January Workshop Postponed, Rescheduled for April 9
After seeing the effect of COVID on our community these last few weeks and concern for the health and well being of teachers in our Chapter, the IOSA board sent a survey to membership about whether to continue with the January workshop in person, move online, or postpone. With input from the survey, we have decided to move the January Chapter Share to Saturday April 9th. We will miss seeing you next weekend, but know this is the best option for our Chapter at this time. At this point, our February workshop will still be in person.
FREE! Lesson Plans and Ideas
Missing our January workshop and the chance to collaborate and learn from other music teachers in our area? Check out a new section of the website with lesson plan ideas and resources. Lessons can be found under the "More" tab. Simply look for the "Lesson Plans and Ideas" page. Our IOSA board will be updating regularly with lesson plan ideas from the board and our membership!
Workshops are Back in Person!!!
We are so excited to be back together in person this year! We kicked off a great year of workshops with in October Kris Olsen and are continuing with a workshop with Kate Miller in February and our annual chapter share rescheduled for April 9, which allows us to remain in person. Learn more about our upcoming workshops below or visit our current workshop page for more information on this year years workshops. As in previous years, you can earn PD credit for attending our workshops! Don't forget that PD credit registration is separate from workshop registration.
February 26: Kate Miller, 8:30am-4pm
Birch Elementary, 6900 Birch Lane, Nampa, ID
The Volumes and You! What YOU can do!
Do you ever feel overwhelmed when you look at the Music for Children Orff Schulwerk Volumes? Are you afraid to admit that you don’t use the volumes like you think you should? You are not alone!
This presentation gives a ‘down to earth’ perspective of how to use the volumes! Ideas and suggestions are shared to help get you started using and understanding the volumes like an Orff teacher should!
About Kate:
Kateri (Kate) Miller, Ph.D., is assistant professor of music education at Minot State University in North Dakota. She has over 20 years of experience teaching children and adults and is certified in Orff-Schulwerk, Kodály, and has training in Dalcroze Eurhythmics. She is past president of the Orff chapter in Las Vegas and is currently serving as a trustee on the national board of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association. She has presented original material at KMEA, NDMEA, Orff Chapters, and the National Orff Conference and has presented the GAMEPLAN curriculum in various school districts throughout the United States. In addition, she has presented research at NAfME, Mid-South Music Education Research Symposium, Mountain Lake Colloquium, and OAKE. Currently, Dr. Miller teaches music education majors both elementary and secondary choral methods as well as non music education majors at Minot State University. In addition, she also conducts the Western Plains Junior Choir and Music Makers, an elementary Orff instrumental group.
Do you ever feel overwhelmed when you look at the Music for Children Orff Schulwerk Volumes? Are you afraid to admit that you don’t use the volumes like you think you should? You are not alone!
This presentation gives a ‘down to earth’ perspective of how to use the volumes! Ideas and suggestions are shared to help get you started using and understanding the volumes like an Orff teacher should!
About Kate:
Kateri (Kate) Miller, Ph.D., is assistant professor of music education at Minot State University in North Dakota. She has over 20 years of experience teaching children and adults and is certified in Orff-Schulwerk, Kodály, and has training in Dalcroze Eurhythmics. She is past president of the Orff chapter in Las Vegas and is currently serving as a trustee on the national board of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association. She has presented original material at KMEA, NDMEA, Orff Chapters, and the National Orff Conference and has presented the GAMEPLAN curriculum in various school districts throughout the United States. In addition, she has presented research at NAfME, Mid-South Music Education Research Symposium, Mountain Lake Colloquium, and OAKE. Currently, Dr. Miller teaches music education majors both elementary and secondary choral methods as well as non music education majors at Minot State University. In addition, she also conducts the Western Plains Junior Choir and Music Makers, an elementary Orff instrumental group.
April 9: Chapter Share Workshop, 8:30am-4pm
Birch Elementary, 6900 Birch Lane, Nampa, ID
Join us as our scholarship recipients, members, and Board share out what they learned from the national conference in November. This year our chapter share will also feature sessions on bucket drums, pool noodles, mallet wrapping, creating lessons with books, and a make and take with classroom sets of manipulatives that can be used in a number of ways. Hope to see you there!
Treasures to Raffle Quilt and Table Runner at 2021-2022 Workshops
Once again, Treasures will be raffling off an amazing quilt, as well as a table runner, to help fund scholarships that will help send our members to levels training and national conference in 2022-2023. Check out the treasures page for more information and contact Beverly Schumacher if you would like to purchase raffle tickets but are unable to attend our workshops. The deadline to purchase raffle tickets is usually at our last workshop of the year in February.
2021-2022 Music Quilt
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Front Side of Table Runner
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Back Side of Table Runner
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Velma Allen Scholarship Recipients 2021-2022
Hannah Gibson is our $500 scholarship recipient for this year. She will be a 1st year teacher next year at Sacajawea Elementary in Caldwell. She is excited to attend the Orff Level 1 training at USU this summer.
Levels Training Summer 2022
Levels training has changed teaching for so many of the teachers in our chapter. Our teachers come back inspired and equipped to teach in a whole new way. For this reason, we offer scholarships on a regular to attend levels training. If you are interested in levels training, check our scholarships page for details on applying for a scholarship. We would love to help you get there! You can also check out testimonials on our scholarship page and find out about the application process as well. Applications for 2022-2023 will begin in spring of 2022.
Instrument Loan Program
Through some very generous donations, the "Treasures" part of the Idaho Orff Chapter has put together sets of Orff instruments, guitars, ukes, and hand drums that are available for lending out starting this school year! Fill out an application to be selected. We are now accepting applications for the 2021-2022 school year. Applications are due Friday, April 30.
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