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
Funding During A Difficult Economy: Set Yourself Up for Success
There are many ways you can set yourself up for success to secure grants during a challenging economic time. This article shares ways to research funding sources and funding chains, forge relationships with local businesses, develop grant writing skills, create and/or edit common language statements often asked for on funding proposals, and cultivate a network of support.
Inspiration and Analysis Lead to Performance: Gumboot and Stepping
Collins shares how body percussion is part of African-American culture through a lesson on gumboot and stepping. The article includes a video model and extensive resources that support teachers in practicing cultural pluralism with authenticity and integrity.
Dancing With a Chair
An AOSA Movement Teacher shares an approach to choreographing creative dance in a small space. The lesson includes a video teaching model and student-created dance videos.
Socially Distant Dancing
Whether dancing from home or within a personal space in the classroom, creative adaptations allow children to engage in folk dance. Includes video models of adapted dances.
Cultural Reflexivity
Cultural reflexivity in our students and their families can lead us to be more reflexive about what and how we teach.
Orff Schulwerk from a Distance: Reflections from an Orff Educator in an Urban School
The author shares how he transitioned to teaching from a distance through a project to create a virtual choir. His video model shows that beautiful singing can happen while teaching remotely.
Creativity with (Digital) Rhythmic Building Bricks
Keetman’s Rhythmic Building Bricks and interactive technology combine to offer students creative exploration during online learning. Includes a tutorial video and template for creating Google Slides.
Connecting While Apart
This video model shares how a short piece from Music for Children, Volume 1 can become a springboard for learning across multiple grades.
Colorful Melody
With the help of play, the joy of learning that students (and teachers) experience through the Orff process continues whether we are working with our students through distance learning or in-person, socially-distant learning.
Channeling Mr. Rogers: Creating Neighborhoods of Care
Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood models how to use the medium of the screen to extend love to our students at a time when the parameters of a pandemic create barriers between teacher and student.
Autumn Themed Resources
This annotated list of children’s books, lesson ideas, and music for active listening, compiled from the AOSA Resource Library, will help you plan engaging lessons during the month of October.
Birthday Round
A canon to celebrate a birthday.