Enroll in an Online,
Self-Paced Video Course
for PD or Graduate Credit
Purposeful Pathways:
Composition and Improvisation
An online course that refreshes and synthesizes how to teach composition and improvisation
From Teaching With Orff and
world-renowned instructor, Roger Sams
- Ideal for when your in-person learning opportunities are limited by geography, budget, or pandemic
- Seven modules, each one a deep-dive into a lesson from Purposeful Pathways One
- 43 Instructional videos featuring Roger Sams’s personal commentary
- Integrated live workshop demonstrations with professional educators
- Homework assignments that will help build lesson plans that will free school-year Sunday nights
- Bonus materials and Q & A “Zoom” calls with Roger
- Opportunity to interact with colleagues through comments and receive responses directly from Roger
Purposeful Pathways as a book is amazing. As the subject of Roger Sams’s author-presented professional development course, it's like a comprehensive series of developmentally-sequenced workshops that blend Orff Schulwerk, Kodály and Dalcroze Eurhythmics.
About Purposeful Pathways:
Composition and Improvisation
Making Professional Development Personal
Roger Sams models how to cultivate early skills in music literacy, composition, improvisation, and dance making through an integration of Orff Schulwerk, Kodály, and Eurhythmics.
You’ll discover the importance of moving children from imitation, into exploration, and then creation while learning how to hold artful space where students are impacted by the power of aesthetic experience.
Course content areas include:
- Warm-up routine
- Music literacy skills
- Modeling musicality
- Composing with icons
- Composing with rhythmic building blocks
- Improvisation using rhythms to be completed
- Movement as a powerful learning tool
- Creating a powerful aesthetic experience
"Being able to complete this course on our time frame, from our own home, has been great! My students absolutely love the songs in the book and the different activities. They have all been successful, and my students have grown so much musically. Thank you for a wonderful experience, and for taking the time to help us become better teachers that make joyful budding musicians!"
Sherri B
Music Educator, Florida
Purposeful Pathways Book 1 Online Course
A One-Time
Payment of $495
Purchase your online course and receive immediate access. Begin learning today!
Please note Purposeful Pathways Book 1 is required material for this course and must be purchased separately.
Purposeful Pathways Book 1 Online Course
Three Monthly Payments of $180
Purchase your online course and receive immediate access. Begin learning today!
Please note Purposeful Pathways Book 1 is required material for this course and must be purchased separately.
Upon successful completion of this course, you may request a certificate from Teaching With Orff verifying 21 hours of professional development contact time.
You also have the option of earning 1 hour of college credit through Ashland University.
There is an additional $185 fee payable directly to Ashland University for this credit.
No start or end date for your course. Work at your own pace.
Repeat modules as many times as you like.
Perfect for license renewal or salary advancement.
Graduate credit availlable.
Roger Sams has empowered music teachers around the world
With 31 years of experience teaching music in public and private schools and consulting for educators around the world, Roger shares his unique perspectives, methods and philosophies and wisdom in bite-size pieces you can use immediately.
- Access Roger's training on a self-paced schedule and experience what educators around the world rave about.
- Enjoy the highest quality training that makes it feel like Roger is talking right to YOU - because he is!
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Frequently Asked Questions
The lessons in this course are taken from Purposeful Pathways: Possibilities for the Elementary Music Room, Book 1, written by Roger Sams and BethAnn Hepburn. This book is required material for this online course. If you do not yet own a copy, please purchase the book.
Absolutely! Your school administrator can send a PO to us via email at [email protected]. Please have the PO made out to MMB Music, which is the parent organization for Teaching With Orff. consequat.Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
You will have access to Roger's course for at least one year from the date of purchase. There is no start or end date for your course. You can work at your own pace and repeat modules as often as you'd like.
Of course! Upon successful completion of this course, you may request a certificate from Teaching With Orff verifying 21 hours of professional development contact time. Simply email your request to [email protected] and our team will be happy to assist.
Absolutely! You have the option of earning 1 hour of college credit through Ashland University. A final project is required, and there is an additional $185 fee payable directly to Ashland University for this credit.
If you have unanswered questions, drop us a note at [email protected] and our team will be happy to help!
"This class has been so helpful to me! I feel like, as a "seasoned" teacher, I do many things well and my kids are musical, literate and enjoy music classes. But I have not known how to help them be consistently successful at creating and improvising and composing. This has given me so many tools to help them. It's opened up a whole new world of teaching for me, and I'm really looking forward to empowering my kids to be joyful music makers and creators! "
