Community Archives - Teaching With Orff

What Is Elemental Music?

By Victoria Boler | March 16, 2023 |

For a deeper dive, click here to listen to this Elemental Conversation with Victoria Boler If you are like many music teachers out there you have probably heard the term Elemental Music before. You may have also wondered at some point in your life what that phrase means. It’s one of those things that we…

An Invitation to Reflect

By Crystal Pridmore | December 21, 2021 |

Crystal Pridmore invites you to participate in a journaling exercise to reflect on the past year in order to process and heal.

Making It Work: Relearning the Music Room

By LeslieAnne Bird | September 15, 2021 |

LeslieAnne Bird shares suggestions for refamiliarizing your students with making music together in your space.

Making It Work: Summer Reading 2021

By LeslieAnne Bird | June 10, 2021 |

LeslieAnne Bird sets aside time to read three teaching-related books each summer to learn something new and improve as a music educator and human. This is her list for 2021.

Inspiration from Fellow Music Educators

By Teaching With Orff | May 19, 2021 |

We wanted to share some inspiration for the end of the most difficult year ever from your fellow music educators.

Making It Work: Summer Orff Levels

By LeslieAnne Bird | April 28, 2021 |

Opportunities to create joyful music, make life-long friends, and become better facilitators are available throughout the country. Learn what to expect from each Orff Levels course.

Making It Work: Take it Outside, 2021

By LeslieAnne Bird | April 14, 2021 |

Now that the weather is warmer for just about everyone in the US, it is a great time to take music class outside! LeslieAnne Bird shares updated ideas for outdoor music class in 2021.

I Notice – I Wonder – I Value

By Carrie Barnette | March 31, 2021 |

AOSA Executive Director, Carrie Barnette, reflects on how teachers have adapted to new ways of making music with children and how AOSA has adjusted to support teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Transformative SEL in the Music Room

By Darlene Machacon | March 24, 2021 |

Darlene Machacon recognizes that tending to students’ mental health needs is more important now than ever. Events of the past year have amplified the inequities that have always existed in our systems, which has led to the definition of Transformative SEL.