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2022-23 Workshop Series

4/8/2017 - Dr. Martina Vasil: "'OMG! That's my song!': Integrating popular music with Orff Schulwerk

3/13/2017

 
Dr. Martina Vasil
Join NNJOSA on Saturday, April 8, 2017 (9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.) for a workshop with Dr. Martina Vasil! Being a well-informed music educator means understanding current music and how it can affect students (Rideout, 2005). Teachers who tap into the knowledge that students have of popular music and culture are exercising culturally relevant teaching, “a pedagogy that empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes” (Ladson-Billings, 1994). Culturally relevant practices are an integral part of the Schulwerk approach, as Orff recommended that teachers bring content from students’ cultures into the classroom. This workshop will involve participants in a variety of lessons that fuse popular music with the Orff approach. Participants will consider ways to bring students’ preferred music into the their Orff-Schulwerk classrooms and the positive ways that culturally relevant pedagogy can influence their students’ learning.

WHEN: April 8, 2017 (9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
​WHERE: Hunziker Hall (room 203)
REGISTRATION: visit our registration page for more info

Dr. Martina Vasil is Assistant Professor of Music Education and Director of the Orff Schulwerk and Dalcroze Summer Institute at the University of Kentucky. She teaches a graduate course, "Popular Music in Music Education and Music Therapy" and two undergraduate general music methods courses, where she covers ways to bring popular music and informal learning into K-12 general music. Her interest in using popular music in music education arose from her own difficulties teaching middle school general music in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Martina's research interests include integrating popular music and culture across disciplines, investigating ways that teachers integrate popular music and informal music learning practices into traditional K-12 music programs, and determining how to better prepare preservice music teachers to perform, create, and teach popular music in authentic ways.

3/11/17 - Roger Sams: "Playing with Possibilities: The power of Orff Schulwerk in the elementary classroom"

3/2/2017

 
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Join us on Saturday, March 11, 2017 (9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.) on the campus of William Paterson University as we welcome clinician Roger Sams! The workshop will focus on the possibilities and power of teacher and student choice in the elementary classroom. Publications will be available for purchase through Music is Elementary. Bring your soprano recorders!

Please note that this workshop will be held in University Center room 171A/B, not Hunziker Hall. Attendees should park in the normal lot (see our registration page for more info) and proceed between Hunziker Hall and Shea Center, past Raubinger Hall, University Hall, and Wrightman Gym to arrive at University Center. Signs will be posted along the route.

Roger Sams retired from the music classroom in 2013 after 31 years of teaching music in public and private schools. He has served as adjunct faculty, teaching methods courses, and supervising student teachers at Cleveland State University and has been on the faculty in teacher education programs at the University of St. Thomas, Cleveland State University, Akron University, University of Montana, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and other venues throughout the US. Roger is a regular presenter at state, regional, and national conferences, has served on the AOSA National Board of Trustees, and has worked with teachers in Canada, China, Indonesia, and India. He currently serves as Director of Publications and Music Education Consultant at Music Is Elementary (www.MusicIsElementary.com). Trained in Gestalt therapy, Roger is interested in the power of choice in the artistic process, teaching, and life. He is the co-author of "Purposeful Pathways: Possibilities for the Elementary Music Classroom" with Beth Ann Hepburn. He has published works for children's choirs in the "Crooked River Choral Project" series and a collection of rounds and partner songs entitled, "A Round My Heart."

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    10/15: Warkenda Williams-Casey
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    1/28: Chapter Share
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