Students should register only at the beginning of their Independent Study. Students continuing an Independent Study from a previous semester should contact your Student Services Advisor before registering.

Registration is not allowed after January 25, 2023.

IMPORTANT NOTE TO STUDENTS REGISTERING FOR INDEPENDENT STUDIES In order to register for Independent Studies (IS500) you must have already secured a faculty mentor who has reviewed your IS proposal and has committed to serve as your IS mentor. By registering for the IS500, you are attesting to having secured a mentor, and you are agreeing to follow all applicable IS directives and guidelines as stated in A Guide to the Integrative Master’s Project.

In addition to registering through my.BSC for IS500, please fill out the Independent Study Mentor Form, indicating which faculty member has consented to mentor you.

Please note: Students who register without completing the above form will be dropped from their Independent Study. You must identify your mentor in order to be enrolled in an Independent Study for the term.

Title: Collaborative Student-Faculty Inquiry: Picture Books for The Ages

This IMP option invites writers to create a picture book for children of a specific age group of the writer's choice. In addition to the picture book, participants will write a rationale and a child development section, review other children's literature for the same age-level, share their picture book with a group of children, and write a reflective conclusion. The final picture book must include some form of visual illustration.

Contact the facilitator/instructor if there are questions about a specific inquiry. Registration is not allowed after the class has met.

Students may attend in-person or remotely.

Title: Three Chords & Shekeres for Your Classroom

Music enhances math minds and builds language skills for reading too. Come learn some basic instrument skills on guitar, ukulele, or shekere that could invite your students more deeply into learning. This IMP option has choices of instrument as well individual direction for the academic exploration of music for the age of your students. You can create your own project focused on music in the classroom. The final project is an academic paper with curricular intentions embedded- plus you will be ready to play for your students.

Students must either own, borrow, or buy a guitar, ukulele, or shekere to participate in this IMP.

Contact the facilitator/instructor if there are questions about a specific inquiry. Registration is not allowed after the class has met..

Title: Teacher Leadership

Bank Street-educated teachers are invariably called on for leadership in their schools, yet their preparation programs do not often have room for learning to promote collaboration, peer coaching, and advocacy. This collaborative inquiry provides the opportunity for students to investigate and practice the skills to become teacher leaders and, in general, to inspire, support, and coach their colleagues in improving instructional practice and creating stronger cultures in their workplaces. Participants typically create case studies and/or descriptive analyses of teacher leadership in their own school sites (or, alternatively, a school to which they have ready access).

Contact the facilitator/instructor if there are questions about a specific inquiry. Registration is not allowed after the class has met..

This section will run fully online.

Title: TESOL Integrative Masters Inquiry

This collaborative inquiry will give graduate students the opportunity to examine a topic of interest within the TESOL field. Participants will follow outlines of several independent study options to help them facilitate research around a problem of practice that affects emergent bilingual students.

This inquiry is for students enrolled in the TESOL program only..

Title: Loose Parts in Child Life: To Infinity and Beyond

Child Life students are invited to continue their exploration and refinement of their medical preparation and teaching skills through the use of loose parts and a child-centered approach. In partnership with one another and their faculty mentor, students will choose a body part or system, a disease/disorder that might affect it, and how medical treatment will occur and affect the body. The inquiry will culminate in a 3-D loose parts representation of all three of these aspects, a written rationale and reflection, and a live presentation of the project to the inquiry group and larger Bank Street audience.

Contact the facilitator/instructor if there are questions about a specific inquiry. Registration is not allowed after the class has met..

This section will run fully online.

Title: Collaborative Student-Faculty Inquiry: Picture Books for The Ages

This IMP option invites writers to create a picture book for children of a specific age group of the writer's choice. In addition to the picture book, participants will write a rationale and a child development section, review other children's literature for the same age-level, share their picture book with a group of children, and write a reflective conclusion. The final picture book must include some form of visual illustration.

