Workshops
WORKSHOP CALENDAR 2011-2012
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April 21, 2012 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Chapter Heroes:
Lisa Mandelstein, Shane Troll, John Ashfield, Jeannie McKenzie
Encinal School, 195 Encinal Ave at Middlefield Road, Atherton, CA 94027
Don't forget Freecycle items to share with your colleagues!Our Chapter has many amazing presenters and teachers. We will join Lisa Mandelstein to explore a gem of her curriculum with all Orff media: movement, singing, and instruments. Shane Troll will give us a wonderful tour into the richness of his vocal program. And Jeannie McKenzie and John Ashfield will have us singing and strumming with delight on the soprano ukulele. It’s like a one-day Mini-Conference!
LISA MANDELSTEIN is a San Francisco songwriter, performer and music teacher currently in her twelfth year at Burke’s School for Girls in San Francisco. She is trained in both the Orff and Kodály approaches.
SHANE TROLL is currently the director of music at Pinewood Elementary School, where he oversees the 3rd–6th grade classroom music program along with three children’s choirs. In addition, he serves as the Associate Artistic Director of Cantabile Youth Singers.
JOHN ASHFIELD teaches K-5 classroom music in the Menlo Park City School District. He is also the frontman for the pop band, “The Bobbleheads.”
JEANNIE MCKENZIE is the K-8 Music teacher at Windrush School in El Cerrito. Her resume includes teaching Orff, vocal technique, taiko drumming, yoga, circus arts, mime, modern dance, meditation and song writing.
Past Workshops:
February 4, 2012 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Patricia Reedy & Nancy Ng of Luna Dance Institute
Standards-Based Movement Education
Prospect Sierra School, Avis Campus, 960 Avis Drive, El Cerrito 94530
This session will present a comprehensive introduction to standards-based dance education and investigate ways of integrating dance with music and other subject matter. Participants will deepen their understanding of the elements of dance and experience its relationship with music through exploration, improvisation and composition.
Bios for Patricia Reedy and Nancy Ng: http://lunadanceinstitute.org/staff/
Since 1982, LUNA DANCE INSTITUTE has grown from a local children’s dance program to a nationally recognized dance education organization providing services to children and adults. Their core values include access to dance for all children, community service with integrity, and creativity as the foundation for dance in education. Luna’s Professional Learning Component and Model Programs work in tandem to bring high quality standard-based dance learning to all children while improving dance teaching practice and advancing the field of dance education.
October 1, 2011
Paul Cribari: Planning Performances Without Compromising Curriculum
Head Royce School Gymnasium, 4315 Lincoln Avenue, Oakland 94602
Please bring a bag lunch. There are no nearby places to eat and morning snacks are limited. Also bring a recorder if you have one.
There will be a FREECYCLE table if you wish to pass on useful materials to your fellow teachers.
In this session, we will explore the ways in which curricular content can be adapted and modified to meet the needs of a spring performance. Pieces will be drawn from the Schulwerk, and examples will be given for grades 1-5. Come prepared to play, sing, dance and create as we explore the ways curriculum can be integrated into performance!
PAUL CRIBARI is an Orff-Schulwerk teacher in the Cherry Creek School District in Colorado. There he teaches preschool through fifth grades, and conducts the school choir. In addition to his work with children, Paul teaches workshops and teacher training levels at numerous universities, and is a regular clinician for local chapters of AOSA. He received his Orff certification at the University of St. Thomas and has presented sessions several times at AOSA National Conferences.
GENERAL INFORMATION ON ONE-DAY CHAPTER WORKSHOPS
NCAOSA offers three workshops per school year, free to members. Every other year, in lieu of the spring workshop, we present a three-day MiniConference in a retreat center in Carmel Valley.
We seek to host workshop clinicians who will model teaching practices that embody the philosophy of Orff-Schulwerk. Most workshops will provide material directly applicable to the classroom, while also proposing new avenues of learning and refreshing the creative spirit.
One semester of university credit is available through Cal State East Bay (Hayward). You must attend all three workshops above and complete a written assignment for each one. Fee: $90.
Contact Melissa Preston melimusica@sbcglobal.net for more information.
All workshops are Free for NCAOSA members! Join now.
Non-Member Fees Per Workshop:
Regular - $75
Student/Senior - $45;
Reciprocal Chapter Member - $20.
All workshops 9:30 am - 3:30 pm unless otherwise stated.
Onsite registration 9:00 - 9:30 am.
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Workshops are for adults only; childcare is not available. Bring a lunch and wear comfortable clothes for movement. No dark-soled shoes on gym floors. Unobtrusive audiotaping is acceptable; please no videotaping. Bring a soprano recorder, if you have one.
We seek to host workshop clinicians who will model teaching practices that embody the philosophy of Orff-Schulwerk. Most workshops will provide material directly applicable to the classroom, while also proposing new avenues of learning and refreshing the creative spirit.
One semester of university credit is available through Cal State East Bay (Hayward). You must attend all three workshops above and complete a written assignment for each one. Fee: $90.
All workshops are Free for NCAOSA members! Join now.
Non-Member Fees Per Workshop:
Regular - $75
Student/Senior - $45;
Reciprocal Chapter Member - $20.
All workshops 9:30 am - 3:30 pm unless otherwise stated.
