Participants will engage in an active general music lesson developed in the Orff Schulwerk approach centered on using barred instruments with early elementary students. They will experience tried and true activities rooted in play and in the child’s world where music, movement and dance, drama, and speech are indivisible. Pedagogical focuses will include barred instrument exploration, approaches to teaching melody, and beginning melodic improvisation.
Target Audience
Elementary General Music Teachers
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Clinician Info
Andrea Donahoe
Peripole Music
Andrea Donahoe teaches K-5 music and movement at Head-Royce School in Oakland, CA and is the current Dan and Lily Chao Family Chair for Global Education. Before HRS, she honed her preschool skills at a private, progressive, Mandarin immersion school in San Francisco and built the foundation for her career at two public elementary schools in Wood Dale, IL. After graduating from Augustana College, Andrea completed her Orff levels at the San Francisco International Orff Course in 2010 and joined the faculty as a part of the Level 1 Team in 2021. In addition to being an AOSA teacher educator, Andrea has presented workshops and sessions at the local, state, and national level and has been an active leader in her local Orff chapters; she is the current Past President of the Northern California AOSA Chapter.