The Los Angeles County Orff Teacher Education Course

Next Year's Dates: July, 19-July 30, 2020
Levels I, II, III
Pasadena Conservatory of Music, Pasadena, CA

The 2020  Los Angeles County Orff Online Teacher Education Course has been completed.  LACAOSA would like to thank all the teachers and instructors who made this summer's course a success!

The plan now will be to hold 2021 level course in person, July 19-July 30, and to offer Levels I, II, and III.  Of course, that is contingent on the ongoing Covid-19 health crisis, which we will be monitoring closely.  The safety of our students and teachers comes first. 

Updates will be posted here in the coming months.  The most current information can be obtained by contacting.
Course Director Rachael Doudrick at rdoudrick@pasadenaconservatory.org. 

Here's a little video from our online recorder course, Jam Along.  Have a great year everybody!

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