Getting students to buy into the project of a course has become a more urgent challenge in recent years, many professors say. While many students are distracted by smart phones, tempted by generative ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. JEFFERSON – Janice F. Orff, 93, of Jefferson, passed away peacefully with ...

Amy Brown has published a new book which offers a wide range of Orff process lesson plans with special guidance for success with diverse learners. All four sections, titled Sing, Say, Dance, and Play, ...

Education technology companies are increasingly promoting artificial intelligence as a way to save teachers’ time—especially when it comes to lesson planning. But when it comes to crafting engaging ...

One of the mistakes of teaching, I’ve learned through my years as a part-time professor, is to prepare so much that the students have no choice but to become passive recipients of knowledge that has ...

My wife and I like to travel to other countries, but we always face a familiar obstacle -- how to learn the language well enough to converse with people. We've tried taking language lessons, yet we ...

Water activities are a source of enjoyment for people of all ages, but they also come with inherent risks. Drowning remains a leading cause of unintentional injury-related deaths among children in the ...

The Linda Ronstadt Music Hall stage packed with nearly 300 musicians performing Carl Orff’s magnificent, larger-than-life masterpiece “Carmina Burana.” But it was more than just optics. It was 65 ...

José Luis Gomez will conduct his first ever “Carmina Burana” this weekend when his Tucson Symphony Orchestra mounts Carl Orff’s singular choral masterpiece. He blames it on timing. His former Italian ...

Who knew that combining a sweet story about an adorable penguin and one about the atrocities of a political uprising in 1976 Argentina could have such charm? “The Penguin Lessons” does just that, ...

‘The Penguin Lessons’ dodges schmaltz and finds genuine warmth—thanks in large part to Steve Coogan’s dry wit and one tenacious bird. Image by Andrea Resmini/Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Running ...