AKTS. Aileen Miracle. Performance and Technology in the Music Classroom. Arizona Kodály Teachers Society Welcomes:

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1 Volume XXXVIII Issue 1 Spring 2016 Arizona Kodály Teachers Society Welcomes: Aileen Miracle Performance and Technology in the Music Classroom Arizona Kodály Teachers Society An affiliate chapter of the Organization of American Kodály Educators AKTS Inside this issue: Upcoming Workshop Information 1 President s Message 2 Fall 2016 Workshop Information 3 Koda ly in Your Classroom 4-5 Donation Sales, Door Prize 6 Bene-its, Quilt Raf-le 7 ASU Summer Study 8 Fall 2015 Workshop Re-lection 9 The -irst part of the workshop will show how to effectively use technology in your music classroom, including websites, YouTube videos, SMART board, and ipad apps, to engage and excite your students, and save you valuable time! Strategies for more studentcentered learning using technology will also be presented. The workshop will then segue into -itting performances into a Kodaly-inspired curriculum, and will showcase songs, dances, and videos from tried-and-true performances, based on themes, children's literature, and various cultures. Different performance models will be discussed, such as informances, concerts, and musicals, and rehearsal formats will be explored. Time will be given for participants to collaborate and create a musical program based on a picture book. Saturday, March 5, 2016, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (8:30 a.m. registration) OAKE members $25, Non-members $30, Full-time students with ID Free. University of Arizona Room 232 Fred Fox School of Music, Tucson, AZ Earn Four Professional Development Hours. For more info, contact Joshua Block. AKTS Board Members President: Joshua Block: blockjoshua@yahoo.com Past President: Lisa Harney: lisatues@hotmail.com President Elect: Topher Keene: topherkeene@gmail.com Secretary: Mandy Wolff: mandywcooke@gmail.com Treasurer: Jana Gorodishter: jana@janacontario.com Historian: Keira Prather: kprather@pvlearners.net Member-at-Large: Megan Rodriguez: meganhensberry@gmail.com Member-at-Large: Kevin Powell: k.powell@icloud.com Regional Reps: Jeffrey Erickson: sallumberg@gmail.com Rachel Helton rachelhale86@gmail.com Leo Lai mr.leolai@gmail.com Early Registration & UofA 10

2 President s Message: Joshua Block Dear Friends, I hope your spring semester is going well. We started this school year off with Denise Gagne presenting Dollar Store Divas, Favorite Storybooks, and Centers in the Music Room on September 19, Please read Kevin Powell s recap of the workshop later on in the newsletter. Spring Workshop We will continue our workshops this spring with Aileen Miracle presenting Performance and Technology in the Music Classroom on Saturday, March 5, 2016 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Room 232 in the music building on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson. For further professional development opportunities and events, please see our calendar of events. OAKE Conference The OAKE National Conference California Gold will be held in Long Beach, CA March 10-13, I will be representing AKTS at the conference and hope to see many of you there. Facebook Group In addition to our website and Facebook page, we now have a Facebook group. This is a great place to not only receive information about the chapter, but interact with other members of chapter. You can ask and answer questions and post pictures from workshops or materials that you have made for your students. Please join our Facebook group and enjoy the digital community! ASU Summer Levels Courses Arizona State University will again be offering Koda ly Levels courses June 6-17, Please see the Summer Study chart later in the newsletter detailing the information about the courses. In addition, AKTS will be offering scholarships to help defray the costs of levels courses. Please check out our website at for more information and to download the scholarship application. Thank you. On behalf of the Arizona Koda ly Teachers Society board, we look forward to seeing you at our March workshop! Sincerely, Joshua Block AKTS President Aileen Miracle teaches general music and band in the Olentangy Local School District near Columbus, Ohio. At her elementary school, she teaches grades K, 1, 3, 4, and 5, as well as 5th grade band, and 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade choir. This is her "ifteenth year teaching; previously, she taught in Lancaster City Schools as well as Utica Community Schools in Utica, Michigan. Aileen received her Bachelor of Music Education from Central Michigan University in 1999, and her Master of Music in Music Education from Capital University in 2003; she completed her masters studies at the Kodály Institute in Kecskemet, Hungary. Aileen serves as President of the Midwest Kodály Music Educators of America, Past President of the Tri-City Kodály Educators, and serves on the board of the Organization of American Kodály Educators. She has taught Level III for DePaul University's Kodály Program and Level I Methodology and Folk Song Research for Colorado State University's Kodály Program, currently teaches Level I Methodology and Folk Song Research for DePaul University's Kodály Program, and presents workshops across the nation. She enjoys spending time with her family, scrapbooking, and blogging. PAGE 2 AKTS NEWSLETTER

