Reverberations: Teachers Teaching Teachers is a weekly, online publication available to members that publishes models of best practice from Orff Schulwerk classrooms in the form of lesson ideas, student-tested teaching strategies, articles related to classroom applications, and more.
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List of Reverberations Articles
Online Professional Development: Summer is a Time to Grow
New topics and units about deeper ways to extend Orff Schulwerk into the classroom have been added to our collection of Independent Study Units.
Portrait of the Music Teacher as an Energy Crisis
This reprint from a Winter 1974 issue of The Orff Echo is as relevant today as it was in the very early days of AOSA. Many teachers still work with limited resources and yet touch the hearts and spirits of children through the Schulwerk in unlimited ways.
Counting the Days
Student-tested teaching suggestions for the last weeks of the school year. Includes opportunities to celebrate student accomplishments, ways to take learning outside, a project-based learning experience, and more.
Canons for Fun
A collection of canons with fun lyrics…to sing just for the fun of it!
¡Viva! 2023 Professional Development Conference
Read about featured presenters and special events at the 2023 AOSA Professional Development Conference in Albuquerque, NM. Plan now to attend…the fun starts on November 1!
New Beginnings
Our new AOSA Executive Director reflects upon her retirement from the classroom as she prepares to work full-time to insure that AOSA serves the needs of teachers.
Making the Case for Orff Schulwerk
A new advocacy tool will help you to make the case for why Orff Schulwerk is a critical part of a child’s education.
Choose Your Own Adventure
This article models a way to work with a picture book that offers multiple creative pathways inspired by the story. These explorations can be separate lessons, or the children may choose to combine their creations into a student created performance.
Orff Schulwerk: More Than Pentatonic and Why Completing Levels II and III Matter
The AOSA Professional Development Director writes about why it is important for teachers to continue AOSA Teacher Education professional development beyond Level I to nurture “a deeper understanding of the Schulwerk while extending the spectrum of outcomes and classroom applications.”
Tech Tips for Music Teachers
Tech tips for an Orff Schulwerk based classroom. These applications make it easy to transpose, change tempo, mirror video images, and more.
A foot in each world: Part 1 – A Letter to My Peers as a modern Diné Music Educator
An open letter from an Indigenous American music educator to her colleagues. She explains why traditional Indigenous songs do not belong in your classroom and states, “To respect this boundary is to truly honor Indigenous Americans, our cultures, and our histories.”
A Foot in Each World: Part 2 – Exploring Ways to Integrate Indigenous Cultures in Music Education
Part 1 of this set of articles explains why traditional Indigenous songs do not belong
in your classroom. This article shares ways to honor the culture and offer students a way to learn more about Indigenous American peoples and traditions.