Infant and Family Development and Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special and General Education

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

• You will need to have breadth and depth in the liberal arts and sciences.

View the coursework for this program.

The heart of the program is a year-long supervised fieldwork experience.

• Your opportunity to connect theory and practice.
• You will have a reflective relationship with a mentor and a group of peers.
• Your experiences will include typically developing children, as well as with children with more specialized needs.
• You will have the flexibility to do your fieldwork in a paid position or as a student teacher.

To meet New York State requirements, all graduate students in this program have supervised fieldwork experiences in a birth-2’s setting. Students also must have experiences in kindergarten, and in grades 1-2, in an under-resourced program, as well as in a special education or inclusion setting. All graduate students in this program fulfill some of these placement requirements through course assignments. Student teachers fulfill remaining experiences through their placements in the fall and spring. Working teachers and assistants may need to fulfill an additional fieldwork experience where they will be placed by Bank Street in the appropriate setting to meet their degree requirements.

The early intervention field is creative, and flexible. Our graduates work as:

• Teachers in nursery schools, child care centers and Early Head Start Programs
• Early Interventionists in homes and group programs
• Directors and Educational Directors
• Developmental evaluators