Getting Started: Goals and Objectives for Beginning Your General Music Classes

Pre-service teachers and first year teachers are often challenged on strategies and content when crafting their year-long curricula for the first time. This session offers some starting points for general music teachers K-5 to build an effective and meaningful music program in their schools.

Rob Amchin is Emeritus Professor of Music Education at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. He was also a Professor of Music Education at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania. He studied Orff pedagogy at New England Conservatory of Music, Hofstra University, Memphis State, Hamline University, University of Michigan, and the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria. He has presented Orff-based workshops on Orff-based general music pedagogy music and movement pedagogy nationally and around the world for nearly 40 years. He is the author of books related to Orff Schulwerk and general music, is the level I, II and III pedagogy and master class teacher at many summer programs around the country, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the American Orff Schulwerk Association. He currently lives in the Washington, DC, area with his wife and family.

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