All posts by Amy Rothe

Amy Rothe is an early childhood teacher and musician. She started her career in classical music but quickly transferred to music education. Amy taught early childhood music for many years across the ACT and surrounding regional NSW. In 2019, she gained her graduate diploma in early childhood teaching. Amy has a range of experience in early childhood education as a teacher, educational leader and curriculum developer and strongly advocates for music in early childhood education.

Music education and play-based learning

Image provided by author, Amy Rothe. Australian early learning settings follow a play-based pedagogy, in line with the emphasis placed on play in the national frameworks. Music is not a core part of this pedagogy, perhaps because of the perception that music education is about rote instruction, practising scales and reading notation—compared to play-based learning, […]

Music in early learning

Inspired by the comments on my previous post, I wanted to write about the practical ways in which educators can facilitate teaching of music in early learning settings. There is growing evidence about the numerous benefits of teaching children music. In early learning settings, music can be used as a learning tool to facilitate growth […]

Early Childhood Music Education: Does delivery matter?

Research shows us the benefits of music for language and literacy as well as self-regulation and mental health. But does how we teach music matter?Musician and early childhood teacher, AMY ROTHE explores different methods of teaching music to young children, such as the Suzuki method, and delves into her personal teaching experiences and practice. When you […]

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