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Teaching Young Children (TYC)—NAEYC's award-winning magazine for classroom educators—highlights current thinking on best practices in early childhood education, innovations in the field, research and its implications, and interesting ideas for and from preschool teachers.

 

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Teaching Young Children
January 3, 2023

I Need to Make It Taller: Engineering to Solve Wind Challenges in Preschool

Here we describe how a set of engineering-focused learning activities in a preschool classroom promoted STEM thinking, talking, and doing.

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Authored by: Alissa A. Lange Emma Atkins Qiuju “Daisy” Tian Kathy Bullen Lynn Lodien
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Teaching Young Children
Vol. 16, No. 2
January 3, 2023

Winter 2023

Playful and Engaging Arts Integration
No matter your own skills in the arts, this issue of Teaching Young Children has ideas for you. You’ll learn about “process art”, ways to integrate art into other content areas, using music in your setting, and more!
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Teaching Young Children
January 3, 2023

Message from Michelle

Arts woven into early education provide additional avenues of learning and growing in homes, schools, and early learning programs throughout communities.

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Authored by: Michelle Kang
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a child painting
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Teaching Young Children
January 3, 2023

Message from the TYC Editorial Team

The arts have an essential place in preschool education. No matter your own skills in the arts, this issue of TYC has ideas for you!
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Teaching Young Children
January 3, 2023

Feature Teacher: Bonnie Sears

NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
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A child draws on a piece of paper.
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Teaching Young Children
January 3, 2023

A Scribble Is Never Just a Scribble: Art, Story, and Process

The following DAP snapshot and reflection touches on how one teacher responded to children’s marks on paper, encouraging creativity and integrated learning, particularly around drawing, writing, and storytelling.

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Authored by: Ron Grady
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Teaching Young Children
January 3, 2023

Beyond the Art Center: How Prop Making Merges Art and Make-Believe Play

In make-believe play, young children are actively engaged with peers and are in control: it is the children—not an adult—who make decisions during play.

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Authored by: Barbara Wilder-Smith  Deborah J. Leong Elena Bodrova
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Teaching Young Children
January 3, 2023

What Do You See? Including Art Appreciation in Early Childhood

Art is important to the development of young children’s physical and cognitive skills and their aesthetic awareness. Examples of children’s creative expressions often fill early childhood settings. But what about appreciating visual art?

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Authored by: Mary Ellen Bardsley Tracy Galuski
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A group of children dancing.
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Teaching Young Children
January 3, 2023

Penguins, Chicks, and Caves: Journal Notes on Moving from STEM to STEAM

In this article, Mimi Brodsky Chenfield shares reflections from her experiences and conversations with children across the early childhood years—each of which builds to a major shift, moving from STEM to STEAM.

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Authored by: Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld
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Teaching Young Children
October 1, 2022

Formative Assessment: Doing It with a Purpose

Learn how to plan for formative assessment and incorporate it into your practice.

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Authored by: Starr Batts
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a child looking through a stack of large drawings
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Teaching Young Children
October 1, 2022

A New Purpose in Calendar Time

Learn engaging, child-appropriate ways to conduct calendar time.

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Authored by: Susan Swiderek
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Teaching Young Children
Vol. 16, No. 1
October 1, 2022

Fall 2022

This issue of Teaching Young Children provides information about what is developmentally appropriate assessment, and it offers recommendations for how to assess in practical ways.
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This month's feature teacher, Janice Garcia, with her students.
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Teaching Young Children
October 1, 2022

Feature Teacher: Janice Garcia

San Francisco-based teacher Janice Garcia shares insights about her work.
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