How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant

Darla Meek shares how we can implement the Orff approach with our children's church choirs. You'll hear how to use scripture and hymns as a guide to creating movement, speech, instrumental, and vocal pieces.

Darla Meek is the Music Education Coordinator and Lecturer at Texas A&M University in Commerce. She teaches undergraduate and graduate elementary music education classes and supervises student teachers. She earned her Bachelor of Music Education from Dallas Baptist University and her Master of Music from Southern Methodist University. Darla also earned a Performer’s Certificate from the Performing Artist’s Musical Theatre Conservatory in Dallas. She is currently working toward her Doctor of Education in Supervision, Curriculum, and Instruction.

Darla is certified in Kodaly and Orff Schulwerk and serves as a teacher trainer for the American Orff Schulwerk Association in both Basic Pedagogy Level I and Movement for Orff Levels Courses. She has served as assistant conductor for the Mesquite Children’s Chorus and the Children’s Chorus of Collin County and has served as Children’s Choir Coordinator for 3 churches in the Dallas area.

Darla has written children’s choir curricula for LIfeway Christian Resources and Celebrating Grace Inc. Her recorder method books Journey Around the Globe with Recorder and Flight 2: Another Journey Around the Globe With Recorder were published by Sweet Pipes, Inc. Her resource for church musicians All Things Bright and Beautiful is available through Chorister’s Guild.

She is a member of AOSA, OAKE, KET, TCDA, TMEA, Dalcroze Society of America, the College Music Society, and NAfME. She is a past President of the North Texas Chapter of AOSA. Darla is married to Keith Meek and has two children - Gregory and Aubrey.

Darla's website: www.darlameek.com

All Things Bright and Beautiful: https://www.choristersguild.org/store/cgbk74-all-things-bright-and-beautiful/7646/

TAMUC website:

http://www.tamuc.edu/academics/colleges/humanitiesSocialSciencesArts/departments/music/facultyStaff/darlaMeek.aspx

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We are just past the halfway point of 2024! It's a great time to review how you're goals are going. In today's episode, we'll look at three areas:

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You'll hear how I'm doing on a few of mine and gain a few ideas for continuing to go after yours.

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Chris Judah-Lauder Bio:

Chris Judah Lauder, a Past President of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, served as the 2017 AOSA National Conference Chair in Fort Worth, Texas, 2009 AOSA National Conference Chair in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1995 AOSA Local Conference Chair, and is currently serving as an AOSA mentor. She earned her Masters Degree in Music Education at Indiana University in South Bend, received her Orff Schulwerk certification at University of Illinois University, Urbana-Champaign and completed an Orff Master Class with Richard Gill. She has forty years of experience teaching music, movement, recorder, singing and drumming to K-8th grade students in public, private and independent schools. She was the Fine Arts Coordinator for Good Shepherd Episcopal School in Dallas, TX and co-wrote the Music Curriculum for GSES and the Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Indiana. Chris’ Orff Ensemble was selected to perform for the Opening Ceremony for the 1995 American Orff-Schulwerk Association National Conference.

Her Orff, Recorder and Drum Ensembles were also invited to perform under her direction for the Texas Music Educators Conferences in 2000, 2003, 2007, and her Drum group performed for PASIC in 2000. Her middle school students recorded a CD titled Select Beats in the Charlie Pride Recording Studio.

She has taught Orff Schulwerk certification courses to adults at fourteen universities over the past thirty years, presented over 200 conference sessions and workshops at national conferences, state music educator’s associations, school districts, and Orff chapters throughout the US, Canada, China, South Korea. She is currently serving as a Music Consultant for Title One schools in Texas, working directly in the classroom with the music teacher.

Mrs. Judah-Lauder was a contributing senior author to the 2004 McGraw-Hill textbook series Spotlight on Music and has published articles in The Orff Echo, General Music Today, Reverberations, and GSES publications. Chris has seventeen publications including: Drum with a Passion, To Drum, Canya Conga, In the Modes (Beatin’ Path Publ); Fun with Boomwhackers®, Boom Boom Classics, (Warner Brothers/Alfred); Recorder Games, Recorder Success, It Takes Two (Sweet Pipes); and Games Groups, and Gems (Heritage Music Press).

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Kathy Liperote is Assistant Professor of Music Education at the Eastman School of Music, where she teaches methods classes, observes student teachers, and supervises graduate teaching assistants. Her teaching and research focus on the music learning process, connecting aural skills to instrumental performance, and developing musicianship skills for elementary and secondary level teaching. Dr. Liperote has presented at state and regional NAfME conferences, and conducted professional development workshops most recently at Temple University, Baldwin Wallace University, and the Fort Worth Independent School District. She is also on the Instrumental Certification Faculty for the Gordon Institute for Music Learning. Prior to receiving the PhD in Music Education from the Eastman School, Dr. Liperote taught instrumental music for 15 years in the Baldwinsville and West Genesee School Districts in Central New York State. She is a graduate of the Crane School of Music and Syracuse University.

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