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Recognizing And Sustaining #Blackgirlmagic: Reimagining Justice-Oriented Approaches In Teacher Education, Tia C. Madkins
Recognizing And Sustaining #Blackgirlmagic: Reimagining Justice-Oriented Approaches In Teacher Education, Tia C. Madkins
Occasional Paper Series
As our global public health, race, and education crises continue to converge, PK-12 teachers must engage justice-oriented pedagogies. This historical moment highlights BIPOC children’s dehumanizing experiences, yet Black girls’ educational lives remain invisible. To address these issues within teacher education, scholars suggest teachers need to develop critical consciousness and reject deficit views of students, especially Black girls. Therefore, I discuss how we can support educators and teacher educators in recognizing and sustaining #BlackGirlMagic (i.e., Black girls’ and women’s universal awesomeness and brilliance). We can prepare educators to celebrate the diversity of Black girlhoods and disrupt monolithic views of who Black …
If I Knew Then What I Do Now: Fostering Pre-Service Teachers’ Capacity To Promote Expansive And Critical Conversations With Children’S Literature, Stephen Adam Crawley
If I Knew Then What I Do Now: Fostering Pre-Service Teachers’ Capacity To Promote Expansive And Critical Conversations With Children’S Literature, Stephen Adam Crawley
Occasional Paper Series
In this article, I reflect on my practices as a teacher educator and respond to the following questions: How do I foster the capacity of pre-service teachers to use children’s literature to promote expansive and critical conversations in the classroom? How do pre-service teachers report their stances and sense of preparedness when reflecting on the course? To address these questions, I share two strategies I employed in my undergraduate course for elementary education majors: 1) emphasizing children's literature as windows and mirrors and 2) considering stakeholder responses. For each strategy, I include preservice teachers’ (PTs’) statements that reflect how the …
High-Needs Schools: Preparing Teachers For Today's World
High-Needs Schools: Preparing Teachers For Today's World
Occasional Paper Series
In the second decade of the 21st century, some schools are in trouble and some schools are not. The subject of this Occasional Paper is the preparation of teachers for schools that--lacking sufficient resources, effective leadership, or vocal advocates--are failing to educate their students by any reasonable measures. The teachers and teacher educator contributors to this volume offer a more variegated set of responses grounded in a diversity of local experiences. Their approaches to researching and understanding the immediacy of becoming a teacher are based on decades of working in hard-pressed urban schools and the institutions that supply them with …
Constructivists Online: Reimagining Progressive Practice
Constructivists Online: Reimagining Progressive Practice
Occasional Paper Series
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Normalizing The Need For Help: What All Teachers Need, Nancy Gropper
Normalizing The Need For Help: What All Teachers Need, Nancy Gropper
Occasional Paper Series
Gropper recalls her need for support when she first joined the graduate faculty at Bank Street College as a Supervised Fieldwork advisor. She explores the connections between her own most recent experiences as a newcomer and what all new teachers need in order to succeed - teacher support. This article describes critical components of a teacher support program, referencing the methods of the New Educators Support Team (NEST).
A Progressive Approach To The Education Of Teachers: Some Principles From Bank Street College Of Education, Nancy Nager, Edna Shapiro
A Progressive Approach To The Education Of Teachers: Some Principles From Bank Street College Of Education, Nancy Nager, Edna Shapiro
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In this paper we present Bank Street’s approach as represented in a set of five inter-related principles. We begin by briefly describing the origins and rationale of teacher education at Bank Street. From this description we generate principles that emerge from Bank Street’s history and practice, linking each principle to classroom images of teaching and learning. Enactment of these principles can and must vary in response to changing circumstances, needs, and mandates. In our view, this necessary variation highlights the guiding function of an explicit set of principles to govern and ensure the consonance, validity, and legitimacy of new practices.
No Shortcuts On The Journey To Learning For Students Or Teachers, Alison Coviello, Susan Stires
No Shortcuts On The Journey To Learning For Students Or Teachers, Alison Coviello, Susan Stires
Occasional Paper Series
Despite the generally held view that children in low-performing, under-served schools have "deficits" teachers in such schools often have very different experiences. Students can succeed in all areas of schooling and beyond. But for this to happen, teacher education institutions need to provide teacher candidates with background information and knowledge about instruction, so they can see and support the strengths of students in high-needs schools.
