In three days, three teachers, Chen Haiyan and Ji He, led us on a pilgrimage to meet Orff. The three teachers who have received systematic Orff study and training have more experience in bringing Orff teaching method into the music class and preschool education class for new talents. These special backgrounds enable students not only to experience Orff of pure blood, but also to understand the essence of Orff's localization.
Orff music teaching method is one of the three major music education systems in the world. Its most prominent feature is that from Orff's education system, you can learn from a one-year-old child to a centenarian, regardless of your music basic geometry. Experiencing Orff's teaching is like talking to this master of music education. His great educational thoughts and concepts have crossed the times and regions and the boundaries of disciplines. They are not only applicable to every teacher and student who wants to learn music, but also inspire all learners and educators.
Before signing up for training, many teachers asked: I have no music foundation. Is it suitable for this training? The trainer said: as long as you wear loose clothes and are suitable for sports. Therefore, just like we wear comfortable and casual clothes, the course of starting Orff's teaching experience is completely relaxed and devoted.
? Look at the teacher of Orff Workshop: You are from kindergarten and I am from Cambridge High School; You teach children to dance and I teach them math; You do psychological counseling, and I focus on discipline and routine ... teachers from different departments and disciplines. Identity is not an obstacle, and discipline is not a boundary, because all teachers can feel and express.
Through various games and activities designed by the trainer, the body and mind are released in music, rhythm, drama, dance and painting, and the body and mind are completely integrated.
Listen: There are all kinds of beats, long, short, clapping and stamping. Our voice, actions and language can all be part of the beat. We should keep up with the beat and create the beat.
Look: there are all kinds of movements. With the beat and music rhythm, our bodies can be used for dancing, modeling and sculpture.
? Sports: All spaces can be our stage. Motion extends in space, sound spreads in space, and space is also felt through motion and sound.
? Thinking: Imagine voices from life and nature. We imagine the sound of raindrops, the sound of villages when the sun rises, the sound of waves lapping on the coast, and then play to find the most suitable musical instrument to express these sounds;
? Acting: every emotion of joy, anger, sadness and joy; How to show your height, height and fatness, so that your other half can find you as soon as possible? A group of small partners, how to carry out a mechanical linkage? Many people, many movements, many voices, it is the rhythm that makes them so harmonious.
? There are also paintings, props or human sculptures. Our experience is not limited to sound and action.
So, what kind of feeling is it to attend such a course?
Forget who you are-you don't need to consider maintaining your identity as a teacher, miss or Mr., without any constraints, you just need to feel and experience, and fully express yourself-like a child, with its own ears, eyes, nose, body and movements;
Always focus-everyone goes all out; Everyone is both a participant and a leader of the activity; So they should follow the rhythm and show their creativity.
Creativity-experience, feel, create and express, mobilize all senses and all bodies, and create and express very freely and instinctively;
Positive and cheerful-it is human instinct to feel and express, without the pressure and anxiety of being evaluated.
Most of the teachers who attended the workshop were not music majors. After three days of experience, we can get a glimpse of the richness of the art world. It turns out that music is not just a simple performance, singing or dancing, it may be any kind of sound, or it may be a combination of sounds, the rhythm of limbs, the expression of limbs, and the natural expression of thoughts, thoughts and feelings. Art learning is not a daunting temple. We can start with the feelings, experiences and expressions of nature and life.
In addition to music enlightenment, the enlightenment of teaching ideas and teaching methods is particularly important. Orff's teaching thought transcends the boundaries of disciplines. The teaching thought it conveys, such as not locking itself in a certain profession or a certain sense, respecting the natural features of music, stimulating learners' instinct, encouraging learners to respect their feelings, fully experiencing and expressing themselves, is applicable to learning any discipline.
The experience of teaching activities and games gives us the enlightenment of specific curriculum design. Orff's teaching activities fully stimulate learners' creative instinct and let us experience a happy, positive, dedicated and creative classroom. The learning motivation, concentration, interest stimulation, creation and expression discussed by everyone seem to have a solution at once. Teachers can't wait to apply Orff's teaching philosophy and design to their own disciplines and classrooms, and have made many teaching plans, which have been well received by the instructors.
Maybe besides Orff music, we will also see Orff mathematics, Orff language and Orff concentration.