Please note date change from earlier postings: our final workshop for the school year is MARCH 9.

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Greater Cincinnati AOSA Winter 2013 Newsletter

Arvida Steen Workshop Series

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Chapter Workshops 2012-2013

All workshops run from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Registration begins at 8:30.

September 22, 2012 -

James Harding (San Francisco, CA) – Elemental Adventures

An Orff-Schulwerk classroom is a place of discovery, where children learn through active play with the elements of music and movement. In this workshop we will enter the world of rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamic, timbre, and form through the doorways of rhythmic speech, songs, games, dances, creative movement and play with simple props.

James Harding is in his 21st year of teaching music to children. He teaches at the San Francisco School with longtime colleagues Doug Goodkin and Sofia Lopez-Ibor, and the unique Orff-Schulwerk based program which they have developed for children from pre-school to middle school there has achieved international recognition. James is a graduate of Yale University and also studied music at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. He has presented workshops throughout the United States and internationally in Canada, Australia, Thailand, Finland, Estonia, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina and has been a guest teacher at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria.
James is the author of the soon-to-be published “From Wibbleton to Wobbleton,” (Pentatonic Press, 2013) a collection of music and movement lesson ideas inspired by children’s rhymes.

October 20, 2012 –

Arvida Steen/Jay Broeker (Minneapolis, MN) – Framing Teaching for Orff Teachers: Tools To Organize Your Lessons Part I

This workshop taken along with the March, Part II and additional small group meeting times is available for one graduate credit hour through Miami University. It will also be valuable as a self-contained Saturday workshop.

Arvida Steen taught pre-school through grade 5 at The Blake School in Hopkins, MN using a curriculum designed to enhance the Orff Schulwerk approach. During the summers she taught Curriculum Development at St. Thomas University in St. Paul, MN and the University of Kentucky. She has presented to many chapters and at AOSA conferences. She has contributed to the American edition of Music for Children and authored Exploring Orff, a Teacher’s Guide.

Jay Broeker’s teaching experience spans preschool through college programs. He is currently on the faculty of The Blake School in Hopkins, Minnesota, where he teaches general music for grades K-5. Jay has been a music teacher at schools in Texas, Indiana, and Oklahoma, and 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.
Mr. Broeker holds Kodály and Orff Schulwerk certification, and is a frequent clinician for national and state music education organizations. During the summer he is an instructor in music teacher training courses at theUniversity of Kentucky in Lexington, and the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

February 2, 2013 -

Chapter Sharing - College Hill Academy Stick Band, Presentations by Local Experts, Advocacy Tools

March 9, 2013 -

Arvida Steen (Minneapolis, MN) – Framing Teaching for Orff Teachers: Tools To Organize Your Lessons Part 2

The Greater Cincinnati Chapter of AOSA seeks

to provide teachers with inservice

training to master the goals of AOSA

through workshops featuring

outstanding national and

local presenters throughout the year.

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