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
Teaching Without Contact
How do we keep the energy of the Orff Schulwerk alive for children when they cannot/should not touch? How can we keep children singing, moving, and playing if the lesson must be done online because children cannot come to school?
Creating Virtual Music Class Content – A Quick Start Guide
Step-by-step process for creating virtual content classroom videos shared by a professional. Includes a video tutorial.
My Heart Goes Thump!
A little speech piece offers many opportunities for creative play. Great for Valentine’s Day lessons.
The DanceMaker App
This app facilitates creative movement and choreography. It supports Laban Movement Analysis of Body, Effort, Space, and Relationship.
Early Childhood Is For Exploring
The author describes the wonder that very young children bring to the classroom as well as the challenges of teaching this age group. The article includes an activity that allows children to explore the physical space they are in as well as the human interactions created when moving through shared space as they learn to “make a shape.”
Speaking Volumes
Two teachers share ways they use the Music for Children volumes with their students. Includes a chart of pieces with suggestions for process and creative play.
Cognitive Apprenticeship in Practice
The article describes cognitive apprenticeship as an instructional design choice for the Orff-inspired classroom. The six cognitive apprenticeship techniques highlighted are modeling, exploring, scaffolding, coaching, articulating, and reflecting.
Sing in a New Year: Ring it In!
A versatile 4-part canon with classroom applications to explore in January and beyond.
Learning to Collaborate – Collaborating to Learn
Collaboration and creative tasks play an important part of the teaching and learning process in an Orff Schulwerk classroom. Empathy, resiliency, flexibility and the ability to create iterations are key lifelong skills for our students as they journey through childhood and into adulthood.
Commuter Courses Build Community
District sponsored AOSA approved teacher education courses offer an alternative to residential courses. In this article, two course directors discuss the ways in which locally sponsored teacher education has increased support for Orff Schulwerk in their communities.
I Am Yoga: Movement and Mindfulness
Using a picture book and BrainDance, this lesson helps students become calm and mindful through creative movement.
Mindfulness With Older Children
Mindfulness addresses social/emotional needs of children and helps older students focus in the classroom.