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 teacher in a UPK/4s classroom.
• You must have a minimum of five years teaching experience, preferably some lead teaching experience.
• You will need to have breadth and depth in the liberal arts and sciences.
• You will need to submit scores from the GRE (institution code 2035) or MAT (institution code 3197) before new student registration.

This is a cohort program beginning each July. Applications open in the winter.

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.
• You’ll complete one academic year of supervised fieldwork experiences, always starting fall.
• You’ll be supervised at the school where you will be or already are a full time teacher.
• You’ll keep the same job at your school for the entire fieldwork year.
• You’ll participate in a 5-7 member conference group, be observed working with children twice each semester (fall and spring), and have monthly individual meetings with your advisor.
• Your advisor will guide you through course work.

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.