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Welcome to the North Texas Chapter of the American Orff Schulwerk Association!

What is Orff Schulwerk?   It is a music education approach in which students are guided through a process of musical development using speech, singing, moving, and playing instruments as learning tools.   Composer Carl Orff and his associate Gunild Keetman evolved the philosophy and processes of this unique approach, which places much importance on improvisation and creation.

The North Texas Chapter is a group of over 150 music instructors, mostly in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, who use this approach in their classrooms and studios.  We provide Saturday workshops with nationally known Orff Schulwerk clinicians to present methods for using the Orff-Schulwerk process with students of all ages.

We are delighted that you have found your way to this website, and we invite you to join us for our upcoming workshops!


 

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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

September 11, 2010 - Jay Broeker

"The Creative Classroom" - This workshop provides procedural models and sample materials for developing students' musical understanding through a variety of Orff Schulwerk media and experiences. Workshop activities will include sequential experiences for eliciting and structuring students' creative responses as well as models for helping students and teachers assess the musical understanding inherent in each product or experience.

Jay Broeker's teaching experience spans preschool through college programs. A graduate of Indiana University, Jay has been a music teacher at schools in Texas, Indiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. He was on the faculty at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, where he taught courses in music education and aural skills and accompanied the Westminster College Choirs. His commissioned choral works have been performed by OAKE National and ACDA Regional Honor Choirs, Oklahoma and Ohio All-State Children's Choirs, and the Westminster College and University of St. Thomas choirs.

Mr. Broeker holds both Kodály and Orff Schulwerk certification, and is a frequent clinician for national and state music education organizations. He currently serves as President of the Minnesota Orff Chapter of AOSA. During the summer he is an instructor in music teacher training courses at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Mr. Broeker is currently on the faculty of The Blake School in Hopkins, Minnesota, where he teaches general music in grades K - 5. His choral arrangements are published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing and by Boosey & Hawkes.

 

January 29, 2011 - Sara McCall

 

April 2, 2011 - Cindy Hall

Orff Schulwerk: Playing with a Purpose - Cindy Hall will present active Orff Schulwerk lessons with an emphasis on melodic and rhythmic curriculum concepts. Using poetry, folk song, drama, instrumental pieces, and movement, participants will work through the process of imitation, exploration, and improvisation. Please bring a soprano recorder.

Cindy Hall teaches Orff certification courses at The University of St. Thomas and the University of Kentucky and is an active conference and workshop clinician. She has taught music to children in public and private schools, directed an after school arts program, and conducted church children’s choirs. She served as a contributing writer of recorder materials for the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill series, Share the Music. Ms. Hall holds a BA in Music from Duke University, MA in Music Education from the University of Oklahoma, and Orff Certification from Memphis State University and Hamline University. She currently teaches first through fifth grade music and chorus at Rowland Hall- St. Mark’s School in Salt Lake City.

 

March 31, 2012 - Roger Sams


 

WORKSHOP INFORMATION

Workshops are held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. with registration beginning at 8:30.

CHILD CARE will be offered this year for $20 per child for the day, excluding lunch.

Site:  Highland Park Middle School - 3555 Granada, Dallas, TX 75205  (located near SMU) 

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Cost:  $10 chapter dues (once a year) plus $25-$30 fee per workshop

For a printable Registration form, click here.


 

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