Orff Schulwerk NSW – Dr Sue Lane

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Creative ideas to explore music and movement in K-6 classrooms

This session will introduce simple creative ways to take your students on a music and movement learning journey using the Orff-Schulwerk approach.  Participants will experience fun ideas to gradually develop musical skills and understanding through active music-making, including speech and singing activities, body percussion and movement. The session will also explore ways to introduce simple composition, with fun ideas for improvisation using percussion instruments and found sound sources.

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Sue Lane

Sue Lane

ABC Let’s Sing, Education Writer
Music in Me Summit presenter

Dr Sue Lane has had much experience as a music specialist and classroom teacher in a variety of school settings on the Central Coast of NSW. She worked for many years with pre-service teachers in Early Childhood and Primary Music and Dance Education programs at the University of Newcastle and the University of Technology, Sydney. Sue is a Lead Mentor with Music in Me, the National Music Teacher Mentoring Program and regularly presents teacher workshops with Musica Viva Australia In Schools and Sydney Symphony Education. Sue completed her PhD in 2019 and is passionate about her research work related to arts education provision in Australian primary schools.  Recently Sue was awarded the James Sturgiss Exceptional Service Award from the Professional Teachers Council NSW, acknowledging her work in music education and her advocacy, leadership and active support to educators, through the Orff Schulwerk Association of NSW.

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About Orff-Schulwerk NSW

Orff Schulwerk is an approach to music education pioneered by German composer Carl Orff (1895-1982) and his colleague, Gunild Keetman. Its foundation was concerned with the child: the needs of the child and the emphasis on nourishing the musicality of each child through elemental activities in music and movement.

The Orff teaching process involves singing, body percussion, playing on a variety of both tuned and untuned instruments, movement and dancing, and speech activities to encourage active music making.