One of the most challenging things about teaching in early childhood education surprisingly has nothing to do with children. Building an effective & secure bridge of trust, communication, and deep understanding […]
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Supervised Fieldwork & Advisement
Supervised Fieldwork: Conference Groups
It’d been whispered a time or two that educators often need therapy. Not the lay-on-a-chaise-and-spill-all-your-existential-crises-out-to-a-doctor kind of therapy (although there’s nothing wrong with that). No, more like the kind of […]
Supervised Fieldwork & Advisement
Supervised Fieldwork: Observation
Nothing terrifies a teacher more than mentioning a class observation. Teachers are observed a lot – a whole lot. Whether from the city, the state, independent organizations, or any part […]
Activities For The Classroom
Exploring Curriculum – Activities I Do With My Students And Why
If there’s one thing I’ve proven time and again in my journey as a teacher, it is that young children love to have fun. When we are immersed in a study characterized […]
Early Childhood Education
Developmentally Appropriate Practice – We’re Not Just Playing!
Children play for a reason. There are very specific, very real, biological, emotional, cognitive, and human reasons children are irrevocably compelled to and consumed with play. Play is an essential […]
Emotionally Responsive Practice
Emotionally Responsive Practice And Emotional Literacy – Invaluable Resources For Our Youngest Students
I’d heard that students at Bank Street like to eat. It came as no surprise when I heard one of Bank Street’s classic symposiums, the Weismann Dinner, always featured good […]
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Winter in NYC
Although winter seems like it’s left us early this year, there are some of us who actually long for the season. Despite the bitter cold some of us (me!) try […]
Let me allay your fears. Bank Street is that ideal college – It is unique, and it is wonderful. Through my studies here, I have found Bank Street to be cozy and intimate, […]
Graduate Student Life
How to Survive: Tips to Keep Your Sanity Through Grad School at Bank Street
Sometimes it all seems overwhelming. Life is a big ball of rubber bands -a messy looking sphere comprised of many strands of experiences. The rubber bands cross each other intertwining -they’re stretched […]
Culturally Responsive Practice
Culturally Responsive Practice – Shared Funds Of Knowledge With Our Community
This city is a melting pot. It is a classic phrase: true, utilized, and heard quite possibly too often, yet it remains an apt description of the absolute fusion of […]