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
Swoosh, Splash, Pow: Playing With Words
Explore the musical possibilities of onomatopoeia. Suggested activities include drawing, moving, creating, rhythm games, movement , playing unpitched percussion, writing poetry, and collaboration with other students.
In Unison: Music and Writing
Include writing and Common Core language arts standards in the music classroom while maintaining the integrity of your Orff Schulwerk curriculum.
Mud
Three- or five-part canon in common time. The lyrics about mud use delightfully descriptive words.
Focus on Kindergarten
A collection of Kindergarten classroom activities exploring different Orff media. Includes a list of favorite Kindergarten repertoire.
Collaborative and Proactive Solutions in the Classroom
Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (CPS) helps manage students with more significant behavioral difficulties. Includes examples and tips for using CPS to help with classroom management in the music setting.
Digging deeper into Elemental Music
Breaking down, analyzing, and adapting pieces from the Volumes by using stories and movement to help make the material accessible to his students. The author shares his adaptation of #13 from Ten Little Ostinato Pieces from Volume II, p. 44., and how his students use statue poses within the music to understand the meaning of quarter note rest.
Vamos a Jugar (or…La Oca Loca)
Children’s hand-clapping game from Mexico that reinforces steady beat.
Winter Website Wandering
Online resources for music, movement, lesson plans, and multicultural material.
Early Childhood: Planning for Little Learners
How to plan for and structure early childhood lessons that prepare the voice, ear and body for future music learning. Includes a sample lesson with welcome songs, finger plays, action songs, lap bounces, unpitched percussion, movement, folk dance, puppets, literature and a lullaby.
Body Percussion to Bucket Drumming… Exploring Rhythmische Ubung
Three approaches for combining body percussion and movement with bucket drumming using pieces from Rhythmische Ubung. Video demonstrations are provided.
A Principal’s Perspective on Performances
Ideas and best practices on how to make performances and programs work best from the perspective of an administrator.
Create Rubrics With On-line Help
Annotated list of online resources of creating classroom rubrics.