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| Date: | Workshop: |
|---|---|
| August 10, 2009 | Karen Stafford: American History & Music |
| September 12, 2009 | Karen Petty: Music Literacy |
| October 17, 2009 | Donna Massella-Chiacos: Stories and Music |
| November 11-14, 2009 | National AOSA Conference: Milwaukee, WI |
| February 20, 2010 | Leslie Timmons: Recorder Technique |
| March 27, 2010 | Variations: Exploring the Volumes |
| April 17, 2010 | Anna Marie Spallina: Movement |
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General Workshop Information
Our workshops take place at Carman Trails Elementary School in Ballwin, MO, a suburb that is approx. 20 miles southwest of downtown St. Louis.
Directions:
Take I-270 to Manchester Rd. - West on Manchester Rd. to Weidman Rd. - South on Weidman Rd. to Carman Rd. Carman Trails Elementary is at the corner of Weidman Rd. and Carman Rd. (The entrance to the parking lot is on the right, just before you get to the intersection of Weidman Rd. & Carman Rd.)
Get detailed directions to our workshops at Carman Trails Elementary.
| Membership Dues: | Workshop Fees: | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local Chapter Dues: | $20 | Members: | $20 | |
| National Membership Dues: | $75 | Non-Members: | $25 | |
| Students: | $15 | |||
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Local Chapter Dues and All Workshops: $80
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Karen Stafford: Strolling Through American History in the Schulwerk!
August 10, 2009 - 6:00pm
Registration begins at 5:30 p.m.
Carman Trails Elementary
Bring American history to life with movement and instruments, along with cross-curricular ideas added to various folk songs and other works representing our rich culture. Handout will include ideas not covered in the session, as well as enrichment ideas and cross-curricular ideas, with corresponding teaching strategies and music and social studies GLEs included. Just remember, this is the VERY tip of the iceberg!
Karen Stafford is music specialist for South Point Elementary in the School District of Washington. She is also the director of South Point’s Musica Primaeva, an instrumental consort of recorders, percussion, and Orff instrumentarium in which the members dress in Renaissance period costumes. Karen provides music enrichment for elementary summer school sessions for Washington as well.
Karen is on the St. Louis AOSA board as recruitment representative and is also on the board for the Missouri Music Educators Association as website consultant and previously served as elementary vice-president and past presenter. She also belongs to the American Recorder Society, the National Education Association, and the American Orff Schulwerk Association. Karen is in the process of organizing the Franklin County Recorder Society and frequently performs on woodwinds and keyboard in various area musicals in Franklin County. You can visit Karen's website at: www.musiceducationmadness.com.
Karen Petty: Weave It Together - Building Music Literacy
September 12, 2009 - 9:00am-1:00pm
Carman Trails Elementary
Through speaking, singing, playing, moving, and creating, we’ll explore ways to weave together instruction and assessment. We’ll focus on ways of assessing that make it possible to involve whole group activity, but still allow for individual assessment. This workshop will feature simple, everyday songs and pieces with activities, games, and teaching strategies that bridge into reading and writing music—specifically rhythm and melody. The crux of the workshop will be assessment games/activities and student composition as an assessment tool, but also ways to connect that to song materials so that assessment isn’t just another thing that has to happen, but truly woven into the whole!
Karen Petty teaches music, 1st-5th grade, plus Chorus and Recorder Consort at Trevor Day School in New York City. Before moving to New York, Karen (Larson) Petty taught music K-6 for 21 years in the Doughlas County Public Schools in Colorado. There she was the chair of the District Music Curriculum Council and co-authored an Orff-based K-6 music curriculum with embedded assessments.
Karen served on the National Board of Trustees for the American Orff Schulwerk Association and has presented at 5 AOSA national conferences and for many schools and Orff chapters. She is a past president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter and the current president of the New York City Chapter.
Donna Massello-Chiacos: From Sounds to Stories - Orff Schulwerk Process and the Child's World
October 17, 2009 - 9:00am-1:00pm
Carman Trails Elementary
This workshop will focus on process as we explore the elemental nature of poems, rhymes, songs, and games from children’s literature. Materials will be drawn from folk tradition, Keetman’s Elementaria, and Music for Children. Join us as we weave together musical elements and the joyous sounds of childhood (K-6)!
Donna Massello-Chiacos, certified Orff Schulwerk specialist and pianist, presents workshops for children and teachers at the local and international level. Donna is currently teaching grades 2, 3, and 4 music at Orca School. She is the former music director of San Roque School in Santa Barbara (preschool through 8th grade) which espouses the philosophy of multiple intelligences of children.
