Head Start preschool educator Amanda Messer offers insight into how young children can demonstrate early learning goals through engagement in process art.
In this article, we describe how early childhood educators can purposefully plan for and scaffold vocabulary learning during open-ended art activities.
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.
You don’t need to be a musician to use music comfortably, confidently, and creatively with children. Here are eight ways to make it an integral part of your classroom.
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!
This article shares ways in which process art can help children grow in their expressive language, nurture social and emotional development, and encourage thinking skills.
People often think about art as creating something beautiful—a replica Starry Night collage or a seasonal craft to serve as a gift. But when children engage in process art, they explore and experience materials without working toward a particular goal.
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.
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.
Authored by
Authored by:
Barbara Wilder-Smith Deborah J. Leong Elena Bodrova
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?
To create a community building event with family involvement, we decided to engage in a Cardboard Challenge focused on trees: How could children build a tree with cardboard-like materials and make it interactive?
Understanding why and how to implement a continuity of care approach can inspire positive and responsive changes for all—early childhood educators, families, and children.
Family engagement in early childhood education is essential, as are strong, reciprocal relationships and collaboration among early childhood educators and families.
In this article, we share our experiences developing and implementing a virtual program during the pandemic that may serve as a guide for others looking to develop teaching plans that involve online learning when crises arise.
This case study challenges us and our insights into how prior experiences and cultural knowledge shape our definitions of teacher research and of “best” practices.
In this article, we present six research-informed resources for making the most of these conferences, with examples of how pre-K teachers received and made use of them.
Authored by
Authored by:
Tricia Zucker Michael Mesa April Crawford Shauna Spear Sonia Cabell
