Events
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Workshops
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2017-2018 Presenters
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Roger SamsIntegrating Orff Schulwerk, Kodály, and Eurhythmics with Integrity
This workshop will offer ways to blend processes from three different active music making approaches to offer your students a diverse, yet well integrated, assortment of learning activities. Each of these three approaches has different gifts to offer. The skillful teacher know when and how to choose the right learning activity from a plethora of choices. Together we’ll play with the richness offered through three different, yet complementary, teaching approaches. Roger Sams retired from the music classroom in 2013 after 31 years of teaching music. He has been an active clinician and Orff instructor for over two decades and has taught in China, India, Indonesia, Scotland, Canada, South Korea, Poland, and throughout the US. Roger is trained in Gestalt therapy and is interested in the power of choice in the artistic process and in life. He is co-author of "Purposeful Pathways: Possibilities for the Elementary Music Room” and the composer of several choral octavos published in the Crooked River Choral Project series and a book of rounds and partner songs titled, "A Round My Heart." He is currently Director of Publications at Music Is Elementary. |
Karen Howard
Karen is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of St. Thomas. Karen received her Bachelor’s and Masters degrees from The Hartt School, and her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. She was an elementary music educator and children’s choir director, first in Connecticut and then in Seattle, for 21 years. She has extensive training in multicultural music and dance. Some of the places she has studied include Cuba, Tahiti, Ghana, Turkey, Macedonia, Thailand, Morocco and India. She has presented workshops at the national and international level helping teachers make connections with music and dance of other cultures. Karen was recognized as CMEA’s Elementary Music Educator of the Year in 2003.
Karen is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of St. Thomas. Karen received her Bachelor’s and Masters degrees from The Hartt School, and her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. She was an elementary music educator and children’s choir director, first in Connecticut and then in Seattle, for 21 years. She has extensive training in multicultural music and dance. Some of the places she has studied include Cuba, Tahiti, Ghana, Turkey, Macedonia, Thailand, Morocco and India. She has presented workshops at the national and international level helping teachers make connections with music and dance of other cultures. Karen was recognized as CMEA’s Elementary Music Educator of the Year in 2003.
