The Los Angeles County Orff Teacher Education Course
New 2021 Dates: June, 21-July 2, 2021
Pasadena Conservatory of Music, Pasadena, CA
Pasadena Conservatory of Music, Pasadena, CA
Although there is growing reason for optimism regarding the Covid-19 pandemic and availability of vaccines in Southern California, we have determined that the safest course for us is to postpone in-person Orff levels training for another summer. We expect to resume Orff training Levels I, II and III in Summer, 2022.
For 2021 we are very excited to offer once again some extraordinary distance learning classes with your LAC Orff instructors, Patrick Ware, Kerri Lynn Nichols, Richard Lawton, Mika Inouye, and the newest addition to the faculty, Cyndee Giebler.
All courses will be held at the end of June. Full descriptions, as well as tuition and scholarship information, will posted here very shortly, so check back or contact our Course Director Rachael Doudrick at rdoudrick@pasadenaconservatory.org for more information.
Here's a little video from last summer's online recorder course, Jam Along. Enjoy!
For 2021 we are very excited to offer once again some extraordinary distance learning classes with your LAC Orff instructors, Patrick Ware, Kerri Lynn Nichols, Richard Lawton, Mika Inouye, and the newest addition to the faculty, Cyndee Giebler.
All courses will be held at the end of June. Full descriptions, as well as tuition and scholarship information, will posted here very shortly, so check back or contact our Course Director Rachael Doudrick at rdoudrick@pasadenaconservatory.org for more information.
Here's a little video from last summer's online recorder course, Jam Along. Enjoy!
What is Orff Schulwerk Levels Training?
"Orff levels" are the primary way in which the philosophy and instructional practices of Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman are taught to music educators in the United States. The AOSA-NBT curriculum standards describe the first task of Orff levels instruction to be familiarizing participants with an exploratory learning approach in part “by experiencing music learning from the perspective of children.”* In Orff, musical understanding is developed through creative play, peer collaboration, and, above all, joyful music-making where, more often than not, children are the composers.
The goal of levels training is to first introduce (in level I) and then develop (in level I and II) strategies and techniques to construct musical understanding through experience. In this way the Orff Schulwerk method is aligned with the creative, problem-solving approach at the heart of our National Education Standards in language and math, as well as the arts.
* From “What is Orff Schulwerk Teacher Education” © 2012, The American Orff Schulwerk Association