Early Childhood General Education Advanced Standing

In addition to the main admissions criteria, there are additional requirements needed to apply for this program:

• You must be a lead teacher in a 3-year-old or 4-year-old classroom that is contracted with the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE). This is inclusive of Head Start, Extended Day, and School Day and Year programs.
• You must have a minimum of three years of teaching experience.
• You will need to have breadth and depth in the liberal arts and sciences.

The spring 2022 cohort is offered as a special partnership between Bank Street College of Education and NYC DOE’s Division of Early Childhood to enable experienced teachers to gain certification through a program that acknowledges their prior experience.

For more information, please contact gradadmissions@bankstreet.edu.

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Through coursework, students will work to develop and show mastery in the following competencies:

• Planning and Instruction
• Learning Environments
• Subject Preparation
• Assessment
• Professional Learning -and Ethics
• Leadership and Collaboration

These competencies are woven throughout the below modules.

Sample Credit Sequence

Start of program – 6 credits awarded for teaching experience

Module 1 | 6 credits:

• Child Development and Cultural Identity
• Integrating and Implementing Theory into Practice

Module 2 | 5 credits:

• Informal Assessment in a
  Social-Cultural Context
• Supervised Fieldwork

Module 3 | 4 credits:

• Formal Assessment
• Supervised Fieldwork

Module 4 | 9 credits:

• Curriculum Development and
  Child & Family Advocacy
• Supervised Fieldwork

Total Credits: 30

View coursework for this program.

Supervised fieldwork/advisement lies at the heart of a Bank Street education. Through sustained experiences in the field, supervision from core faculty, and close collaboration with peers, our graduate students develop the ability to connect theory to practice and to reflect deeply on their own growth as educators.

You will:

• be supervised by a Bank Street faculty member who is an experienced teacher and advisor.
• be supervised at the school where you will be or already are a full time teacher.
• keep the same job at your school for the entire fieldwork year.
• participate in a 5-7 member conference group, be observed working with children, and have monthly individual meetings with your advisor.
• be guided through your coursework by your advisor.

New York State requires all graduate students in this program to have field experiences in a birth-PreK and kindergarten setting, and in grades 1-2, as well as in an under-resourced public or charter school/program. Working teachers must enroll in an additional fieldwork placement, where they will be placed by Bank Street in the appropriate setting to fulfill their degree requirements.

Upon graduation, you will be eligible for New York State certification in Early Childhood General Education, birth through grade 2, provided you complete all other State certification requirements.

Click here for more information about certification.