Teacher training experience includes teaching summer levels courses in Orff Schulwerk at the University of Montana, Cleveland State University, and Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC.
Donna has presented workshops throughout the USA and Canada including four AOSA National Conferences as well as three workshop/consultations in Taiwan from 2000-2001.
This workshop will be especially valuable to primary classroom teachers. Classroom teachers are invited to come with their music teacher and enjoy the October workshop for FREE!
National AOSA Conference: Milwaukee, WI
November 11-14, 2009
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Everyone is invited to attend the 2009 National AOSA Conference to be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin November 11-14, 2009. Download conference registration information at www.aosa.org.
Rosemary Koepfle invites as many as can attend the Milwaukee conference to learn more about possible roles in the 2012 St. Louis Conference. “Feel free to talk to the local conference committee chairs and scope out the various committees. This will be so helpful as the chapter members begin deciding what committees they want to join. You will find the Milwaukee people very friendly and helpful.”
Leslie Timmons: Tackling Technique on Recorder
February 20, 2010 - 9:00am-1:00pm
Carman Trails Elementary
In this workshop, we will explore specific ideas for learning excellent woodwind technique in a classroom setting. Using the creative teaching processes of Orff Schulwerk: echo playing, improvisation, rhythmic speech exercises, singing, listening, notation, and movement; the focus will be on incorporating recorder instruction into ensemble activities instead of isolating it from other musical development. St. Louis Recorder Society will also provide a short concert.
Leslie Timmons is on the faculty at Utah State University where she is responsible for the Flute Studio and Elementary Music Methods and developed a course on Recorder Technique and Ensemble for Music Therapy majors. She is Orff specialist with the Cache Children’s Choir and has been active in the Utah Arts Council Artist-in-Education program.
Leslie’s presentations include national conferences of AOSA, ARS, MENC, National Flute Association, OAKE, and the International Congress on Recorder Orchestra in the Netherlands. Her training in Orff began at the Orff Institute in Austria and continued with Grace Nash, Liz Gilpatrick, and Judith Cole in Colorado. Leslie has served as Region Representative on the national board of AOSA and currently serves on the board of the American Recorder Society (ARS) and chairs the AOSA joint committee of AOSA/ARS. She directs summer Orff Schulwerk training courses at Utah State University.
Chapter Sharing - Variations: Exploring the Volumes
March 27, 2010 - 9:00am-12:00pm
Carman Trails Elementary
In this workshop we will look at some unfamiliar pieces from the volumes and the chapter will create performances using those samples. We will then discuss our own creative process and the process in which we would present these pieces to students.
In 1999, Pamela Yelton, a St. Louis AOSA member, extended an invitation to her colleagues to explore and create using the Orff volumes. Over the years, a dedicated group of chapter members began to create and improvise performance pieces that have been shared both in the community and for their local chapter.
Variations considers one of their strengths to be their teaching experience, which ranges from four to forty plus years.
Members of Variations are: Cora Lippi, Mary McKenney, Amy Gregory, Pamela Yelton, Crystal Estey and Megan Gardner.
Pot Luck Luncheon for all chapter members at 12:00 noon.
Please bring a dish to share!
Anna Marie Spallina: From the Big Apple - Movement Ideas for the Music Classroom
April 17, 2010 - 9:00am-1:00pm
Carman Trails Elementary
This workshop will focus on Orffbased lesson ideas for elementary music grades 2-6 incorporating movement and sound games, drama, Renaissance dance, storytelling, recorder and improvisation, 12-bar blues, and instrumental improvisation. We will explore musical forms in their historical context using their structures as a framework for inventing new movement and instrumental pieces.
Anna Marie Spallina is the music teacher at PS 163 in New York where she teaches grades prekindergarten through 5th grade general music, chorus, guitar class, and percussion ensemble. She received her Orff certification from the New England Conservatory in Boston and has further studied Orff Schulwerk in Salzburg, Austria and Urbino, Italy. In 1990, she was awarded a Keetman grant to study Orff Schulwerk in Assisi, Italy.
Anna has been a music teacher at public and private schools since 1983. She has taught Orff Teacher Training courses at the Bloomingdale School of Music in New York City, College of St. Rose in Albany, New York; University of Rhode Island, Indiana University of Pensylvania, Indiana/ Perdue at Ft. Wayne, and New York University. Anna was a contributor to the McGraw-Hill “Share the Music” series in 1993. She has also published an article in K-8 magazine in 2006.
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