This course will enable participants to build a Schulwerk-based curriculum for their specific teaching assignments. Long-term planning and weekly process lesson planning are addressed. Teachers share ideas and teach lessons utilizing the Orff process. Levels I and II Orff training at an accredited program are required to enroll in this course.

For Credit: $970 for two hours of graduate credit. You pay $100 at the time of registration, and the balance is charged to you by Student Accounts.

No Credit: $750 (No graduate credit). The full cost of the course is due electronically at the time of registration.

An on-campus materials fee of $30 will be added for this course

This virtual course will focus on the intricacies of grant writing and overall funding for the music educator while tailoring itself to each individual’s needs for funding. Participants will have opportunities to locate funding sources, examine common expectations in proposal requests, create and/or modify pivotal statements that are generally requested in proposals, and establish personal objectives for proposal completion. Students will meet synchronously from 8:30-11:30 a.m. EST each day.

For Credit: $485 for one hour of graduate credit. You pay $100 at the time of registration, and the balance is charged to you by Student Accounts.

No Credit: $360 (No graduate credit). The full cost of the course is due electronically at the time of registration.

The ukulele is a sought-after addition in the elementary music classroom. Its accessibility makes the ukulele a new and exciting way for students to create and participate in music-making. Participants will use a teaching sequence that utilizes universal design, constructivist philosophies of knowledge building, and the Orff Approach while acknowledging the intersections of the ukulele’s historical and classroom context. Strategies are presented to be ready for class use, while also studying underlying concepts that enable the design of a successful lesson sequence independently.

Designed for teachers of all ability and experience (much like our students) this professional development experience seeks to connect established pedagogical knowledge and the ukulele. Explore how to teach the ukulele while also learning how to play the ukulele. More than just a presentation of activities, this clinic aims to facilitate professional development discussion that is meaningful and valuable in teacher development.

The class will meet synchronously from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. EST each day.  Students will also attend a 30-minute private lesson sometime during the week.

For Credit: $485 for one hour of graduate credit. You pay $100 at the time of registration, and the balance is charged to you by Student Accounts.

No Credit: $360 (No graduate credit). The full cost of the course is due electronically at the time of registration.

Participants will be actively engaged in music-making through movement—connecting the brain to the body, singing, and improvisation. While this workshop is primarily for the general music classroom, transfers will be made for the choral and instrumental classrooms as well. Handouts and additional examples will help teachers take these ideas to their classrooms. Please come wearing loose, comfortable clothing, jazz shoes, or bare feet, and be ready to feel the joy of music.

For Credit: $970 for two hours of graduate credit. You pay $100 at the time of registration, and the balance is charged to you by Student Accounts.

No Credit: $750 (No graduate credit). The full cost of the course is due electronically at the time of registration.

An on-campus materials fee of $30 will be added for this course.

World Music Drumming is a sequential student-centered curriculum that engages learners through hands-on experiential learning. Using keywords such as “respect, listen, complement, cooperation, and teamwork,” lessons are designed to build upon skills taught and reinforced, with each unit culminating in an ensemble and song. Teachers familiar with Orff-Schulwerk process will recognize many complementary ideas in the approach of this remarkable curriculum. In addition to introducing applications of World Music Drumming to participants, we will explore ways to create a rich and diverse music experience for your students by combining drumming with Orff instruments, recorders, movement, and ukuleles.  This is a hands-on participatory session. No previous Orff-Schulwerk or World Music Drumming experience is required.

For Credit: $485 for one hour of graduate credit. You pay $100 at the time of registration, and the balance is charged to you by Student Accounts.

No Credit: $360 (No graduate credit). The full cost of the course is due electronically at the time of registration.

An on-campus materials fee of $30 will be added for this course.

Participants will sing, play, move, and improvise using the Orff Schulwerk model. Each level includes classes in pedagogy, movement, recorder, ensemble, and special topics. This approach is based on active learning and developing creative skills in children. These courses are approved by the American Orff-Schulwerk Association. 

• Level I — This course is open to all music teachers and senior undergraduate music education students.
• Level II — At least one year of teaching experience is required before taking Level II. If you completed Level I prior to 2017, you will need to re-take Level I.

For Credit: $1,455 for three hours of graduate credit. You pay $100 at the time of registration, and the balance is charged to you by Student Accounts.

No Credit: $1,065 (No graduate credit) The full cost of the course is due electronically at the time of registration.

An on-campus materials fee of $30 will be added for this course.

“Gestalt” means wholeness. A gestalt approach to change recognizes that the whole is more than the sum of the parts. Orff Schulwerk teaching, at its best, comes from a place of wholeness. In this course, we examine the ways in which an Orff classroom is a place for children to experience, if even just for a moment, their wholeness in the midst of their demanding lives and a broken world. Simultaneously, we will heighten our awareness as to how this generative approach to teaching impacts the teacher, creating movement toward wholeness. This course will be life-changing. There is no pre-requisite for this course.

For Credit: $970 for two hours of graduate credit. You pay $100 at the time of registration, and the balance is charged to you by Student Accounts.

No Credit: $750 (No graduate credit). The full cost of the course is due electronically at the time of registration.

An on-campus materials fee of $30 will be added for this course.

Over the course of this five-day master class, participants will develop their understanding of the elemental style through the creation of original pieces based on the models in the Music for Children volumes. The class will include a review of the basics of elemental music (drone, melodic ostinato, rhythmic ostinato, speech ostinato, etc.). By the end of the week, participants will have composed in diatonic and pentatonic modes, in multiple meters, and using functional harmony. Levels I and II Orff training at an accredited program are required to enroll in this course.

For Credit: $970 for two hours of graduate credit. You pay $100 at the time of registration, and the balance is charged to you by Student Accounts.

No Credit: $750 (No graduate credit). The full cost of the course is due electronically at the time of registration.

An on-campus materials fee of $30 will be added for this course.