Our 2019 Beacon Scholarship Recipient: Scott Roether
Scott Roether is currently employed at Wilson Elementary School in Cincinnati, Ohio, a traditional public school facility for students in Kindergarten through Sixth Grade. He has the privilege of serving nearly 700 students ages five through twelve both in traditional general music settings and in choral settings. He consistently uses creative and elemental approaches to teaching music including the Orff approach and regularly draws from his past experiences as a participant in various summer courses in elemental music and movement. Scott has worked with children in various educational settings for the past six years (formal settings beginning in 2013, informal and pre-professional settings prior to 2013). The programs Scott has been involved with include traditional elementary music classrooms, after school programs, summer programs, and teaching in a facility that hosted interdisciplinary field trips for elementary school students.
Scott has used elemental approaches to teaching music since his graduation from Ohio University in 2013 where he received his Bachelor of Music, Music Education with Performance Honors. These approaches did not come to fruition in the classroom until his enrollment in an Orff-Schulwerk Levels training course at the University of Cincinnati the following summer. Since his enrollment in that course, the Schulwerk and its associated approaches and processes have greatly impacted Scott’s teaching style, benefited his students, and shaped his life as a music educator and musician. In fact, nearly all of the recent successes and joys in life, both professional and personal, can be traced to his first Levels training course. Scott has since completed Levels II and III at the same university and has pursued additional training at the International Summer Course in Elemental Music and Dance Pedagogy at the Orff-Institute in Salzburg, Austria. There has been such an impact on both his students and himself due to his involvement in elemental music training.
Stay tuned for more information on Scott’s experiences in the Master Class in Elemental Explorations and the Orff Schulwerk Curriculum Course at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas!
