Music Curriculum Overview
The Lake Forest School District 67 elementary music curriculum employs and eclectic approach to teaching music and to reaching curricular goals through the use of several strategies including Dalcroze, Kodaly, and, fundamentally, Orff Schulwerk (named after composer and creator, Carl Orff). The Orff approach to music education engages students in making music through singing, movement, playing pitched and unpitched percussion instruments, improvisation, and composition. Student learning is achieved through imitation, exploration, conceptual understanding, improvisation, composition, and assessment. Assessment is largely ongoing and informal, yet also includes self-, peer-, and teacher-directed evaluations.
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