Tips for starting horn students off right, improving sound for established students, pitch problems and all your questions answered. We encourage workshop attendees to bring in their school horns to participate. Clinician: Lauren Scobie & James Tizzard Focus: Band Location: Summit Lodge 52 Sponsor: Interlude 2017 scobietizzard_SOSFRENCHHORN_FRIDAY_session1...

All bands can play in tune! How do we do it? Where do we start? An in depth look at developing best practices for teaching intonation in the instrumental music classroom. Clinician: Greg Colley Focus: Band Location: Waterhouse 3 Sponsor: Interlude 2017 Building Great Intonation...

Collaboration (Beyond the Arts) presents an exploration of how music curriculum can be utilized in all academic areas. Concrete examples of collaborative expectations between music and all other subjects will enable departments to enhance the application of music and role that it plays within the academic structure of today’s secondary schools. Clinician: Jeff Wrigglesworth Focus:...

A traditional Western music history curriculum (the default of so many of us) doesn’t serve many of the diverse courses being taught in the province and is often not engaging to the contemporary student. The curriculum document offers an alternative that is seldom used to its full advantage. In this workshop, we will unpack the...

This workshop will give an overview of Chinese music that will prove beneficial to any teacher who is interested in World Music. Connections will be made to Western/Canadian music. Clinician: Wenxian Lyu and Dr. Jonathan Bayley Focus: All Location: Summit Lodge 54 Sponsor: Interlude 2017 OMEA 2017 Presentation (Lyu & Bayley)...

As teachers, we need to continue to make the creation of positive and healthy environments for our students a bigger priority in our schools. Music and music education, provide opportunities for us to create protective, accepting environments for the large contingent of students in Ontario schools struggling with mental health and wellness issues. Youth need...

In these sessions, researchers whose papers have been chosen for presentation through peer review will showcase a poster presentation describing their research and be available during the presentation session to informally discuss their work with interested music educators. Also during this session, each researcher will provide a brief ten-minute overview of their work. Facilitator: Dr....

The purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate the scope and sequence of teaching beginner musicians (typically with 1 year of experience playing concert band instruments) and how to develop an improvisational vocabulary for playing jazz (or any other style of improvised music). Clinician: Cameron Bond Focus: Jazz Location: JEH MacDonald Sponsor: Interlude 2017 First...

Join us on a trip to the most northern part of Canada to experience the call of the Aurora Borealis. Through music, movement, drama and visual art, participants will collaborate to create a magical journey of the Northern Lights. The joy of arts integration in our classroom is inherent in the Orff Schulwerk. From dance...

The Ministry of Education provided funding to the OMEA to develop resources for classroom teachers utilizing the Aga Khan Museum collections of Muslim arts and music. All resources created are available to Ontario educators through the OMEA website. One of the project’s objectives is to “expand students’ knowledge and understanding of the traditional music of...

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Participants will rotate through centres that teach musical concepts while supporting music literacy through inquiry. In this workshop, participants will explore basic Orff activities, participate in music games that teach specific musical concepts, learn basic steps to composition with instant success, and explore various assessment and evaluation strategies. This is a great session for new...

Talk less–play, sing, move, listen and create more! This workshop is filled with active ideas to discover, explore and reflect upon the fundamental concepts and elements of music. Experience/explore how your students can be delightfully engaged when experiencing music in auditory, visual and kinesthetic ways. Enhance your students’ excitement and musicality with manipulatives, movement, instruments,...

Borrowing from Literacy and Numeracy pedagogy, using small groups to teach theory allows for differentiation and teaching specifically to each student’s level. The workshop will show how to set up the small groups as well as solving the problem of what to do with the rest of the class, while increasing the opportunity for student...