Critical Analysis
Over this semester I have throughly enjoyed learning The Orff method. In conjunction with learning about this in class I have all researched through my own sources to further my knowledge and understanding of what the benefits are and the advantages it can give children. For me the biggest challenge I initially had was being able to convey clear instructions with out talking and explaining what to do and the idea of body movement/visuals being the instructions. This really challenged my thinking and at first I was very skeptical of it. It wasn't until I tried some of the class concepts in my guitar tuition with own students that I realised that this method really does work and is super fun and effective.
This is a great quote from a journal article I looked at over the semester which talks about children/Orff learning:
"The child is personally engaged with the music, the movement, the people involved, the ideas, the anticipation and reasoning, the logic and imagining, the satisfaction and joy which is engendered through learning and growing in understanding." (Phillips_Silver & Trainor, 2007, p534).
During the semester I watched this video of a teacher explaining how great Orff is in the classroom as a teacher and as a young student. Teacher Sharon Mazion talks about how Orff methods are impo
rtant as it is "realising the creativity from a child" (Sharon Mazion, 2014) . As a student in KIME this semester I can confidently say that the practical elements of this class certainly released a lot of creativity out of me.
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