PAST WORKSHOPS
2017-2018
- September 22, 2018 - “The Core of a Creative Classroom” by Jennifer Donovan, Baton Rouge, LA
- August 4, 2018 - "A Potful of Surprises" by Katie Beth Traxler & Danai Gagne, Baton Rouge, LA
- April 7, 2018 - "We Got the Jazz" by Doug Goodkin, New Orleans, LA
- March 2018 - "Arts Integration" Chapter Share by Red Stick Orff Educators, Baton Rouge, LA
- February 23, 2018 - "Stepping Stones for Successful Teaching" by Marie Blaney at LSU Baton Rouge, LA
- November 8-11, 2017 - National ORFF Conference in Ft. Worth, TX
- November 16-20, 2017 - Louisiana Music Educators Association Conference in Baton Rouge, LA
- September 16, 2017 - "In Tune with Technology" by Juliette de Silva in Baton Rouge, LA
- July 29, 2017 - "Hands to Hands" by Aimee Curtis Pfitzner in Hammond, LA
- February 4, 2017 - "Fishing Through the Standards" by Ellen Sweetman in Hammond, LA
Details of Past Workshops
"The Core of a Creative Classroom"
Presented by: Jennifer Donovan
September 22, 2018
Jennifer Donovan teaches at Clear Creek Elementary School in Shawnee, Kansas. She is a past president of the Kansas Orff Chapter and has served on the AOSA National Board of Trustees as Region III Representative and Treasurer and was the National Conference Chair for the 2016 AOSA Conference in Atlantic City. She was on the 2009 Kansas Teacher of the Year team and is currently serving on the 2018 Kansas Teacher of the Year team. She was the 2012 recipient of the World Village Wildcard scholarship and attended the JaSeSoiRy WorldVillage in Valkeala, Finland.
Presented by: Jennifer Donovan
September 22, 2018
Jennifer Donovan teaches at Clear Creek Elementary School in Shawnee, Kansas. She is a past president of the Kansas Orff Chapter and has served on the AOSA National Board of Trustees as Region III Representative and Treasurer and was the National Conference Chair for the 2016 AOSA Conference in Atlantic City. She was on the 2009 Kansas Teacher of the Year team and is currently serving on the 2018 Kansas Teacher of the Year team. She was the 2012 recipient of the World Village Wildcard scholarship and attended the JaSeSoiRy WorldVillage in Valkeala, Finland.
Katie Beth Traxler
A Potful of Surprises: The Magic and Wonder in Folktales and other Musical Ideas"
Presented by: Katie Beth Traxler & Danai Gagne
August 4th, 2018 *
Arts integration with music and movement for your classroom! Be prepared for an exciting adventure into the world of children's literature enhanced with music and movement exploration. Using the folktale "Two of Everything", we will create a mini-drama with songs, props, speech improvisation, and movement inspired by the story. This experience will show you how to integrate the components of ORFF into a final presentation, demonstrating to the school community how performances can evolve organically from the classroom laboratory. Using the southern favorite "Grandma's Gumbo", we will explore how to create simple rhythmic and melodic compositions to be used as a chorus with the book. We will also be weaving a musical quilt using bright fabrics, movement improvisation, singing, and instrumental playing.
Find out more about Katie at http://katietraxler.com/ Learn more about Danai by clicking here
Presented by: Katie Beth Traxler & Danai Gagne
August 4th, 2018 *
Arts integration with music and movement for your classroom! Be prepared for an exciting adventure into the world of children's literature enhanced with music and movement exploration. Using the folktale "Two of Everything", we will create a mini-drama with songs, props, speech improvisation, and movement inspired by the story. This experience will show you how to integrate the components of ORFF into a final presentation, demonstrating to the school community how performances can evolve organically from the classroom laboratory. Using the southern favorite "Grandma's Gumbo", we will explore how to create simple rhythmic and melodic compositions to be used as a chorus with the book. We will also be weaving a musical quilt using bright fabrics, movement improvisation, singing, and instrumental playing.
Find out more about Katie at http://katietraxler.com/ Learn more about Danai by clicking here
Doug Goodkin
"We Got The Jazz"
Presented By: Doug Goodkin
April 7th, 2018
JAZZ FOR ALL AGES: How can we make the complexities of jazz accessible to young children? With over three decades of experience teaching jazz through the pedagogy of Orff Schulwerk, Doug Goodkin will help us answer that question. Using children's games, movement, speech, body percussion and simple jazz arrangements for Orff ensemble, we will play our way to understanding what makes jazz jazz and how to improvise in various styles. Those who play band instruments should bring them to add to the ensemble.