Contact the facilitator/instructor if there are questions about a specific inquiry. Registration is not allowed after the class has met.

Students may attend in-person or remotely.

Title: Using Emotionally Responsive Practice Techniques in the Classroom

This faculty-led Group Inquiry IMP introduces the core concepts and techniques of Emotionally Responsive Practice. The group meetings will familiarize students to practice identifying unresolved developmental issues, use of Story Gathering process, use of transitional objects in classrooms, and emotionally responsive literacy process in preschool and elementary school classrooms. Students will design ways to apply these concepts in their own settings, and receive guidance and feedback from the instructor(s). Final project will include creating a resource binder of readings, techniques and lesson plans, as well as detailed documentation of the ERP technique(s) applied in the setting, and a reflection on the children's response to the technique(s).

Contact the facilitator/instructor if there are questions about a specific inquiry. Registration is not allowed after the class has met..

This section will run fully online.

Students should register only at the beginning of their Independent Study. Students continuing an Independent Study from a previous semester should contact your Student Services Advisor before registering.

Registration is not allowed after January 25, 2023.

IMPORTANT NOTE TO STUDENTS REGISTERING FOR INDEPENDENT STUDIES In order to register for Independent Studies (IS500) you must have already secured a faculty mentor who has reviewed your IS proposal and has committed to serve as your IS mentor. By registering for the IS500, you are attesting to having secured a mentor, and you are agreeing to follow all applicable IS directives and guidelines as stated in A Guide to the Integrative Master’s Project.

In addition to registering through my.BSC for IS500, please fill out the Independent Study Mentor Form, indicating which faculty member has consented to mentor you.

Please note: Students who register without completing the above form will be dropped from their Independent Study. You must identify your mentor in order to be enrolled in an Independent Study for the term.

Title: Collaborative Student-Faculty Inquiry: Picture Books for The Ages

This IMP option invites writers to create a picture book for children of a specific age group of the writer's choice. In addition to the picture book, participants will write a rationale and a child development section, review other children's literature for the same age-level, share their picture book with a group of children, and write a reflective conclusion. The final picture book must include some form of visual illustration.

Contact the facilitator/instructor if there are questions about a specific inquiry. Registration is not allowed after the class has met.

Students may attend in-person or remotely.

Title: Using Emotionally Responsive Practice Techniques in the Classroom

This faculty-led Group Inquiry IMP introduces the core concepts and techniques of Emotionally Responsive Practice. The group meetings will familiarize students to practice identifying unresolved developmental issues, use of Story Gathering process, use of transitional objects in classrooms, and emotionally responsive literacy process in preschool and elementary school classrooms. Students will design ways to apply these concepts in their own settings, and receive guidance and feedback from the instructor(s). Final project will include creating a resource binder of readings, techniques and lesson plans, as well as detailed documentation of the ERP technique(s) applied in the setting, and a reflection on the children's response to the technique(s).

Contact the facilitator/instructor if there are questions about a specific inquiry. Registration is not allowed after the class has met..

This section will run fully online.

Students should register only at the beginning of their Independent Study. Students continuing an Independent Study from a previous semester should contact your Student Services Advisor before registering.

Registration is not allowed after January 25, 2023.

IMPORTANT NOTE TO STUDENTS REGISTERING FOR INDEPENDENT STUDIES In order to register for Independent Studies (IS500) you must have already secured a faculty mentor who has reviewed your IS proposal and has committed to serve as your IS mentor. By registering for the IS500, you are attesting to having secured a mentor, and you are agreeing to follow all applicable IS directives and guidelines as stated in A Guide to the Integrative Master’s Project.

In addition to registering through my.BSC for IS500, please fill out the Independent Study Mentor Form, indicating which faculty member has consented to mentor you.

Please note: Students who register without completing the above form will be dropped from their Independent Study. You must identify your mentor in order to be enrolled in an Independent Study for the term.