skills that you can teach or practice. With any concept or skill there are any number of pathways to support student learning. How do you manage all of these possibilities? In the active workshop we not only experience lessons that guarantee success on the daily level, but we elevate our vantage point and look at some of the big ideas. What do you value most in your classroom? Are you using your teaching time in a way that truly reflects your values? Are your choices in learning activities and concepts covered reflective of what you say you value most?
Simultaneously, we will look at diverse ways for growing your students’ capacity to make artful choices in their own creative process. We may not come up with answers to all the big questions, but we will spend a day courageously swimming in the possibilities and gaining clarity and direction for the future.
Dress comfortably for movement and bring your soprano recorder.
Target Audience:
This workshop is designed for Music Teachers.
Agenda (Saturday, Oct 26th, 2024)
08:00-08:30 |
Registration |
08:30 - 10:00 (1.5hs) |
Session 1 |
10:00 – 10:30 |
Refreshment Break |
10:30 - 12:00(1.5hs) |
Session 2 |
12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch + School tour (optional) |
13:30 - 14:30 (1.5hs) |
Session 3 |
14:30 - 15:00 |
Refreshment Break |
15:00 - 16:30 (1.5hs) |
Session 4 |
16:30 - 18:00 |
Social Evening |
Presenter Biography – Roger Sams
Roger Sams retired from the music classroom in 2013 after 31 years of teaching music in public and private schools. He has served as adjunct faculty, teaching methods courses and supervising student teachers at Cleveland State University and has been on the faculty in teacher education programs at the University of St. Thomas, Cleveland State University, Akron University, Texas A&M University—Kingsville, the University of Montana, University of Missouri-St. Louis, VanderCook College of Music, the Portland OR Orff course, and other venues throughout the US. Roger is a regular presenter at state, regional, national, and international conferences and has served on the AOSA National Board of Trustees. He has worked with teachers and children in Canada, China, Croatia, Indonesia, India, Kenya, Poland, Scotland, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Vietnam, and throughout the US.
Trained in Gestalt therapy, Roger works with the power of choice in the artistic process, pedagogy, and in life. He is the co-author of Purposeful Pathways: Possibilities for the Elementary Music Classroom, Percussive Play, and Elemental Ukulele, and has published works for children’s choirs in the Crooked River Choral Project series.
Registration Fee: 800 RMB (120USD) per participant
Refund Policy:
• Refunds for the workshop may only be issued if cancelled by the Workshop leader(for reasons beyond her control) and we failed to find a suitable time for most of participants; or registered participant informs IES he/she is able to show up before 10/10/2024；
• If there is insufficient registration before 10/10/2024 the IES will inform participants of the cancellation and refund the actual paid registration fee only.
Certificate: E-certificate signed by Roger Sams will be issued 5 days after the workshop.
