The material presented in the Teacher's Manual goes well beyond what beginning books usually provide the teacher, and help a non-recorder specialist with many of the technical and pedagogical details that will make them better teachers. The Teaching Units are intended to help the classroom teacher organize the presentation of element, the 86 pieces in the Student Songbook are carefully selected and sequenced to the Teaching Units, and the Notes on the Songs provide useful additional material for the creative teacher.
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His goal was not to produce professional musicians, although many fine ones have come out of that program, but to produce a musically-literate populace with a love of fine music. The tools are not the method. Orff methodology uses many of the same tools, but with different goals. Both methods are useful and effective, but they are not the same. A well-trained ear 2.