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All About Orff Schulwerk

2026 Summer Orff Levels

Learn all about taking Summer Orff Levels and hear your colleagues' insights about this transformative professional development experience.
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AOSA

The Summer That Saved My Teaching Career

Summer Orff courses offer music educators an immersive, joyful experience that rekindles inspiration, builds confidence, and creates space for teachers to grow musically together. Whether you're brand new to Orff or simply curious, AOSA summer courses and local chapters are where lifelong teaching journeys begin.
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Orff Levels

Orff Levels: Post-Level III

Have you taken all three Orff levels and don't know what to do next? Scott Roether has you covered with ideas to keep growing and learning in the Schulwerk.
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Somebody. Who? You!

Karen Benson shares a speech piece she composed that demonstrates how that same selection would look in Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 of AOSA Teacher Education Levels Courses. We would love to see YOU at a level this summer!
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Orff Levels UMSL

Summer Orff Levels 2023

Are you considering taking an Orff Levels course this summer? Your colleagues share their insights about this transformative professional development experience.
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What Is Elemental Music?

It's one of those things that we hear thrown around at workshops at clinics at conferences… and even when people stop to explain what Elemental Music is, sometimes that definition can still feel fuzzy. So is this question is very simply ….. What is Elemental Music?
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Orff Levels UMSL

Making It Work: Summer Orff Levels

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.
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I Notice I Wonder I Value

I Notice – I Wonder – I Value

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.
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found sound

Facilitating Drum Circles for Healing with Children

Our students need human connection now more than ever. K Michelle Lewis explores how drum circles can help meet children’s social and emotional needs.
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modern band

Making It Work: Orff Schulwerk and Modern Band

Martina Vasil discusses how teaching and learning processes found in modern band classrooms parallel many aspects of the Orff-Schulwerk approach
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Music Learning Theory & Orff Schulwerk

Joan Eckroth-Riley and Wendy van Gent discuss the integration of Music Learning Theory with Orff Schulwerk
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Orff Levels UMSL

Making It Work: Orff Level III

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