Overview:

This 10-day course is for music teacher who wish to make music education a joyful and creative experience for both teacher and students through the Orff Schulwerk process.  Orff Schulwerk is a way to teach and learn music using poems, rhymes, games, songs, instruments and dances as basic materials, encouraging active music making  Created by Carl Orff (1895-1982), the emphasis is on students as improviser and performers, and focuses on experiential learning and practical music making.   The Orff approach to music education continues to grow and adapt to present day needs and circumstances.

Instructors:  Liz Gilpatrick and Michelle Swanson

Liz Gilpatrick has been active in Orff Schulwerk as a teacher of adults and children since 1976.  Until recently, she taught and was course director of one of the longest continuously running teacher training courses in the nation in Arizona and Colorado.  She has taught in levels training courses, workshops and state MENC conventions throughout the United States, including Alaska, and at numerous national AOSA conferences.  Liz has been a member of the editorial board of the Orff Echo for over eight years, and served as Interim Director of the journal from fall of 2001 to summer of 2002.  She has written articles for the Echo and other professional journals.  She has also authored four books of children's song materials for Alfred Publishing Company:  Round We Go, Come Join In, Round the Seasons and Sing with Me; and is currently at work on a fifth book, as yet untitled.

Michelle Swanson is an Instructor at the University of Northern Iowa's Malcolm Price Laboratory School.  She has been involved with Orff Schulwerk for nearly 15 years and is vice president of her local chapter.  Her special interest lies in percussion ensembles.  The MPLS Percussion Ensemble tours throughout Iowa.
Michelle has presented at conventions and workshops locally, statewide and nationally for many years.  She also teaches college-level courses at UNI and enjoys working with student teachers each semester.

Location:  University of Northern Iowa,  Cedar Falls, Iowa

(100 miles NE of Des Moines;  250 miles S of Minneapolis; 350 miles W of Chicago)

Daily Schedule:

8:00 - 8:30 AM -     choral work -

round singing, etc. - especially expanding the  song repertoire of folk and heritage material available to teachers for classroom use.

8:30 - 12 P.M. -      basic Orff -   pedagogy, literature, techniques and improvising

                                    (allows time for a total of 30 minutes of break)

12:00 - 1:00 P.M. -      lunch
 

1:00 - 2:00 P.M. -      movement

                                    (additional movement at 4:15 P.M. for 75 minute minimum)
 

2:00 - 3:00 P.M. -     recorder
 

3:00 - 4:15 P.M. -     basic Orff     (also allows time for break)
 

4:15-5:00 P.M. -     special topics -

                            20 minutes - International folk dance (every day)

                            25 minutes - creative drama, puppetry, masks, classroom manipulatives, etc.

            Course Registration Fee (and one graduate credit hour)  -    $400.00
                    -This course registration fee includes all course sessions, National Certification for Level One, and one hour of UNI graduate credit.

            Parking Permit (Covers both weeks) -    $15

            UNI Room & Board - Non-Air-conditioned -    $164.30/per week

            UNI Room & Board - Air-conditioned -    $194.30/per week

            **The core course registration fee includes a $25.00 non-refundable fee.

 
Two (2) additional hours of Graduate Credit from UNI - $220.00 per hour   (additional, above and beyond certification cost)

Requirements:

• 100 % attendance
• participation in all activities
• completion of all activities

Pre-Requisites:

• some Orff professional development
• basic understanding of music theory
• recorder familiary would be a bonus

Exit Skills:

• comprehensive curriculum resource book for K-6 general music
• renewed vitality in teaching
• confidence in teaching the elements of music in a process-oriented program as well as in a repertoire of music and dance pieces
• discover a multimedia approach:  movement, instruments, singing, chanting
• receive a certificate upon successful completion of course
• optional 3 hours of graduate credit from U.N.I.

Housing:

Housing is available on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa.  Please fill out the appropriate documents upon registration through the Conference and Visitors Service Center.

Accommodations:  The rates reflect staying Sunday evening and checking out on Friday each week.  The board plan begins each week with breakfast on Monday and ends with lunch on Friday.  If you would like information about staying on-campus during the weekend break call Conference & Event Services at (319) 273-6855.

A block of rooms has also been reserved at the Ramada Inn at 4th and Commercial in Waterloo.  To reserve your room, call the hotel direct at (319) 233-7560 and ask for the "Orff" rate of $59.00/per night.

Parking:  All vehicles must have a UNI permit to park on-campus.  You must purchase a parking permit for $15 if you wish to park on University property.  Check the appropriate box on the registration form and add it to the total.
 

Required Texts

Music for Children by Margaret Murray, European Amer Music Dist Corp (June 1978)
Teaching Folk Dance:  Successful Steps by Phyllis S. Weikart, High/Scope Press Spiral edition (1999)
Tutoring Tooters by Shirley W. McRae, Memphis Musicraft Publications (September 1990)
The Sweet Pipes Recorder Book, by Gerald Burakoff and William Hettrick, Sweet Pipes (1982)

Optional Texts

Echo Chain Singing Games by Grace Nash
Elementaria:  First Acquaintance With Orff-Scheslwerk by Gunild Keetman, European Amer Music Dist Corp (June 1974)
120 Singing Games and Dances for Elementary Schools by Lois Choksy, David Brummitt, Prentice Hall College Division (1987)
150 American Folk Songs to Sing Read and Play by Katalin Komlos, Erdei (Editor), Boosey & Hawkes (1974)
Folk Songs North America Sings by Richard Johnson
Orff-Schulwerk:  Applications for the Classroom by Brigitte Warner, Prentice Hall (1997)
 
 

WELCOMES YOU!

West Music will provide an on-site store for your music and literature needs during the course.  All required and recommended materials will be available.  A complimentary baroque/soprano recorder is provided for each participant.

Contact Information

For course content questions contact Michelle Swanson at (319) 273-2600 or e-mail michelle.swanson@uni.edu
For registration questions contact Conference & Event Services at (319) 273-6855 or e-mail jennifer.yarrow@uni.edu