Registration Brochure for 2009-10 Workshops

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October 24, 2009 (East MS, Sioux City) - 9:00-1:00

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• Esther D'Agrosa ~ "Making Music, Reaching Readers"
  • This workshop will focus on intentional connections between music and reading instruction that can be facilitated in the elementary music classroom, using Orff Schulwerk philosophy and process.  These connections can be made without sacrificing either the music or reading curricula.  The result - powerful learning tools for the whole child.
  • Facilitating the music learning of children has been the focus of Esther's work.  She recently retired from the position of Associate PRofessor at Morningside College.  A graduate of Luther College, her Orff Schulwerk training was completed at Hamline University in St. Paul.  She teaches Orff Schulwerk training courses and workshops nationwide, including Trinity University (Texas) and Drake University (Iowa).  Ester served on the National Board of Trustees of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, was Chairperson of the Elementary Music for the Iowa Music Educator's Association board, and president of the Iowa Alliance for Arts Education.  Through the collaboration of the Iowa Alliance for Arts Education and the Iowa Department of Education, she has been a member of a team who planned and implemented several arts education professional development opportunities, including:  Arts Assessment, Arts Integration and Reading and the Arts.  She recently had an article published in a national peer reviewed journal, General Music Today - Winter 2008:  Making Music, Reaching Readers:  Powerful Connections for Young Students.

January 23, 2010 (Harvey Dunn Elementary, Sioux Falls) - 9:00-1:00

• Chapter Sharing ~ "Chat and Chew"

  • Information and sharing forms to be added

March 13, 2010 (Rosa Parks Elementary, Sioux Falls) - 9:00-1:00

• Melanie Sander ~ "Movement Magic: Ideas for the Orff Schulwerk Classroom"

  • This session will begin with a 30 minute presentation on the Danai Gagne Thesis, followed by 30 minutes of Greek Folk Dances (from Danai's repertoire).  For the second hour, we will work on creative movement with poems and short stories followed by movement canons and other lesson ideas.
  • Melanie Sander is the Elementary Music Specialist at Rosa Parks Elementary School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and has been teaching music for 16 years at various schools in Minnesota and South Dakota.  She received Orff Training (Levels 1-3) at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota and has a special interest in creative movement and dance.  Her master's thesis in on the life and work of Danai Gagne, one of the founders of the Orff Approach in the United States.

• Helen Short ~ "Drumming Up Fun!"

  • Clinic information coming
  • Helen Short teaches K-5 general music for the Harrisburg School District.  She began teaching in 1980.  She holds a Master of Music Education degree and is certified in both Orff and Kodaly methods.  Helen has also taught Kindermusik, worked with various community choirs, and was the founder of the NE Iowa Music Friends, a select children's choir that traveled throughout NE Iowa, SE Minnesota, and performed by invitation at the Children's International Choral Festival in Canterbury, England (2002).

     

    Helen has an after school drum circle and choir at Explorer Elementary.  Both clubs perform at school programs, community events, and at a Skyforce basketball game.  Students are volunteer members from grades 3-4-5.  She has completed World Music Drumming Level 1 and Drumming Up the Fun.   She uses world music drumming for curriculum integrations and performance venues.

     

• ~Business Meeting~

  • Agenda to be posted

September 18, 2009 (Sgt. Bluff Community Center) -  8:30-3:30

• Jill Trinka ~ "Making Folk Music Come Alive (And Using it To Teach Music Literacy Skills)"

  • A fundamental assumption of this in-service is that musical performance and pedagogy work together best when musical performance preserves the integrity of cultural expressions and serves as the basis for sequential musical skill and literacy instruction.  The teacher must provide a meaningful musical experience with each song before a particular pedagogic purpose can be truly realized.  Consequently, central goals of this in-service are to lead participants in:  (1) experiencing music of oral tradition that is musically and developmentally appropriate for children in Grades K-5; (2) identifying rhythmic and melodic characteristics of this music in performance style, and (3) briefly exploring possible uses of this highly flexible music – for informed performers – to teach music literacy skills in melodic improvisation and music reading.

     

  • When she’s not singing, dancing, performing, teaching, writing textbooks, or conducting residencies in schools, Dr. Trinka teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in music education at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN.  Professor Trinka specializes in American folk music---including performance on guitar, autoharp, dulcimer, and banjo--musicianship, folk song analysis and classification, elementary music education, and world music. She was a 1974-75 Ford Foundation Ringer Fellow at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, where she studied Kodály philosophy and practice in music education.

    Dr. Trinka has recorded and written four volumes of folksongs, singing games, and play parties for kids of all ages:  My Little Rooster (1987), Bought Me a Cat (1988), John, the Rabbit (1989), and The Little Black Bull (1996).  Her collaborative recordings with John Feierabend, Had a Little Rooster, Old Joe Clark, and There’s a Hole in the Bucket were released by GIA publications in 2006. She was president of OAKE  (2000-2002) and received their Outstanding Educator Award in 2003.  Jill is also a contributing author to Pearson/Scott Foresman/Silver Burdett’s Making Music, Grades 5-8, and has also served as a recording artist for them.