From Arts, Beauty and Character to the Zen of Education, author and internationally acclaimed music teacher Doug Goodkin takes us on an alphabetic tour through the attributes that could revive all schools as we know them. Drawing from his teaching experience at one remarkable school and his work with teachers throughout the world, Goodkin reminds us that a school's worth lies not in its test scores or sports records, but in the health of its community and its ability to keep the unbridled curiosity of six-year-olds burning throughout their entire school experience. These essays range from practical advice (What to do when your preschool class takes off running down the hall) to biting satire (Xylophones mandated in every classroom!) to tender reflections (45 years later, an answer to a note his elementary school teacher wrote to him). Teachers, parents, administrators and students alike will find ample food for thought in this provocative look at the ways in which today's schools are failing our children, and what teachers can do to restore the promise of education.

The ABC's of Education: A Primer For Schools to Come

Education & Teaching

Goodkin, Doug

Schools & Teaching

Pentatonic Press

This one-of-a-kind book combines practice, theory, aesthetics, history and a proven pedagogy in leading both children and adults in the joys of jazz. It features 70 activities for teachers to do with children based on the Orff approach to music education, a clear developmental sequence and a thorough analysis of the basics of the blues, jazz standards and improvisation. Activities are applicable to preschool, elementary and middle school students and adaptable to any age. They include games, speech, body percussion, movement, songs and arrangements for Orff instruments of classic jazz tunes. Included also is a Middle School curriculum with examples of children's work.

Now's the Time: Teaching Jazz To All Ages

This book offers both philosophical and practical ways to teach music through language and enhance literacy programs with music. It includes. 48 tried-and-true activities for preschool age through upper elementary.. Lesson plans usable by both music and classroom teachers.. A sequential development from phonemes to poems, from speech pieces to pentatonic orchestrations. . Arrangements for Orff Instrument ensemble and details of Orff orchestration.. Models of how to imaginatively animate rhymes.

Intery Mintery: Nursery Rhymes for Body, Voice and Orff Ensemble (1) (The Pentatonic Press Integrated Learning Series)

Arts & Photography

Music

This book addresses the practice of arts integration using a basic approach for the music and dance classroom. It features 25 themes with music, poetry, dance and visual art activities for preschool through middle school students. It includes:. Lesson examples applicable to students of all ages. Pedagogical and methodological ideas for teaching music and visual arts. Games, songs and poems with body percussion and orchestrations for the Orff instrument ensemble.

Blue Is The Sea: Music, Dance & Visual Arts (The Pentatonic Press Integrated Learning Series)

L?pez-Ibor, Sof?a

Study & Teaching

In this supplement to his much-acclaimed Now's the Time: Teaching Jazz to All Ages, music educator Doug Goodkin continues his groundbreaking work in combining jazz education with the dynamic pedagogy of Orff Schulwerk. Here he offers 35 new roots and jazz blues pieces tried and tested by children and adults and aimed for children from preschool through middle school. A CD of his student ensembles playing the arrangements is included. Also includes sample lesson plans, fully notated scores for Orff Ensemble, tips for piano teachers, children's games, vocal blues and 22 classic jazz tunes.

All Blues: Jazz for the Orff Ensemble (2) (Jazz Education Series)

In this collection, James Harding, long-time colleague and collaborator of Doug

From Wibbleton to Wobbleton: Adventures with the Elements of Music and Movement (3) (The Pentatonic Press Integrated Learning Series)

Harding, James

How might we teach in a way that uplifts both the children and ourselves? How do we give a shape and design to our classes that refreshes and energizes? How might we create a musical flow and make our classes truly sing? Revealing the thinking behind his long teaching career working with both children and adults of all ages, internationally renowned music educator Doug Goodkin guides us to making music classes--and any classes--more memorable, magical and musical. The ideas presented here will inspire all teachers to teach with more playfulness, passion and purpose.

Teach Like It's Music: An Artful Approach to Education

Orff-Schulwerk in Diverse Cultures: An Idea That Went Round the World is a commentary on the phenomenon of the rapid and worldwide dissemination of Orff Schulwerk, which has been in continuous process for more than 70 years since its origins in Central Europe. A selection of articles on the topic of adapting and adopting Orff Schulwerk is followed with contributions from countries in Asia, Africa, North and South America, and Oceania, supplemented by some European countries that have a special feature. In documenting the various adaptations of Orff Schulwerk, the authors describe characteristics and differences that result from the integration with each country's own cultural traditions and educational systems.

Orff Schulwerk in Diverse Cultures: An Idea That Went Round the World (Texts on Theory and Practice of Orff Schulwerk, 2)

Stewart, Carolee

About the Author\nWolfgang Hartmann studied Pedagogy for Grund- und Hauptschule at the University of Würzburg. After he was granted a State Scholarship from the Bavarian State Government for a study of two years at the Orff Institute (Musikuniversität “Mozarteum”) in Salzburg/Austria, he taught at two “Orff Modellschulen” (state schools with classes that have extended music lessons) in Munich. At that time, he also began to make music education programs at the radio station Bayerischer Rundfunk, the same station where Orff and Keetman presented the Orff-Schulwerk.\nFollowing the idea that you can only go as far forward as you can reach back, Wolfgang walks us through an informative and fascinating look back at the guiding principles of Orff-Schulwerk and how they developed, always with the intent to use them to inform our practice today and move it yet further forward. Many contemporary Orff-Schulwerk teachers are delighted by ideas and material in a workshop and hunger to try them out in Monday’s classes. Yet, without that deep understanding of their source and depth of artistic vision, there is the danger of mere surface teaching, lowering a once vibrant, dynamic, and alive practice down to mere fun and cute activities. Wolfgang’s book serves as a reminder to consider the essential pedagogical principles that will guide us to the kind of education that children—and artists of all ages—both need and deserve. Here is an opportunity to look back down the path to understand where we have been, how we arrived where we are, and what the next step may be.

Looking at the Roots: A Guide to Understanding Orff Schulwerk

Hartmann, Wolfgang

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