The Movement–Music Connection
Instructor: Judith Thompson-Barthwell
All students want to move and need to move. This series of sessions will focus on the movement–music connection leading toward musical understanding. Through directed teaching and guided exploration while singing, dancing, and playing, students gain a vocabulary of skills and concepts that lead to improvisation and creation. Join us as participants experience a variety of sequential lessons for primary and intermediate grades that help students internalize musical concepts and own their music.

Making the Most of Your Elementary Music Lesson
Instructor: Rhona Brink
These sessions will demonstrate how to integrate singing, movement, instruments, listening, literacy work, and lots of fun into elementary music lessons. Because elementary music teachers have limited contact time with students, they must make the most of every minute. Materials and activities appropriate to grade level and lesson-planning strategies will be provided and demonstrated. The handout will include a song packet and contact information for excellent resources to assist the elementary music specialist.

Orff-Afrique: Play the Dance, Sing the Drum, and Dance the Song! Traditional African Music, Dance, and Pedagogy
Instructor: J. S. Kofi Gbolonyo
This course will employ Orff-Afrique techniques to define music in holistic African terms. In this lively hands-on workshop, participants will gain an understanding of music making as it is traditionally defined among many ethnic groups in West Africa. The class will explore basic drumming techniques, dance steps, games, songs, and their layered meanings. Participants will take artistic journeys on xylophones, drums, and the body to enter the musical world of rhythms from Ghana, Togo, and Benin.