COME ORFF with US and EXPLORE the Magic of Story in Song
For K-Grade 6
We are excited to welcome Debra Giebelhaus-Maloney as our presenter for this year's Fall Classic.
For all children, imagination, learning, and the art of physical play go hand in hand! If you are a Kindergarten teacher, a classroom teacher, or a music generalist/specialist ‘COME PLAY with us! Engage in the Orff process and explore elements of music that incorporate children’s literature, singing games, listening and movement activities for Kindergarten – Grade 3. Experience patterning, the community, and our world while making numeracy and literacy connections! Investigate possibilities to stretch our Grade 4 – 6 learners using simple rhythm and chant as the foundation for creating and developing melody with body, voice, nonpitched and pitched instruments. This workshop will have something for everyone with hands‐on activities, ideas and material that encourage the development of engaged creative, confident and inspired student learners. Music is joyful Language! Language is joyful Music!
Schedule of Day:
8:30-9:30--Registration
9:00-11:30--Workshop11:30-1:00--Lunch (provided) and Sask Orff Chapter Annual General Meeting
1:00-3:30--Workshop
Our Presenter: Debra Giebelhaus-Maloney
Debra Giebelhaus-Maloney is a child advocate committed to excellence in education. An international Orff workshop leader and clinician, Debra has trained teachers in the Orff Method at UBC, U of C, U of L, U of S, Yukon College, U of Cape Breton, U of St Thomas, Catholic U of Seoul, Calgary Orff Chapter and multiple school boards. Debra holds a BFA, B. Ed. from the U of Alberta, an International Music/Movement Certification from the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria, and her M Ed from the U of New Brunswick.
An Orff/music/drama/language specialist Debra currently works as a consultant teaching clinics/course work and workshops for boards, universities and music organizations internationally. She designs Orff, choral, music, drama and integrated arts curriculum, adjudicates and delivers professional development for teachers and students from 3 years to University Level. In high demand as an Artist in Residence, Debra is immersed in core curriculum developing and creating arts integration programming links to meet unique curricular requests and specific needs of school boards/institutions and individual settings.
Before moving from Vancouver to Calgary, Debra worked full time as an Orff/Drama/Language specialist using music, movement and drama as the foundation for her programming. Working with the Seoul Metropolitan Board of Education in South Korea Debra spent a summer implementing Orff music and drama as cross-curricular language connectors with both students and teachers continuing that work with visiting Korean teachers to Canada. Debra spent ten months on line with the fourteen villages of Nunavik (one English/Inuktitut class from each school) designing and developing a cross-curricular Orff based program culminating in the creation of a regional Nunavik quilt/book (children’s writing in Inuktitut and English), a music composition, Nunavik gathering, workshop and performance with Inuit students and teachers gathering from across the north to perform the music commission. Most recently Debra travelled to Singapore to work at the Singapore Teachers Academy of the Arts delivering an Introduction to Orff for the Singapore Department of Education.
Debra is in demand as a writer and was commissioned by the Santa Anna Symphony in Orange County, California to write, present and conduct a series of four interactive concerts with an Orff flavor that exposed and introduced young children to the four Orchestral Families.
In 1992 Debra developed and began delivering the ORFF at SING MOVE PLAY children’s music program (choral based interactive Orff program) in Calgary which continues to enroll children from 3 - 9 years of age.
As a Past President of Carl Orff Canada, and a past Chair of the North American Alliance (Canadian and American music educators without borders) Debra continues to advocate for music and drama as necessary daily learning tools to support and strengthen classroom language skills as well as whole child development. Debra believes that music is an innate gift that should be integral to every child’s life and that the uniqueness of the Orff philosophy offers educators the opportunity to create, explore and develop distinctive threads in learning that will bind our children to each other, their rich cultures, and their communities!
