Combining Social-Emotional Learning and the Orff Approach

$20 | 60 minutes

SKU: SELEOAME-ODPP

Summary

Social-emotional learning (SEL) has become an incredible resource in music education. New research demonstrates that when applied to the Orff approach, it produces incredible results in student musical growth and SEL skills. This course will present a clear understanding of the history and philosophy of both SEL and the Orff approach, including data findings and an understanding of why they fit so organically together within the music classroom. Teachers will learn how to strategically implement SEL strategies into previously created and newly created SEL-embedded Orff lessons.

Outcomes

• Understand the history, philosophy, and function of social-emotional learning as it applies to music education.
• Create a list of functional SEL strategies from the three domains of Identity, Belonging, and Agency.
• Understand the functionality and importance of utilizing SEL within the music classroom.
• Understand the history, philosophy, and function of the Orff approach in music education.
• Implement functional SEL strategies into pre-written Orff lesson plans within the three domains of Identity, Belonging, and Agency.
• Create authentic SEL-embedded Orff lessons that utilize the basic functions of the Orff approach: movement, chant, song, instrumentation, improvisation, composition, and performance.
• Develop an action plan for implementing SEL strategies into an Orff curriculum.