The Los Angeles County Orff Teacher Education Course

Next Year's Dates: July, 20-July 31, 2020 
Levels I, II, III
Pasadena Conservatory of Music, Pasadena, CA

The 2019  Los Angeles County Orff 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 dates for the 2020 course will be July 20-July 31.  The 2020 course will be held at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music and we will be offering Levels I, II, and III.  

​Registration for the 2020 course will open on this page in February.   For additional information please contact 
Course Director Rachael Doudrick at rdoudrick@pasadenaconservatory.org. 

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