Dr. Ting Yuan is an assistant professor teaching in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at CUNY College of Staten Island. She teaches teacher education courses on early childhood and elementary literacy methods. Dr. Yuan’s research critically examines the intersections of literacy, race, culture, and technology, including digital literacies in early literacy curricula, embodied multimodality in children's language and literacy practices, as well as how children and pre-service/in-service teachers from diverse backgrounds (re)shape curricular practices in multilingual and multicultural settings. Her scholarly work has appeared in journals, including Young Exceptional Children, Childhood Education, Journal of Research in Childhood Education, Journal of Language and Literacy Education, English Journal, English Leadership Quarterly, and others. Dr. Yuan is the awardee of NCTE Geneva Smitherman Cultural Diversity Grant and NCTE Research Foundation Grant. She is currently a CSI campus lead on CUNY's Computing Integrated Teacher Education.
She is a former TESOL teacher (K-8) in China and a current teacher educator working with New York City public schools. Dr. Yuan received her B.A. from East China University of Political Science & Law; an M.A. in Curriculum and Teaching (Elementary Education) from Teachers College, Columbia University; and an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Degrees
Ed.D. in Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University
M.A. in Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University
Selected Publications:
Yuan, T. (2024). Poem: Confession of a MotherScholar of a "Satellite Baby." English Journal, 113(4), 20. Link
Yuan, T. (2023). Poem of Motherscholar Work on #StopAsianHate during COVID-19. English Journal, 112(4), 106. Link
Yuan, T., & Grant, R. (2023). Digital storytelling of two “underperforming” and “misbehaving” boys of color in a second grade classroom. Journal of Research in Childhood Education. Online First. DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2023.2212289
Yuan, T., Waite, S., Bristol. T., & Mentor, M. (2023). NYC Men Teach: Listening to and supporting early-career Asian American male teachers in English teaching. English Leadership Quarterly, 45(3), 5-12. Link
Yuan, T. (2022). A critical pedagogy for love and healing toward anti-Asian racism and Xenophobia. Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 18(2), 1-5. Link
Yuan, T. & Patel, A. (2022). “If young children can code, why can’t we try?”: Computational storytelling in early childhood teacher education. Childhood Education: Innovations, 98(6), 56-61. Link
Yuan, T. (2022). Enacting culturally sustaining teaching: Book co-authoring and co-making by preservice teachers and their child partners. In C. Lin, N. Bell, & J. Cowin (Eds.), Supporting student success through community assets mapping: A NYS TESOL E-Book (pp. 72-79). New York, NY: NYS TESOL. Link
Yuan, T., Grant, R., & Jiang, H. (2022). Translanguaging as an enactment of “Changjinglu” with a Chinese Satellite Baby in a Head Start classroom. In S. DeCapua & E. Hancı-Azizoglu (Eds.), Global and transformative approaches toward linguistic diversity (pp. 49-65). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. Link
Morphis, E., & Yuan, T. (2020). Making literacy culturally relevant: An imperative for early childhood teacher education. In K. Sprott, J. O’ Connor Jr., & C. M. Msengi (Eds.), Designing culturally competent programming for PK-20 classrooms (pp. 21-34). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. Link
Yuan, T., & Jiang, H. (2019). Culturally responsive teaching for children from low-income, immigrant families. Young Exceptional Children, 22(3), 150-161. Link
Yuan, T. (2017). The teaching of “dangerous” school bodies: Toward critical embodied pedagogies in English education. English Journal, 106(4), 67-72. Link
Yuan, T. (Ed.). (2016). A guide for parents by the China National Children’s Center Lao Niu Children’s Discovery Museum (《中國兒童中心老牛兒童探索館家長指南》). Children’s Museum Research Center of Beijing Normal University and China National Children’s Center, Beijing, China.
Yuan, T., & Bakian-Aaker, L. (2015). Classroom digital storytelling in grades K-2: Writers make a movie for the reader. Childhood Education, 91(5), 402-406. Link
Yuan, T. (2011). From Ponyo to “my Garfield story”: Using digital comics as an alternative pathway to literary compositions. Childhood Education, 87(4), 297-301. Link
Course Teaching
EDC 218 Language and Literacy in the Early Childhood Curriculum
EDE 305 Social Studies, Art, and Reading and Language Arts in Elementary Education
EDC 310 The Teaching of Reading and Writing in the Primary Grades
EDC 440/441 Student Teaching and Seminar in Early Childhood Education
EDC 600 Contemporary Curriculum in Early Childhood Education
EDD 691 Perspectives on Managing Diverse Learning Settings
