Christopher Giles and Michael Vasquez - Teaching With Orff https://teachingwithorff.com An Online Oasis for Movement & Music Educators Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:12:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://teachingwithorff.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-Teaching-With-Orff-logo-BWR-4-32x32.png Christopher Giles and Michael Vasquez - Teaching With Orff https://teachingwithorff.com 32 32 The Long Game: Growing From Play https://teachingwithorff.com/the-long-game-growing-from-play/ https://teachingwithorff.com/the-long-game-growing-from-play/#respond Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:53:51 +0000 https://teachingwithorff.com/?p=3661 Christopher Giles and Michael Vasquez describe how they took one piece, Halloween Night, and used it to meet multiple objectives in the primary, intermediate, and advanced levels.

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]]> Teachers often fall into the pitfall of learning new pieces at each grade level to teach new concepts.  Taking a familiar piece and spiraling it from primary to advanced levels gives students a foundation to build upon.  The pdf linked below demonstrates how we took one piece, Halloween Night, and used it to meet multiple objectives in the primary, intermediate, and advanced levels.  All activities are built as independent lessons within each level.  It is not our intent for anyone to use all components listed below, but to give suggestions on how one piece can be used multiple ways.

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