Workshops & Events
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The Evergreen Orff Chapter workshops are held in the Puget Sound area of Washington state. Our chapter serves members throughout western Washington. The EOC typically has four workshops per year. Members of our sister chapters may attend EOC workshops at the member rate. Our sister chapters include: Inland Empire, The Portland Chapter, The Idaho Orff Chapter, and BC Orff. WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: Please note, email is not accepted as registration for workshops. Completed registration forms for individual workshops must be mailed or emailed to the EOC Treasurer. Workshop fees must be mailed with the completed registration form, or paid online by clicking the respective Paypal buttons below. Pre-registration fees are non-refundable. Each Download Registration button below includes the registration form, workshop fee information, description and directions. TAKING WORKSHOPS FOR CREDIT: EOC has 1-2 credits available for our workshop year but members will need to attend two or four workshops to get the credit needed. Each workshop will be worth .5 credits, but SPU will not grant the credit unless you attend at least two workshops AND complete the assignments given by the facilitator. You can register at any workshop. At registration let our credit facilitator (Elaine Hoffman) know which option you will be taking. You will be able to choose which workshops you attend; two for 1 credit, or all four for 2 credits. WORKSHOP COUPONS: EOC workshop coupons are available. Bring a colleague to their first Evergreen Orff Chapter workshop for free, or bring your administrator to an Evergreen Orff Chapter workshop for free! Download coupons HERE. |
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September Sharing - "A Taste of EOC"
September 17, 2011 | 9:00am-3:00pm Zeiger Elementary, 13008 94th Ave. E. Puyallup, WA 98373 | MAP Come get a “Taste of EOC” as board members and scholarship winners share kid tested ideas and lessons on a wide variety of topics including: Jamaican song and drumming, improvisation, world music, recorder, storytelling, movement, Orff Schulwerk process, and technology in the classroom. Don’t miss this chance to share and create with friends and colleagues.   
Mini-Conference featuring Karen Medley “The Journey is the Destination” October 14 & 15, 2011 Robert Frost Elementary School, 11801 Northeast 140th Street Kirkland, WA 98034 | MAP Master Orff clinician Karen Medley with help us all to connect, play, and reflect on our strengths as an Orff Schulwerk community. This workshop will celebrate our potential for wonder and foster our capacity for resilience as we make joyful music together before returning home to share what we have learned with our students. Mini Conference participants will also benefit from the teaching expertise of Donna Knudson, Lucy Kay Osborne, Patricia Bourne, and Ann Palmason. Donna Knudson will be presenting “Volume 1 Made Easy.” Lucy Kay will teach the basics of Orff instrument repair. Patty Bourne will lead the choral reading session on Saturday morning. Don’t forget to indicate whether you will be attending this session on your registration form. And Ann Palmason’s session will “Celebrate Syllables with the Instrumentarium.” Participants will pick up skill-building activities for K–5 with a focus on the way syllables create rhythmic patterns. Bring a soprano recorder to investigate pieces by Isabel Carley. All included, Mini-Conference will be a fun filled, educational event not to be missed. PLEASE NOTE: PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR MINI-CONFERENCE.
AOSA National Conference November 9-12, 2011 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Visit the AOSA National Conference website for more information and to register online. 
Maribeth Yoder-White - "Seize the Music" Re-Scheduled for Saturday, October 27, 2012 Daffodil Valley Elementary School, 1509 Valley Avenue, Sumner, WA 98390 | MAP This workshop will focus on cultivating students’ confidence, creativity, communication, and collaboration skills while making viable connections to other subject areas and students’ lives. Intending to develop essential 21st century skills, we’ll explore various instructional process and activities designed to develop a range of students’ musical and non-musical skills and understandings. Content will include instructional strategies and materials for facilitating students’ cognitive understanding of musical elements while developing crucial psychomotor and socio-emotional skills. Designed for elementary and middle grades music teachers, this workshop will include hands-on activities and materials for helping students develop as creative, confident, and competent musicians.
Roger Sams - "Process and Possibility" March 3, 2012 | 9:00am-3:00pm The Bush School, 3400 E. Harrison Street, Seattle, WA 98390 | MAP At any given moment in the Orff Schulwerk classroom there are multiple directions that good teaching process can take you. With any piece of literature there are any number of concepts and skills that you can teach or practice. With any concept or skill there are any number of pathways to support student learning. How do you manage all of these possibilities? In the active workshop we not only experience lessons that guarantee success on the daily level, but we elevate our vantage point and look at some of the big ideas. What do you value most in your classroom? Are you using your teaching time in a way that truly reflects your values? Are your choices in learning activities and concepts covered reflective of what you say you value most? We may not come up with answers to all the big questions, but we will spend a day courageously swimming in the possibilities and gaining clarity and direction for the future. Bring with you a mind and body ready to learn, your soprano recorder, Music for Children, Volume I and Rhythmische Ubung, if you own them.
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