Jo Ella Hug
April 12, 2014Imitation to Improvisation, It's All in the Process
When students are engaged with hands-on learning that is developmentally appropriate and carefully guided, sophisticated musical results can be achieved starting with the simplest of materials. Clear teaching process in combination with elemental music-making allows the learner to engage from introduction to culmination. Workshop will focus on original source materials (Keetman & Orff), folk songs and other musical resources.
Please note: The activities in this workshop will focus on lessons for grades 4 - 7 and include singing, moving, barred instruments, untuned percussion and recorder. Participants should bring all available voices of recorders.
Bio:
Jo Ella Hug is a recently retired teacher from Missoula, Montana. In 38 years of public school teaching, she has taught all ages of students from Kindergarten through adults, but her most recent and long-lasting specialty was teaching emerging adolescent learners in middle school. In the summer, she has been part of Orff Schulwerk Teacher Education at various Universities including the program at the University of St Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Jo Ella has been included 4 times in the annual publication of Who's Who Among America's Teachers. She has presented numerous workshops around the USA and Canada as well as many AOSA National Conference Sessions. Jo Ella has been a headliner at the National Conference of Carl Orff Canada in 2000 and 2010; has presented for NAfME All-Northwest and the NAfME 2008 National Conference in Milwaukee. She is a Past President of AOSA.