Orff in the Culturally Diverse Classroom
Massry Center for the Arts -- College of St. Rose, Albany, NY
Tailoring an "Orff Inspired" curriculum to meet the needs of culturally diverse learners can make singing, saying, dancing and playing fun and challenging for everyone, including the teacher. We will spend time with attention-getting "get-to-know-you" lessons, using diverse literature, tweaking "classic" lessons, and creating larger projects that could also become subjects for sharing in performances. In this session, we will address needs for learners in kindergarten to middle school.
LeslieAnne Bird is a music and movement educator in North Olmsted, Ohio. She teaches general music for grades three to six as well as fifth and sixth-grade band, orchestra and choir for grades three to six. She teaches Orff enrichment for The Strings Attached summer orchestra program at Tri-C. She is Vice president for the Greater Cleveland Orff Chapter and serving as the content curator for the Teaching With Orff community. She earned Orff Certification from Baldwin Wallace University in 2014 and has completed Music Learning Theory General Music Level one and Level One World Music Drumming training.
