In this article, Mimi Brodsky Chenfield shares reflections from her experiences and conversations with children across the early childhood years鈥攅ach of which builds to a major shift, moving from STEM to STEAM.
You don鈥檛 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听your classroom.
No matter your own skills in the arts, this issue of Teaching Young Children has ideas for you. You鈥檒l learn about 鈥減rocess art鈥�, 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听thinking skills.
People often think about art as creating something beautiful鈥攁 replica听Starry Night听collage or a seasonal craft to serve as a gift. But when children engage in听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鈥檚 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鈥攏ot an adult鈥攚ho make decisions during play.
Authored by
Authored by:
Barbara Wilder-Smith, 听Deborah J. Leong, Elena Bodrova
Art is important to the development of young children鈥檚 physical and cognitive skills and their aesthetic awareness. Examples of children鈥檚 creative expressions often fill early childhood settings. But what about听appreciating听visual art?
In this article, we describe how early childhood educators can purposefully plan for and scaffold vocabulary learning during open-ended听art activities.
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?
In this article, we focus on communication and collaboration鈥攓ualities that are important in achieving the critical thinking, creativity, and content knowledge involved across STEAM areas.
In this article, we look at how a service-learning project helped foster receptive language competencies for infants through art experiences and encouraged socially and culturally responsive practices by students.
