ORFF SCHULWERK TEACHER EDUCATION LEVEL II

Catalog description

(Slashed with MUS 42346 and MUS 72346 )(Repeatable for credit) This course is designed to develop a teacher’s pedagogical skills, musicianship and creative potential by using the materials and procedures that are part of the active, experience-based Orff Schulwerk instructional and learning model. Orff Schulwerk represents a synthesis of music and movement, as developed within the three inter-related components of the course, namely the experiential, the conceptual and the pedagogical. Curricular content and sequence and development and application of basic skills in movement, speech, singing and instrumental skills unfold through joyous and interactive participation in music and movement activities. Level II is designed as an intermediate experience in Orff Schulwerk pedagogy and is appropriate for anyone who has completed level I at an American Orff Schulwerk Association (AOSA)-approved institution.