3 Fall 2016 Workshop Fall 2016 AKTS Workshop: Saturday, September 24, 2016 at ASU Gammage Andrew Ellingsen Orff Schulwerk & Kodály: Stronger Together Music teachers often feel they need to choose between the Koda ly and Orff Schulwerk philosophies of music education, but both approaches center on helping children discover music and creativity in a natural way. Why choose when you can do both? Come sing, say, dance, and play see how incorporating techniques from both Orff Schulwerk and Koda ly inspired teaching can strengthen the teaching already happening in your classroom. Participants will learn a variety of repertoire ranging from folk music to source material from the Orff Schulwerk volumes and will explore how the two pedagogies can intertwine to support students in their music making and musical learning. Andrew Ellingsen teaches elementary music and works as an instructional coach in Decorah, IA. He earned his B.A. at Luther College and his M.A.M.E. at the University of St. Thomas with a dual concentration in Kodály and Orff Schulwerk. He has served on the OAKE national board, a committee for AOSA, and has held leadership positions in state and regional organizations for both Orff Schulwerk and Kodály. Ellingsen teaches in the Orff Courses in at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the University of Memphis, and has presented at both OAKE and AOSA national conferences. Are you an active AKTS Member? When you join OAKE, The Organization of American Koda ly Educators, please list AKTS as your af-iliate chapter. Our Chapter and Division receive a bonus from OAKE to help bring amazing clinicians to Arizona! You may contact OAKE at (310) or by at info@oake.org. Thanks! Visit the National Conference website: V O LU M E XX X V I I I I S S U E 1 PAGE 3

4 Kodály in Your Classroom by Dr. Shelly Cooper Kodály in Your Classroom by Dr. Shelly Cooper, University of Arizona Salamanca Market Salamanca Market is a street market in Hobart, Tasmania in Australia. It is a major tourist attraction as there are more than 300 vendors who sell everything from fresh produce to arts and crafts to -ine gifts. In the courtyard of the Salamanca Arts Centre you ll also enjoy music and dancing. Salamanca Market is a catchy melody that interests students of all ages and serves as a great tool for preparing or practicing sets of 4-sixteenth notes. Process: Review Song while distributing envelopes with eight strips of 4-beat icon patterns Sing song and have students tap the steady beat Sing song and have students tap the rhythm of the text Have students determine which 4-beat icon patterns match the song and place them in order on the beat page. (Note: There purposely more strips than the song length and some patterns included that are not in the song.) Extension 1: Have students transfer the icons to traditional notation Read the rhythms using rhythm duration syllables (ta, ti-ti, etc.) PAGE 4 AKTS NEWSLETTER

5 Extension 2: Use one or two of the 4-beat patterns as an ostinato to accompany the song Transfer ostinato to unpitched and/or pitched percussion instruments 2016 S. Cooper All rights reserved Remember to visit to download supporting PDF materials that match previous Kodály in Your Classroom articles. Look on the Newsletters page. Thank you! VOLUME XXXVIII ISSUE 1 PAGE 5

