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New York City Pre-K Leadership Study
Get PDFPresents key findings from a study of New York City pre-K leaders that evaluated how leaders support teachers and what factors help or hinder leaders’ efforts to positively impact learning for all children.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/faculty-staff/1042/thumbnail.jp
Overlooked Too Long: Focusing on the Potential of Infant-Toddler Child Care
Get PDFChild care appears to be emerging as a national issue. After decades of being relegated to the minor leagues of American policy, child care for working families has become front-page news. It has been almost 50 years since the passage of comprehensive child care reform. The Comprehensive Child Development Act of l971 would have provided for a network of child care programs, ensured federal standards, and provided funds to train caregivers, among other provisions. Unfortunately it was vetoed, setting back child care for decades
Retention Study and Fourth Grade Queer Book Study Curriculum
Get PDFThis paper presents a queer literature unit for a fourth grade class within the context of a larger literature curriculum on identity
Childhood Disability: Challenges and Theory-Informed Child Life Interventions in the Healthcare Setting
Get PDFChildren with intellectual, sensory, physical, and/or speech disabilities encounter a proliferation of challenges in the healthcare environment. Such challenges are exacerbated by insufficient knowledge in doctors, nurses, child life specialists, and other healthcare providers in bias-free and specialized healthcare delivery. To remedy this, pertinent methods informed by theoretical perspectives of atypical development that ameliorate stress and augment coping in children with disabilities are warranted. Therefore, the purpose of this independent study is to provide a synthesis of the literature that chronicles this topic. Multifarious child life interventions that are premised on contemporary developmental frameworks of childhood disability will be presented. The overall objective is to enlighten healthcare personnel of the valuable and critical approaches to implement and utilize with children with disabilities in clinical practice
Classroom Life in the Age of Accountability
Get PDFConcerned that various reforms promising greater professional autonomy and status as well as student success are actually disempowering teachers, impoverishing intellectual life in schools, and serving as a portal for the marketization of teaching and education, editors invited teachers to respond to the ways in which the proliferation of standards and testing combined with their own loss of professional control is altering the landscape of American education. The editors\u27 goal was to raise questions about whether and how educators are balancing the demands of high stakes testing, scripted curricula, and a focus on performance outcomes with the emotional complexity of classroom life
Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification
Get PDFAlternative routes to teacher preparation are clearly here to stay. A growing research literature on non-traditional pathways suggests the complexity of the task ahead. This report offers new teachers the opportunity to tell their own stories in their own words
The Best of Both Worlds: Partnering with the Community to Create the Guttman Center for Early Care and Education
Get PDFThe Guttman Center for Early Care and Education was established in the fall of 2016 at Bank Street College with the intention of providing quality professional development and support to Family Child Care Providers (early childhood educators running small private daycares out of their homes) in Brooklyn, New York. Completely free to all participants, the Center seeks to attract providers, regardless of age, education level or years of experience, who were interested in deepening their understanding of early childhood development. Through a deep touch community engagement strategy and utilization of Bank Street\u27s renowned Infancy Masters Program, early educators are encouraged to build relationships with and educate young children in their most crucial first three years of life
Preparing Infant-Toddler Professionals: A Community College’s Perspective
Get PDFPreparing professionals to work with infants/ toddlers is complex and unique because of the age group. Community colleges have an integral role in the preparation of infant/ toddler professionals, The Borough of Manhattan Community College infant/ toddler preservice program identified the following four elements to prepare professionals to deliver high-quality, relationship-based practices: (1) relationship-based program, (2) fieldwork opportunities, (3) curriculum, and (4) faculty
Eight Weeks and a Poetry Slam: A Poetry Curriculum for Second-Graders
Get PDFThis paper presents a rationale and an eight-week poetry reading and writing curriculum designed for second-grade students. At the heart of the curriculum is Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, used as a mentor text to guide students’ exploration of poetry. This central text is complemented by a diverse selection of poems and picture books