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
Something Beautiful
This lesson idea, based on a picture book, is a lovely way to start the school year by reviewing music concepts while engaging children in social emotional learning.
The Rabbit Listened: Compassion and Collaboration
This article offers a “refresher course” on classroom collaboration as children also explore the feelings that they may have experienced during a prolonged pandemic.
School Drum Circles
Participation in a drum circle invites rhythmic choice and improvisation. As players experience the essential musical process of fitting their part into the greater whole, they develop important musicianship skills.
The Heart of Teaching Music: Social Emotional Learning
This video by Scott Edgar shares insights into meeting the emotional needs of children. This is topic is especially relevant as teachers plan lessons for a new school year while students – and those who nurture them – adjust to the challenges of a pandemic.
Let Music Surround You
A four-part canon about the joy of singing in harmony. Includes suggestion for movement canon.
Post Pandemic Planning
The author reflects on music as a “not-forever art” and how music teaching also changes to adapt to the challenges of the world around us. She encourages music educators to think of student needs and teacher needs as a new school year begins.
Voices of Experience – 2021
A voice from the past and another from the present offer words of wisdom as we rethink how we deliver instruction at the start of a new school year.
AOSA Independent Study Units: Professional Development to Fit Your Needs
AOSA Independent Study Units allow members to earn continuing education or graduate credit while working from home at your own pace.
Writing as Professional Development
Three AOSA members share how writing for AOSA publications helped them to grow in their profession.
Relief Is On the Way: Funding For Post-COVID Classrooms
The author explains how music teachers can use Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds to support professional development and purchase equipment to meets the needs of students as schools emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.
From the Classroom…Echoing Through the Years
Annotated list of “From the Classroom” articles from older issues of The Orff Echo. Each of these old articles shares a lesson idea that is still very current for your classroom.
We Belong Together! 2021 Professional Development Conference
Plan now to come to North Charleston, South Carolina, November 3-6, 2021 to celebrate TOGETHER with colleagues from across the country and around the world.