2020 Music Education Summer Professional

Development

First Steps in Music with Orff-Schulwerk

June 22-June 25 2020 Monday-Wednesday

8:00am-4:00pm

Thursday 8:00am-12:00pm

Sing, say, dance, and play your way to learning how to develop tuneful, beatful, and artful students. Experience classroom-ready activities which follow the eight part workout from First Steps in Music and integrate the Orff approach. Develop a better understanding of how to blend these two approaches from activities to lesson planning. This special topics course is applicable to both the experienced teacher or the dabbling novice in First Steps in Music and/or Orff.

Betsy Greene teaches elementary general music and chorus in Burlington, Vermont. She earned her B.M.Ed. from the Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam and her M.M.Ed. from theHartt School of Music, University of Hartford. Betsy is both Kodaly and Orff-Schulwerk certified. She received the Outstanding Arts Advocate Award from the past Vermont Arts Alliance and the Music Educator of the Year Award from the Vermont Music Educators Association. Betsy is afounding member of Feierabend Association for Music Education and is currently serving asImmediate Past-President. She is a certified teacher trainer for both First Steps in Music and Conversational Solfege 1 & 2. She is a frequent presenter of workshops and graduate courses for First Steps in Music and Conversational Solfege throughout Vermont and New England. She is a co-author for First Steps in Music with Orff-Schulwerk: Sing, Say, Dance, Play and Feierabend Fundamentals: History, Philosophy, and Practice.

30 Professional Development hours or 2 Graduate Credits

Registration fee: $275 before May 31; $300 after May 31

Campus housing is available for an additional cost

Register at: https://uca.edu/music/summer-

programs-2020/