Orff Schulwerk for Gifted Students

All the participants will:

- Develop their speaking technique and identify the function of sound

- Use the sound as an instrument of improvisation and artistic creation

- Express themselves by the way of music, movement, and sound

- Explore the music materials -instruments-

- Improvise

- Identify the Orff instruments

- Gain the correct body stand position

- Use their body as an instrument

- Learn different movement qualities

- Learn forms of music and dance

- Classify the narrative elements of music

- Design a lesson plan according to different person and group characteristics

- Use the music, sound, and speech as a communication tool

- Use the gesture, mimic, and body language

- Define the basic principles of Orff Schulwerk Music and Movement Education

- Put the basic principles of Orff Schulwerk Music and Movement Education in the class areas

- Direct their students to use language, music, and movement elements as a means of expression

- Direct their students to group activities where they will use language music and movement

- Prepare appropriate atmosphere for individual and group improvisation

- Increasing the knowledge and skills of the staff on Basic Music and Movement Education.

- Expressing themselves by the way of music, movement, and sound

- Exploring the music materials -instruments-

- Identifying the Orff instruments

- Using their body as an instrument

- Learning forms of music and dance

- Classifying the narrative elements of music

- Using the music, sound, and speech as a communication tool

- Defining the basic principles of Orff Schulwerk Music and Movement Education

- Putting the basic principles of Orff Schulwerk Music and Movement Education in the class areas

- Directing their students to use language, music, and movement elements as a means of expression

- Directing their students to group activities where they will use language music and movement

- The Orff Schulwerk approach will be used to achieve the objectives of the program.

- National and universal values related to program subjects, will be given by fusing them.

- Course notes related to education will be given to participants in electronic environment.

- All music teachers who are working in school institutions.

Before the course,

- A detailed pre-course questionnaire to indicate their level of experience, teaching backgrounds, and training will be completed by participants.

- They will also prepare a presentation to reflect their own teaching method.

- A course participation certificate will be given to all participants.

- A Europass Mobility Certificate will be given if the participant demands it, as well.

09:00 – 10:00 Ice-breaking activities and introduction of the course program

10:15 – 11:15 Getting to know each other – Presentation of participants (a five-minute presentation)

11:30 – 12:30 What is the Orff Schulwerk?

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 What are the basic principles?

- What are the elements of Orff Schulwerk?

14:45 – 15:45 Materials used in Orff Schulwerk; Orff instruments and rhythmic instruments, ostinato, bordun, pentatonic, hexatonic, rondo

09:00 – 10:00 Rhythmic studies based on language: riddles, rhymes, street games

10:15 – 11:15 Rhythmic studies transferred to the body and body percussion

- Turkish rhythmic transfer to the body,

- Rhythmic blocks transfer to the body

11:30 – 12:30 Sound studies; properties of sound,

- using the sound as a material,

- using the sound as an effect and vocalize

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 sound editing,

- narrative elements of music

14:45 – 15:45 Ensemble and Orchestration; studies on musical form structure

- organization of rhymes, riddles, street games and multi-party organization

09:00 – 10:00 rhythmic canon and rounding,

- transferring the rhythmic studies to the instrument

10:15 – 11:15 Sound, music, and movement

- Companionship of sound and movement

11:30 – 12:30 Integrating movement / dance into a music lesson

- Expressing a work of art (starting from painting, poetry, or story) with music, movement, and speech -group working-

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Instrument making and material design; making a rhythmic instrument

14:45 – 15:45 Making instruments that make sound on different key

- Making materials related to class and topic

09:00 – 10:00 Didactic; historical development of Orff Schulwerk

10:15 – 11:15 Elementary music and movement concept

11:30 – 12:30 Movement / dance didactics

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Characteristic and basic principles of Orff Schulwerk

14:45 – 15:45 Pedagogical attitudes of Orff Schulwerk methods

09:00 – 10:00 Designing lesson plan with Orff Schulwerk methods

10:15 – 11:15 Overview of the course program

11:30 – 12:30 Evaluation of the course program

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Filling the feedback forms

14:45 – 15:45 Europass Mobility Certificate, Participation Certificate