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Early Childhood Education, ET-ECE-5

Current Learning and Child Development Theory

Instructions:

1. Choose an article from a professional journal written for early childhood professionals. Some good journals to choose from: Early Childhood News, Childhood Education, Dimensions from Southern Early Childhood Association, TYC (Teaching Young Children), and YC (Young Children) from NAEYC.

2. The article must be a minimum of two (2) pages long.

3. Read the article fully.

4. Summarize the article in your own words into an abstract. Use your own paper. The abstract must be one (1) full page.

5. Complete the bibliographic information below.

• Author’s full name: _____________________________________________________

• Full title of the publication: ______________________________________________

• Full title of the article (if applicable): _______________________________________

• Edition (if listed): _________

• Number or volume (if a multi-volume work): ______________

• City of Publication: __________________

• Publisher’s name: ________________________________

• Date of publication: ______________________________

• Which theorist would support this research? ________________________________

6. Staple this page on the top of the abstract.

7. You will be grouped with other class members.

8. Individually share what you learned from the article pertaining to young children: the current research in child development, the theorist this research would support, anything new you learned about children or teaching, at least two interesting facts, etc…

9. List the titles and publications of the articles shared by your group below. Take notes about important key elements each group member shares on your own paper.

• _______________________________________________________ (title)

____________________________________________________(publication)

• _______________________________________________________ (title)

____________________________________________________(publication)

• _______________________________________________________ (title)

____________________________________________________(publication)

10. The whole class will come back together. When I call your name, you will tell us the name of one of your group members, the title of his/her article, the name of the publication, and one (1) key point about the article.

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