BRIEF BIO: Doug Goodkin teachers music to children from three years old to eighth grade in The San Francisco School, where he has taught for 43 years. He is an internationally recognized teacher of Orff Schulwerk, a dynamic humanistic approach to music education, training teachers in 48 countries worldwide. He has taught jazz courses throughout the U.S. and Canada and in Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Iceland, Finland, Spain, Germany, Greece, Thailand, Taiwan and Australia. Doug is an author of eight books, including the groundbreaking Now's the Time: Teaching Jazz to All Ages. He has been a speaker at various Conferences and in a TEDx talk, director of and teacher in the prestigious San Francisco International Orff Course, the SF School Intern Program, the Jazz/Orff Course and frequent teacher at the Orff Institut in Salzburg, Austria. He is also the pianist in and leader of the jazz quintet, The Pentatonics, bringing jazz to people of all ages and giving workshops regularly at the SF Jazz Center.
Presented By: Doug Goodkin
April 7th, 2018
JAZZ FOR ALL AGES: How can we make the complexities of jazz accessible to young children? With over three decades of experience teaching jazz through the pedagogy of Orff Schulwerk, Doug Goodkin will help us answer that question. Using children's games, movement, speech, body percussion and simple jazz arrangements for Orff ensemble, we will play our way to understanding what makes jazz jazz and how to improvise in various styles. Those who play band instruments should bring them to add to the ensemble.
BRIEF BIO: Doug Goodkin teachers music to children from three years old to eighth grade in The San Francisco School, where he has taught for 43 years. He is an internationally recognized teacher of Orff Schulwerk, a dynamic humanistic approach to music education, training teachers in 48 countries worldwide. He has taught jazz courses throughout the U.S. and Canada and in Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Iceland, Finland, Spain, Germany, Greece, Thailand, Taiwan and Australia. Doug is an author of eight books, including the groundbreaking Now's the Time: Teaching Jazz to All Ages. He has been a speaker at various Conferences and in a TEDx talk, director of and teacher in the prestigious San Francisco International Orff Course, the SF School Intern Program, the Jazz/Orff Course and frequent teacher at the Orff Institut in Salzburg, Austria. He is also the pianist in and leader of the jazz quintet, The Pentatonics, bringing jazz to people of all ages and giving workshops regularly at the SF Jazz Center.
Marie Blaney
"Stepping Stones for Successful Teaching"
Presented By: Marie Blaney
February 3, 2018
“It is not what you tell your students about music that counts. It’s what you have them do with it.” Arnold Burckhardt
Books will contain ideas and materials but will not tell a teacher “what to do with the activities.” That is the crux of every teacher’s dilemma, coupled with how to progress step by step. We all know how we learn music, but how can we guide our students to be musicians and acquire new ideas and understanding of concepts so they too can create music of their own? How does a teacher go about developing “process?” How can “process” become the content of your music program? Join us for a fun day of music making with movement, speech, singing, and instrumentation designed to develop skills and process in the planning and execution of your music program.
Presented By: Marie Blaney
February 3, 2018
“It is not what you tell your students about music that counts. It’s what you have them do with it.” Arnold Burckhardt
Books will contain ideas and materials but will not tell a teacher “what to do with the activities.” That is the crux of every teacher’s dilemma, coupled with how to progress step by step. We all know how we learn music, but how can we guide our students to be musicians and acquire new ideas and understanding of concepts so they too can create music of their own? How does a teacher go about developing “process?” How can “process” become the content of your music program? Join us for a fun day of music making with movement, speech, singing, and instrumentation designed to develop skills and process in the planning and execution of your music program.
Juliette deSilva
"In Tune with Technology: the benefits of technology in the music classroom"
Presented By: Juliette De Silva
Sept. 16, 2017
Participants learned how to create a virtual flipchart using Active Inspire. This program can be used with any computer and projector or Promethean board. The presentation included sample lessons, demonstrations on importing PowerPoint files, how to edit pictures, scan in sheet music, insert audio files and web links. Participants had the opportunity to interact with the program during the session by composing a short rhythm activity.
