Curriculum / Teaching

Young Children Journal - January 2012

vsheehan@naeyc.org — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:19:51 -0500

The content of January’s “Curriculum, Assessment, and Teaching: Putting It All Together” cluster was culled from presentations at NAEYC’s 20th National Institute for Early Childhood Professional Development. It includes a look at how creative and collaborative projects can address early learning standards, successful adult learning communities, and a report on how children’s fully developed play can enhance social development. Also included are ideas for incorporating arts into the STEM curriculum using Mr.

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Growing Minds: Building Strong Cognitive Foundations in Early Childhood

vsheehan@naeyc.org — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:52:19 -0500

From the beginning of life, young children’s learning and activities depend on their cognitive capabilities and development. To cope with the environment they live in, children need to learn about their physical and social worlds; acquire language; regulate their bodies, emotions, and thoughts; and gain competence in literacy, mathematics, science, and other knowledge domains.

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Teaching Young Children Vol. 5 #2 (Spanish version)

vsheehan@naeyc.org — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:16:00 -0500

Teaching Young Children is NAEYC's magazine for anyone who works with preschoolers. Colorful, informative, and easy-to-read, TYC is packed full of teaching ideas, strategies, and tips. The December 2011/January 2012 issue features articles on bringing nature into the classroom, starting an online blog, and shadow exploration with preschoolers.

To subscribe, please visit the TYC website or call 800-424-2460.

Young Children Journal - November 2011

vsheehan@naeyc.org — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:33:08 -0400

New research in the early childhood education field continually highlights practices that more effectively support children’s learning. In this “Early Childhood Trends and Initiatives,” cluster, articles focus on current research, policy, and practice, and the relationships and connections between these three segments of the profession.

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Projects to Go (DVD)

vsheehan@naeyc.org — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:47:39 -0400

From the editors of Early Childhood Research & Practice comes "Projects to Go,” a two-disc CD-ROM and DVD set. Disc 1 (CD-ROM) consists of a collection of articles about the Project Approach and 20 reports of projects conducted by teachers with preschool children. Disc 2 (DVD) shows the Project Approach in action with a video called Rearview Mirror: Reflections on a Preschool Car Project.

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Powerful Interactions: How to Connect with Children to Extend Their Learning

vsheehan@naeyc.org — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:38:54 -0400

A teacher interacts with the children all day long. It’s how the warm and responsive relationships in which young children learn best are built. But interactions in which teachers intentionally promote learning can be few and far between. A “Powerful Interaction” may last only a few minutes, but in that time the teacher tunes out any distractions, tunes into the child, and then presents a learning experience tailored to that child at that moment.

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Professionalism in Early Childhood Education: Doing Our Best for Young Children

vsheehan@naeyc.org — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:47:34 -0400

Written for those entering the field or striving to grow within the profession, Stephanie Feeney helps readers understand the nature of the profession, what it means to behave in a professional way, and where they stand in their own professional journey. She devotes chapters to moral and technical competence and explains what the terms profession and professional mean.

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Twelve Best Practices for Early Childhood Education: Integrating Reggio and Other Inspired Approaches

vsheehan@naeyc.org — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:37:22 -0400

In her new book, Ann Lewin-Benham presents 12 “best practices” inspired not only by Reggio, but also by play-based and Montessori approaches to early childhood education. Practices are demonstrated with classroom scenarios, dialogues of children and teachers, and work samples showing the outcome of using each practice. From Teachers College Press.

Young Children Journal - September 2011

vsheehan@naeyc.org — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:27:04 -0400

The September 2011 cluster of Young Children, “Fostering Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills in Young Children,” offers various approaches to build on children’s natural inquisitiveness. Articles cover implementing critical inquiry curricula, incorporating a metacognitive approach to reading comprehension in second grade, creating movement activities that enhance preschoolers’ working memory, using homemade toys to promote infant and toddler cognitive development, and more.

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Ethics and the Early Childhood Educator: Using the NAEYC Code (2005 Code ed., Reaffirmed and Updated 2011)

root — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:01:02 -0400

Bestseller! With updated language and references to the 2011 Code of Ethical Conduct, this book, like the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct, seeks to inform, not prescribe, answers to tough questions that teachers face as they work with children, families, and colleagues.

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