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Teaching Young Children
January 4, 2021

Engineering in Preschool: Building the Basis for Lifelong Problem Solving

This article discusses why engineering is important in the early years, what are core elements of engineering, and how you can foster engineering in your setting.

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Katherine Laguzza, Katherine Katzer, Mary Eileen McDonnell, Christine Cunningham
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Teaching Young Children
January 4, 2021

Message in a Backpack Choosing the Best STEM Activities for Your Child

Young children love to explore the world around themand STEM activities are a great way to help them do it. With so many STEM ideas to choose from, how do you find what is best for your child?

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Rosemary Geiken, Sandy Chilton
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Teaching Young Children
January 4, 2021

Beyond Pinning: Choosing Developmentally Appropriate STEM Activities for Preschoolers

When you go online to search for a science activity, how can you know which activities will really help children build knowledge about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and support their scientific thinking?

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Anne Lowry, Anna Pidlypchak
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Teaching Young Children
January 4, 2021

Feature Teacher: Hope Cain

Hope Cain泭has been an associate teacher at the NASA Goddard Child Development Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for 8 years.
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Article
Teaching Young Children
January 4, 2021

Message From Rhian

This issue of泭Teaching Young Children泭offers content that is both relevant to the times were living in and looks forward to the day when we can be back in the classroom on a regular basis.

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Rhian Evans Allvin
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The cover of the publication Teaching Young Children, Volume 14, Number 2
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Teaching Young Children
Vol. 14, No. 2
January 4, 2021

Winter 2021

Engineering in Preschool and A More Equitable Classroom
TYC Winter 2021 Issue
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Blog
September 29, 2020

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This blog post features four educators (pre-K, kindergarten, ESL, migrant education) in culturally diverse programs who focused their intentional teaching with guidance from the 51勛圖厙 & Fred Rogers Center Position Statement on Technology and Interactive M

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Diane Bales, Kelly Dalsemer, Bonnie Blagojevic, Lynn Hartle, Noelle Chung, Katie Gardner, Kelsey MacLeod, Juana Rodriguez-Vazquez
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Article
Young Children
November 18, 2020

The Reading Chair: December 2020

New childrens books too good to miss!

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Isabel Baker, Miriam Baker Schiffer
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Article
Young Children
November 18, 2020

Our Proud Heritage. Can We Change Early Care and Education?

Early care and education professionals, advocates, and supporters have worked to solve real and perceived problems within the early childhood education workforce, but without complete success. One ongoing issue is how weand othersdefine who we are.

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Edna Runnels Ranck
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Article
Young Children
November 18, 2020

Scaffolding Background Knowledge and Emergent Writing Through Conversations

Through the following examples, we aim to show how teachers can support young childrens growth in ways that are important to emergent writing development, with a focus on content knowledge, genre knowledge, and visual literacy.

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Carol A. Donovan, Diane C. Sekeres, Cailin Jane Kerch
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Young Children
November 18, 2020

The Toads: Refocusing the Lens (Voices)

In this article, I describe the moment where I learned to hear and respect the voices of children and to hear and respect my own voice as well.

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Amanda Jo Messer
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Article
Young Children
November 18, 2020

51勛圖厙 Member Spotlight: Ron Grady

This month's 51勛圖厙 Member Spotlight focuses on Ron Grady, an educator and the founder of Childology, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Article
Young Children
November 18, 2020

Making Connections: You Are Courageous and Essential

Many are feeling like they are not giving their full attention to any of their many priorities, and they are carrying the weight of this entire burden on their shoulders. To all of you. You are brave. You are essential. And you are not alone.

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Rhian Evans Allvin
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