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
Play, Imitate, Explore, and Compose with Song Maker
Technology can provide a way for students to explore musical concepts, learned through group process, and use them in new, individually created compositions.
AOSA Approved Teacher Educators: Who Are They and How Did They Get There?
The AOSA Professional Development Director explains the process for becoming an AOSA approved Teacher Educator.
Informances: Advocacy at its Best
The author offers a model for “informances,” informal performances that allow teachers to share the learning process in an Orff Schwulerk based curriculum while giving parents/care-givers an opportunity to participate in music and movement with their children.
Holi: Indian Spring Festival of Colors
Spring is welcomed in India with Holi, the festival of colors. This article shares background on the holiday and Indian music along with a Holi song that can be accompanied with a traditional rhythmic ostinato. Also included are traditional dance steps that allow students to choreograph their own dance to accompany the song.
Ukrainian Children’s Songs and Games
The language of music is shared even in times of war. These songs were shared by a Ukrainian music educator while living through the horrors of war in her country. Includes a set of Google slides with resources about Ukrain and its music and culture.
Call Down a Blessing
As she departs her leadership role as AOSA Executive Director, Carrie Barnette reflects on her experiences through a choral setting of a text that was often sung at the conclusion of meetings of the National Board of Trustees.
Picture Books for Social/Emotional Learning
Children’s picture books, reviewed in the Orff Echo, provide a way to help children address social/emotional learning through music and movement exploration.
Building Instructional Systems to Strengthen Classroom Community
The author offers a model for rotating students through instruments that builds classroom community while allowing each child to have a turn.
African American Singing Games
The author discusses using primary sources as a way to learn authentic songs and singing games. Includes a couple of authentically sourced traditional Black American singing games.
Play Parties
The author, himself a “song catcher,” discusses using primary sources as a way to learn authentic songs and singing games. Includes resources for authentically collected American play parties.
Keetman Canons for Rhythmic Training
Experience, review, and practice beat competency and ensemble rhythmic unity using Keeman’s canons from Music for Children, Volume 1.
New Year’s Wish
A four part canon with a New Year’s wish for peace and joy and happiness.