Course Descriptions

Orange County Tuition & Schedule

American Orff Schulwerk Association

The Orange County Chapter of AOSA

Registration Information

Registration Form (downloadable)

Chapman  College of Performing Arts Home Page
 

Orff-Schulwerk is concerned with the development of the whole child . . . It is an innovative approach to music education based on the ways in which children naturally communicate: through sound, using their voices to speak, chant, and sing, and through their bodies to move and dance.

Join the growing number of educators moving toward active music education in the classroom.  Learn to teach musical skills through the imaginative use of poetry, children’s literature, folk songs, pitched and non-pitched instruments, creative movement and drama.  Explore student-tested materials, practicing yourself in a "safe learning environment" with A.O.S.A.-approved instructors who use the Orff process in the classroom "now".  Based on the teachings of Carl Orff, instruction includes: basic pedagogy, movement, recorder and special topics.

In taking this program you will:

• Leave with a comprehensive resource book to use in a K-6 general music curriculum
• Gain renewed vitality in teaching
• Feel more confident teaching the elements of music in a process - oriented program
• Discover how movement/dance and playing instruments can combine with singing and chanting to create a multimedia approach that is enormously successful
• Receive a certificate upon successful completion of course
• Earn 4 semester credits from Chapman University upon successful completion (62.5 instructional hours = 4 semester credits)