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
Elemental Movement: Playing with Positive and Negative Space
Explore movement concepts such as space, levels, pathways, time, range of motion and symmetry. Includes suggestions for music to accompany dances created by students.
Hadi Badi: Arabic Singing Game
Children’s singing game from Iran. Lesson idea Includes information on cultural context.
Name Games
A collection of name games for all ages collected by the Greater Chicago chapter.
Behind the Eyes of Children: Creative Questioning Strategies
Inquiry based teaching and thoughtful teacher questions help students become confident in the creative process.
Teaching Recorder as a Schulwerk Instrument
Present the recorder as an equal partner in the integrated media of Orff Schulwerk: a lesson that incorporates movement, exploration, creativity, improvisation, composition, body percussion and canon.
Summer Reading for Professional Growth
An annotated list of professional development books for Orff Schulwerk music teachers.
Two Rooster Canons
Two 3-part canons about roosters, both in duple meter; one is in Hebrew and the other in Spanish.
Tech Hacks
Simple ways to work with video, avoid ads, and simplify technology in your classroom.
Music Jam Concert
A process for organizing a fund raising concert that includes students, parent musicians and alumni.
Volumes as a Tool…Not the Rule
Two approaches to the Music for Children Volumes written by a “non-regular user:” building up each piece, and how to break it down. The examples include are Volume IV, p. 123, and Volume V p. 81.
Principally Speaking: Making Sense of Top-Down Directives
An elementary school administrator offers suggestions for positive ways to address directives that may not be applicable to the music classroom.
Songs for Graduation or Culmination
The North Texas AOSA Chapter shares a list of songs (and accompanying YouTube links) that work well for graduation or culmination.