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
Interactive Technology in the Music Room
Three interactive whiteboard (IWB) and iPad ideas that can be used to develop the 21st century skills of Critical thinking, Collaboration, Creativity, and Communication.
Bird Songs: Recorder is for the Birds!
Explore using the recorder in traditional and non-traditional ways to improvise and create bird songs. Children’s literature, audio recordings, bird guides (both low-tech and high-tech), movement and recorder exploration lead to a performance of bird songs.
Welcome Friends
Ring in the New Year with a welcome canon sung in four-parts.
Ding Dong Diggi-diggi-dongle: Essential Connectors for Digital Devices
How to have the connections you need to sure technology works when you travel. Technology is a fantastic tool to have – but it changes everywhere we go. Digital devices, presenting, traveling teacher, flash drive, adapters, digital music, be prepared!
Games From Ghana
Two singing games from Ghana along with ideas for imitation, rhythmic play, creative movement and instruments.
Communicating with Parents, School Communities, and Administrators About Students’ Development of 21st Century Skills in Music Class
High-quality music education contributes to a student’s readiness for the 21st century. The challenge remains: How do we communicate the ways in which students’ musical learning readies them for their lives in the 21st Century world?
Surviving Open House
Ideas for how to manage visiting parents and children to the music room during open house.
A Blog in my Classroom… …my Classroom on a Blog!
Create a classroom blog to help with communication, community outreach, world outreach, taking school-work home to parents, and rehearsal techniques.
The Museum: A Movement Lesson
A creative movement lesson for primary students based on a picture book. Students mirror body poses, study the movement in the story, list movement vocabulary, dance and then create their own art to inspire additional movement.
Old Woman From Pride
Four-part canon in triple meter; based on an limerick.
Encourage Courage in Creativity
Reflection is a powerful tool to help students gain confidence in improvisation. Includes suggestions for bulletin board word walls that encourage student reflection on creative process.
Change of Seasons: From Summer “Recharge” to Fall “In Charge”
Is bringing Orff Schulwerk into a music classroom is a relatively new experience for you? Here are a few thoughts as you make the transition from an adult-centered OS experience to a child-centered OS practice.