Preparing Teachers For High-Need Schools: A Focus On Thoughtfully Adaptive Teaching, Arlene Mascarenhas, Seth Parsons, Sarah Cohen Burrowbridge
Preparing Teachers For High-Need Schools: A Focus On Thoughtfully Adaptive Teaching, Arlene Mascarenhas, Seth Parsons, Sarah Cohen Burrowbridge
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Differentiated instruction, or thoughtfully adaptive teaching, helps teachers successfully meet the needs of students in under-served schools. Teacher education institutions can do their part by forming partnerships with high-needs schools so teacher candidates can gain experience in a supportive environment. Along with providing a solid grounding in pedagogy, teacher education programs need to help candidates develop their own vision of teaching. Vision is seen as a way for teachers to remain true to their core values, and as a way to stay focused on how to do the best for all of their students.
Preparing Teachers For Place-Based Teaching, Amy Vinlove
Preparing Teachers For Place-Based Teaching, Amy Vinlove
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This paper begins by offering two portraits of recent teacher education graduates providing place-based teaching in their classrooms, followed by a description of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions teachers (new or seasoned) must possess to effectively teach in a place-based manner. Next is a short discussion of the importance of experience and application of these tenets. Finally, there are three examples of activities and assignments my colleagues and I have developed for our teacher preparation program. We aim for these experiences to help inspire and prepare our graduates to integrate their local communities and places into their own classrooms, whether …
The Social Construction Of Teachers' Practical Knowledge In The Advisement Conference Group: Report Of A Case Study, Gail Hirsch
The Social Construction Of Teachers' Practical Knowledge In The Advisement Conference Group: Report Of A Case Study, Gail Hirsch
Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education
The work described here concerns the phenomenon of teachers' practical knowledge and the dynamic processes involved in its articulation and development within the local context of the teacher education experience as these were examined in a longitudinal case study, Telling Tales Out of School (Hirsch, 1987).
A Theoretical Framework For Advisement, Dorothy Bloomfield
A Theoretical Framework For Advisement, Dorothy Bloomfield
Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education
Describes the theory and practice of advisement, offering a glimpse of the developmental facet of advisement and the relationship involved between advisor and advisee.
Advisement: From Bank Street To Binghamton, Margaret Yonemura
Advisement: From Bank Street To Binghamton, Margaret Yonemura
Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education
The author describes her experience of adapting the Bank Street advisement model to a new master's program in early childhood/elementary education at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
The Advisement Process In School Reform, Esther Rosenfeld
The Advisement Process In School Reform, Esther Rosenfeld
Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education
As the new Teacher Director at Central Park East II elementary school, the author chose to adapt Bank Street's advisement model to the staff development work at her school. She suggests that the process may be appropriately applied more broadly in efforts at school reform.
Developing Collaborative Leaders: Reflections On Leadership Advisement At Bank Street College, Lonnetta Gaines
Developing Collaborative Leaders: Reflections On Leadership Advisement At Bank Street College, Lonnetta Gaines
Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education
Describes the educational leadership advisement process in its role in preparing collaborative leaders.
Storytelling In Advisement, Nina Jaffe
Storytelling In Advisement, Nina Jaffe
Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education
As a folklore educator and storyteller, the author considers the role of storytelling as it occurs in advisement, not as performance art but as the primary role of communication in group meetings and individual conferences.
Advisement And Collaboration, Maureen A. Hornung, Ariel Katz, Claire Wurtzel
Advisement And Collaboration, Maureen A. Hornung, Ariel Katz, Claire Wurtzel
Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education
Describes a collaboration between two Bank Street College advisees who had different strengths and levels of experience within the classroom.
Advisement: The Journey For Preservice Students, Maritza B. Macdonald
Advisement: The Journey For Preservice Students, Maritza B. Macdonald
Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education
Describes the characteristics of advisement in the Preservice Program at Bank Street College of Education within the context of nine field-related issues, which seem to be predominant in the professional development of preservice students.