Rebecca Cauthen

Maine Consolidated School

Music/Spanish Teacher

Miss. Cauthen graduated from Shorter University in Georgia with a Bachelor in Piano Pedagogy (private teaching) and then went on to receive her Bachelor’s of Music Education and Masters of Music in Teaching from NAU. She has worked at Maine Consolidated School for 23 years teaching music, Spanish, band, choir, Character Counts, Mindfulness, Odyssey of the Mind, as well as gardening. She is prolific about attending continuing education classes and trainings for teachers. Her philosophy is that every student should experience and enjoy making music. The human brain lights up and engages when experiencing music and language development. Music and language learning are imperative on their own and open a completely new world to students. Her hopes and dreams are that students can bring their own music to the world and speak in multiple languages to share it. Her favorite activities in class is learning how to play the music, having students design and create their own instruments, reading novels in Spanish, and preparing to play with the symphony at the annual field trip to the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra.