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Carl Orff Schulwerk Method

The Carl Orff Schulwerk Method combines music, movement, drama, and speech into lessons that are similar to a child’s world of play. The Orff approach is just one of the many systems we have researched to create the Education for Life Program and this page is meant to function as an ever-expanding archive of open source, free-shared, and duplicable Carl Orff Schulwerk Method inspired ideas for evolving education. As this page continues to expand we also organize all the ideas into the primary components of the One Community Education Program: Curriculum for Life, Teaching Strategies for Life, Learning Tools and Toys for Life, and building The Ultimate Classroom. These components are designed to be combined to create endless “Lesson Plans for Life” purposed to grow and evolve what we feel will be the most comprehensive, effective, and diversely applicable free-education program and resource archive in the world. The One Community Foundations of Teaching, Leadership, and Communicating, combined with a collaborative Evaluation and Evolution Component (Portfolio Creation and Maintenance), help us to further grow and adapt both the program and as individuals.

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Carl Orff Schulwerk Method

If you have ideas from the Carl Orff Schulwerk Method of teaching that you feel should be added to this developing resource guide, please use our Education for Life Collaborative Input Page. Our goal is to list here what we feel are the best, simplest, and most usable tools with application and benefit for all ages?

NOTE: One Community does not believe there is any one system that is the best. It is our Highest Good of All philosophy to look at all systems and all methodologies. Our goal is to learn and integrate everything we can to better inspire and create the Education for Life program as an open source and free-shared globally collaborative and accessible program available to positively contribute to the education of anyone who chooses to use it.

Here is our continually evolving list of Orff Schulwerk Method inspired ideas divided into the categories of the Education for Life program:

Orff Schulwerk Foundations of Leadership, Teaching, and Communicating

If you’d like to help us make this list better, please submit your Orff inspired suggestions so that we can integrate them here and into the Foundations of Teaching, Leadership, and Communicating component.

● “Formal” instruction is avoided
● If you teach “why” and the philosophy behind a tool, the tool is no longer needed
● Teach with awareness of the following four stages: imitation, exploration, improvisation, composition
● Learning concepts through improvisation, composition and natural sense of play are encouraged
● ???

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Orff Schulwerk Unique Curriculum Ideas

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● Improvisation as a subject.
● Using your body as an orchestra.
● Philosophy of music and instruments before instruments makes instruments unnecessary.
● ???

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Orff Schulwerk Teaching Strategies

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● Combining music, movement, drama and speech into lessons that are similar to a child’s world of play.
● Musical concepts taught through singing, chanting, dance, movement, drama and the playing of percussion instruments.
● Music is learned by being involved. Similar to learning a language in it’s earliest form, prior to instruction, to learn by being in the conversation
● ???

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Orff Schulwerk Learning Tools and Toys

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● Simple and basic instruments (anything works) plus use of our body (hands, fingers, feet, voice)
● ???

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Orff Schulwerk Classroom Design

If you’d like to help us make this list better, please submit your Orff inspired suggestions so that we can integrate them here and into the Ultimate Classroom component.

● Open, flexible based upon providing for flexibility in the moment.
● Space for students to gather together in a large circle at times and smaller circles spaced out (depending on their instrument/activity) at other times.
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OTHER SYSTEMS EXPLORED

Montessori   ●   Waldorf   ●   Reggio   ●   Multi-Intelligence   ●   Bloom’s Taxonomy   ●   Study Tech

"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model.

You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called."
~ Buckminster Fuller ~