Enrollment and Material Fees

Online registration is available beginning February 17, 2026 and will remain open until May 1st, 2026. A $400.00 non-refundable deposit in the amount of $400.00 for Level I, and  Level III is due at registration. Account balance is due on the first day of class, June 2nd, 2026. If attendance does not meet AOSA minimum, the course will cancel and deposits will be returned by May 31, 2026.

Early Bird Pricing until April 15th, 2025

Until April 15, 2026
Level One $750.00
Level Three $750.00
April 16, 2026
Level One $800.00
Level Three $800.00

Workshop Materials

A variety of books and a recorder are required for each participant (soprano for Level 1; soprano and alto for Level 3). All workshop materials will be available for online purchase from West Music. Clinicians will set the materials list by April 1st when exact costs are established.

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Jason GlashauserJason Glashauser   (Level I)

Jason Glashauser teaches pre-K to 6th-grade general music for Clinton City Schools in Clinton, Tennessee. Jason was named a CMA Foundation Music Teacher of Excellence in 2022, 2023, and 2025 and received a Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship in 2016. Jason is a member of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, where he is a certified teacher educator. He is also a member of the Tennessee Music Educators Association, the Eastern Tennessee General Music Educators Association, and the International Horn Society. In addition, he is currently the president of the Southern Appalachian AOSA chapter.

 

 

 

Daniel Johnson   (Recorder)

Daniel Johnson is a Professor of Music Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where he coordinates the undergraduate and graduate music education programs. Having taught as a Fulbright Scholar at the Orff-Institute in Salzburg, Austria, he is an international authority on Orff-Schulwerk and regularly presents at teacher-education courses and workshops across the country and abroad. During the past three decades, his teaching experience has spanned the PK - university gamut with a focus on general music education.

 

 

CYNDEE GIEBLER

Cyndee Giebler  (Level III)  

CYNDEE GIEBLER lives and teaches in northeast Wisconsin. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and completed her master’s degree at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. She has presented workshops for American Orff-Schulwerk Association chapters around the country as well as state, regional, and national conventions. In her spare time, Cyndee enjoys composing and arranging music for classroom use, children’s chorus, and elementary strings.

 

 

 

Jennifer Lucas

Jennifer Lucas    (Movement)

Jennifer Lucas is a thirty-one year veteran of Missouri public schools. She teaches K-5 General Music as well as an extra-curricular choir club and percussion ensemble at Pheasant Point Elementary School in O’Fallon, Missouri, where she started her elementary music journey in 1998. Jennifer completed Orff Levels at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and is an approved Teacher Educator for Level One, Two, and Three Movement. In addition to teaching summer levels courses in Oklahoma and Tennessee, she is an active member of her St. Louis chapter, serving in the role of Associate Treasurer, presenting professional development for chapter members and for her local district. She enjoys teaching all grades and ages but especially values the Orff process for her elementary students because of the joy it brings to her classroom.

 

 

 

 

 

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Orff Schulwerk is a unique approach to music education. Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman founded this child-centered approach that connects speech, movement, song, instruments, and listening, emphasizing creativity and active engagement by the children. Within these connections, the Orff approach addresses all aspects of a child’s musical development— performing, creating, listening, and analyzing—in ways that encourage the child’s joyful imagination and musical spirit.

 

Level One

Level 1 focuses on the foundational principles of Orff-Schulwerk, a music education approach developed by Carl Orff. Students explore music through active participation, including speech, singing, movement, playing instruments, and improvisation. The course emphasizes the development of musical skills such as rhythm, melody, and harmony in a hands-on, creative environment. This course is especially appropriate for elementary and middle school general music specialists serving children in school and church settings.

Level Three

Level 3 builds upon the foundations established in earlier levels, with a greater emphasis on refining and expanding teaching techniques and musical skills. Participants deepen their understanding of Orff-Schulwerk’s core principles, including improvisation, ensemble playing, and the integration of complex rhythms and harmonies. The course encourages teachers to design and lead more sophisticated, multi-layered activities that incorporate both individual and group work. Level 3 places a stronger focus on developing creative problem-solving skills in students, guiding them to explore composition, arrangement, and more intricate musical structures. Teachers also refine their ability to assess and respond to students’ developmental needs. The course promotes a collaborative approach to teaching, where students are encouraged to contribute ideas and shape the learning process.

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About the Course

The daily schedule will include basic Orff pedagogy, recorder, movement, and special topics that will differ each day. Orff media include vocal exploration through song and speech, and barred percussion such as xylophones, metallophones, and glockenspiels as well as a wide variety of unpitched percussion instruments through which participants encounter the process. Foundational techniques include improvisation, composition, exploration of tonal and rhythmic ostinati, and bordun accompaniments.

Please direct any questions to course director Jason Glashauser at [email protected]. 
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Dr. Kay Dick
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Music Education
Lee University, School of Music
1120 N. Ocoee St., Cleveland, TN 37311
Phone: (423) 614-8257
Email: [email protected]

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