Valkeakoski Music School is a unit of Valkeakoski Lifelong Learning Centre. The music school provides systematically advancing, goal-oriented music education to children and youth in Valkeakoski, Finland. A competence survey conducted among the staff of the music school indicated that one of the most important development tasks is developing individual and group teaching into an activating, motivating and stimulating direction. This is one of our main challenges for the future. This in-service training project entitled "Let's create together! Orff pedagogy in music education" aims to improve the pedagogical expertise of the staff and to develop new, innovative working methods in individual and group teaching. Group teaching is a core task at the music school, since it enables us to reach entire age groups from early childhood education to basic education for ages 7-16. This project gives us new pedagogical tools based on Orff pedagogy which combines and utilizes music, dance and play. In the project, five teachers from different instrument groups will participate in a course of Orff pedagogy in July 2014. The participating teachers will train all teachers in their own instrument group into the new pedagogical tools and their applications in Valkeakoski music school in August 2014. The new methods will be integrated into teaching activities during the 2014-2015 academic year. During the project we will also develop a model to integrate international aspects to staff development. This model will be disseminated into all of the Valkeakoski Lifelong Learning Centre arts education units in 2015. The new pedagogy will give teachers skills to use voice, various instruments, dance, movement and play in new, creative ways in both individual and group music teaching. The participants' professional skills will improve and the music school will gain new expertise. The students' motivation will grow as their own input is utilized in teaching situations in new and fun way. The ability of Valkeakoski Lifelong Learning Centre's art education units to participate in international activities will grow.