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Curriculum, Assessment, and Teaching: Puting It All Together 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.Roger's Neighborhood as a template, and a comprehensive approach to connecting young children with nature. NAEYC members can read this entire issue of Young Children online in the Members Only area. |
Assessing and Scaffolding: Make-Believe Play/ Deborah J. Leong and Elena Bodrova
Patterns of Music: Young Children Learning Mathematics through Beat, Rhythm and Melody/ Kamile Geist, Eugene A. Geist, and Kathleen Kuznik
Additional Features
The Reading Chair/Isabel Baker and Miriam Baker Schiffer
Rocking and Rolling: What do We Mean by Reading Readiness/Nikki Darling-Kuria
Guidance Matters: From Rules to Guidelines: Moving to the Positive/Dan Gartrell
NAEYC Affiliate Successes: Team VAEYC Energizes and Strengthen Affiliate Volunteerism/Robin Ploof
New Books/Gail Perry
Table of Contents
| 10 | Introduction |
| 12 |
Visible Learning, Visible Learners: The Power of the Group in a Kindergarten Classroom / Ben Mardell, Melissa Rivard, and Mara Krechevsky |
| 20 | Learning Communities: An Emerging Phenomenon / Ellen Galinsky |
| 28 | Assessing and Scaffolding: Make-Believe Play / Deborah J. Leong and Elena Bodrova |
| 36 | From STEM to STEAM: How Early Childhood Educators Can Apply Fred Rogers' Approach / Hedda Sharapan |
| 42 | Supporting Whole-Child Learning in Nature-Filled Outdoor Classrooms / Susan Wirth and Nancy Rosenow |
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| 54 |
Rocking and Rolling. What Do We Mean by Reading Readiness?/ Nikki Darling-Kuria |
| 56 |
Guidance Matters. From Rules to Guidelines: Moving to the Positive / Dan Gartrell |
| 60 | NAEYC Affiliate Successes. Team VAEYC Energizes and Strengthens Affiliate Volunteerism / Robin Ploof |
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The Patterns of Music: Young Children Learning Mathematics through Beat, Rhythm, and Melody / Kamile Geist, Eugene A. Geist, and Kathleen Kuznik |
| 80 | Best Practices for Twin Placement in School / Jan Lacina |
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Viewpoint. Knowing is Not Understanding: Fallacies and Risks of Early Academic Instruction / David Elkind |
| 88 | Research in Review. Using Queer Theory to Rethink Gender Equity in Early Childhood Education / Mindy Blaise and Affrica Taylor |
| 100 | New Books / Gail Perry |
