 Welcome to the TAOC website. We hope you will find the site and the offerings of the chapter helpful. Our main purpose is to encourage great teaching in the elementary music classroom here in the panhandle of Florida and in lower Alabama and Georgia, using the methods and approach called "Orff Schulwerk." We are a chapter of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association. Our workshops for 2011-2012 Workshops are
appropriate for persons with any amount of Orff background. September 24, 2011, 9:00-1:00 November 5, 2011, 9:00-12:00 November 9-12, 2011 January 11-14, 2012: Links AOSA Corporate Sponsors: We are very excited and appreciative that Mr. Arnold Burkhart has donated these Orff instruments to TAOC! Mr. Burkhart was the first president of the American Orff-Sect, and we are very grateful for his generosity to our chapter. TAOC members may apply to this grant for the 2012-2013 school year by completing the Burkhart Grant Application attached at the bottom of this page and e-mailing it to our chapter presidents in April.  See larger image here: | Officers for 2011-2012 Co-President: Mary Register Co-President: Ruth Mason Corresponding Secretary: Megan Buckley Treasurer: Patty Callendar Panhandle Liaison: Karen Smith Membership
National and local memberships run from July 1 to June 30.
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ABOUT AOSA AOSA, the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is a professional organization of music and movement educators dedicated to the creative teaching approach developed by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman. We are joined by our belief that learning about music - learning to sing and play, to hear and understand, to move and create - should be an active and joyful experience. Its mission is to: |