6 Donation Sales, Door Prize, and Raffle Item Donation Sales The Arizona Koda ly Teachers Society would like to thank Angela Jacobs for her generous donation of Koda ly materials to the AKTS chapter. We are selling these materials to raise money speci-ically for Scholarships for people taking summer levels courses at Arizona State University. We will have these items for sale at our workshops. We will accept cash or check for these sales. There is something for everyone! AKTS Door Prize Claterpillar AKTS will be raf-ling off a Door Prize at our Spring Workshop! Each workshop attendee will automatically be entered to win the Claterpillar. Raf:le Stir Drum and Special Sales Raf-le tickets are -ifty cents each or three for one dollar. We will also have many Special Sales items available for purchase. PAGE 6 AKTS NEWSLETTER

7 OAKE Member Benefits, Quilt Raffle OAKE Member Bene:its We often hear, why should we join OAKE? when we are doing registrations at the AKTS workshops. Well, there are several reasons. First, you receive discounted admission to professional development workshops sponsored by OAKE here in Arizona and throughout the nation. These discounts really add up. You also receive a copy of the Kodály Envoy, our national publication. This resource is a valuable source of information -illed with lesson ideas, literature reviews, and choral programming ideas to name a few. There are also scholarship opportunities, discounted prices on publications by OAKE, and online access to lesson plans written by master teachers. Full-time students can access all of this for just $20. Full-time students can also be members for FREE if they do not wish to receive the subscription to the Kodály Envoy. When joining OAKE please list AKTS as your chapter. We receive grants based on our membership numbers and it is helpful to have as many members as possible. This amazing quilt, which was created by Nancy Weeks, will be raf-led off at our spring workshop in Tucson. Be sure to purchase your raf-le tickets at the workshop that day! You will be able to buy one raf-le ticket for -ifty cents or three for one dollar. VOLUME XXXVIII ISSUE 1 PAGE 7

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9 Fall Workshop 2015: Denise Gagne Kevin Powell On September 19, 2015, Denise Gagne presented a workshop entitled The Dollarama Diva Manipulatives in the Music Room. She began the session with us exploring the difference between beat and rhythm using the song Engine #9. She shared with us a number of affordable and handy manipulatives from the Dollar Store. One versatile example involved utilizing Cookie Sheets and magnets to show melodic and rhythmic dictation, as well as Treble clef note recognition. Another favorite involved making Bug Bags with a variety of rubber bugs to create Bug compositions, an ostinato, or a B section in conjunction with folk songs such as Snail, Snail, Johnny Caught a Flea and Bats. Other engaging highlights included a moving Paper Plate routine to Tchaikovsky s Swan Lake, a Tennis ball routine to Mendelssohn s Wedding March and connecting Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes with Grieg s In the Hall of the Mountain King. She shared her expertise regarding using Learning Centers and how they encourage children to make choices, work independently and cooperatively, while allowing the teacher to address children s individual learning styles. We had fun practicing note recognition and values by playing Note Name Battleship, Rhythm Dice Games, and Treble Trouble. Lastly, Mrs. Gagne shared a few strategies for incorporating Favorite Storybooks in the music classroom. We explored dynamics, high/low, fast/slow with Robert Munsch s books, Mortimer, Up Up Down, and Love You Forever. AKTS appreciated the knowledge and expertise provided by Denise Gagne and we thank her for visiting Phoenix and presenting for our chapter! VOLUME XXXVIII ISSUE 1 PAGE 9

10 362 W. Macaw Dr. Chandler, AZ AR IZ ON A KOD ÁL Y T EACHERS SOCIET Y WWW. ARIZ ON AKOD AL Y.ORG AN AF F IL IAT E CH APT ER OF T HE ORGAN IZ AT ION OF AMER IC AN KO DÁL Y EDUC AT ORS MUSIC FOR EVERYONE Joshua Block Karlena Leal Newsletter Editors AKTS Newsletter A Publication of the Arizona Kodály Teachers Society OAKE on the web at: Directions to UofA Fred Fox School of Music (see map below) ARIZONA KODARLY TEACHERS SOCIETY PRE-REGISTRATION FORM Name Date Address City Zip Home Phone Workshop Fee OAKE Member $25.00 Non-Member $30.00 Full-time Student Free with ID Please make checks payable to AKTS. Mail to: AKTS c/o Jana Gorodishter 362 W. Macaw Dr. Chandler, AZ Work Phone School District