About the Presenter... Juliette de Silva grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High School. In 2008, she graduated from Louisiana College with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education with a Vocal Concentration. Mrs. de Silva has been teaching elementary music since 2008. She taught music (a-la-cart) at Cedarcrest Southmoor Elementary School for 6 years and began teaching at BRCVPA in 2014. She teaches pre-K through fifth grade music and has two performing groups: Choristers and Recorder Percussion Ensemble. She earned her Level I Orff Certification from Samford University in the summer of 2015. She studied there under Jennifer Donavan and Brent Holl. She also became a board member of the Red Stick Orff Association for music teachers in 2015. She became the Treasurer of the Red Stick Orff Association in August 2016. She earned her Level 2 Orff Certification from Texas A&M University in July 2017.
Presented By: Juliette De Silva
Sept. 16, 2017
Participants learned how to create a virtual flipchart using Active Inspire. This program can be used with any computer and projector or Promethean board. The presentation included sample lessons, demonstrations on importing PowerPoint files, how to edit pictures, scan in sheet music, insert audio files and web links. Participants had the opportunity to interact with the program during the session by composing a short rhythm activity.
About the Presenter... Juliette de Silva grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High School. In 2008, she graduated from Louisiana College with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education with a Vocal Concentration. Mrs. de Silva has been teaching elementary music since 2008. She taught music (a-la-cart) at Cedarcrest Southmoor Elementary School for 6 years and began teaching at BRCVPA in 2014. She teaches pre-K through fifth grade music and has two performing groups: Choristers and Recorder Percussion Ensemble. She earned her Level I Orff Certification from Samford University in the summer of 2015. She studied there under Jennifer Donavan and Brent Holl. She also became a board member of the Red Stick Orff Association for music teachers in 2015. She became the Treasurer of the Red Stick Orff Association in August 2016. She earned her Level 2 Orff Certification from Texas A&M University in July 2017.
Aimee Curtis Pfitzner
Hands to Hands: Clapping Songs & Dances from Around the World
Presented By: Aimee Curtis Pfitzner
July 29, 2017
"Hands to Hands was collected from music teachers from around the world. These hand clapping games are universal, some are familiar, some are brand new. Rhythmic play with songs and chants is the instinctive music language of children. This collection is filled with high-energy and engaging materials all ages will enjoy. Each song and clapping game is engraved with unique body percussion notation making it easy to prepare the activities for students. Formations, dance steps, or other special instructions are included in each song and game." (Source: http://www.beatinpathpublications.com/ACP/home.html)
Aimee Curtis Pfitzner has been a teacher of Orff-Schulwerk for twenty-one years, receiving her Master level Orff certification from the University of Memphis. She holds a Masters Degree in Music Education from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and a Bachelors Degree in Music Education from the University of Maine, Orono. Aimee presents workshops for local, state and national conferences and contributes regularly to her blog, ofortunaorff.blogspot.com. She taught music in public schools in Maine for four years and has spent the past seventeeen years teaching at Cannon School in Concord, NC. When not singing, acting, teaching or presenting, Aimee can be found looking for sea glass in Maine, kayaking, running trails, sewing, painting shoes, doodling, and creating jewelry.
Presented By: Aimee Curtis Pfitzner
July 29, 2017
"Hands to Hands was collected from music teachers from around the world. These hand clapping games are universal, some are familiar, some are brand new. Rhythmic play with songs and chants is the instinctive music language of children. This collection is filled with high-energy and engaging materials all ages will enjoy. Each song and clapping game is engraved with unique body percussion notation making it easy to prepare the activities for students. Formations, dance steps, or other special instructions are included in each song and game." (Source: http://www.beatinpathpublications.com/ACP/home.html)
Aimee Curtis Pfitzner has been a teacher of Orff-Schulwerk for twenty-one years, receiving her Master level Orff certification from the University of Memphis. She holds a Masters Degree in Music Education from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and a Bachelors Degree in Music Education from the University of Maine, Orono. Aimee presents workshops for local, state and national conferences and contributes regularly to her blog, ofortunaorff.blogspot.com. She taught music in public schools in Maine for four years and has spent the past seventeeen years teaching at Cannon School in Concord, NC. When not singing, acting, teaching or presenting, Aimee can be found looking for sea glass in Maine, kayaking, running trails, sewing, painting shoes, doodling, and creating jewelry.