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Supervising The Beginning Teacher (1959), Claudia Lewis, Charlotte B. Winsor Oct 2015

Supervising The Beginning Teacher (1959), Claudia Lewis, Charlotte B. Winsor

Bank Street Thinkers

Presents an experimental training program initiated at Bank Street in 1955. Although Bank Street had been preparing college graduates for teaching in an intensive one-year program, faculty questioned whether they could put more teachers into elementary classrooms sooner, for they felt the societal pressures of a growing teacher shortage and questioning of the need for teacher education at all. What follows is a description of the experimental training program in which novice students without teaching experience enter Bank Street in the fall semester, and emerge in the spring carrying full teaching responsibility. The key component? Advisement.


When Good Ideas Flow Two Ways, Mary Ellen Kenny Jan 2015

When Good Ideas Flow Two Ways, Mary Ellen Kenny

Progressive Education in Context

Describes the collaboration between Bank Street College Graduate School of Education and the Bank Street School for Children.


Progressive Education In Context, V & Vi, Bank Street College Of Education Jan 2015

Progressive Education In Context, V & Vi, Bank Street College Of Education

Progressive Education in Context

Contains current articles that highlight aspects of the educational vision, mission, and values of the Bank Street School for Children.


Searching For Meaning: A Personal And Historical Exploration Of Progressive Education, Molly M. Lippman Jan 2008

Searching For Meaning: A Personal And Historical Exploration Of Progressive Education, Molly M. Lippman

Graduate Student Independent Studies

In this study the author seeks to better understand the meaning of progressive education. This study does not attempt to answer the question What is progressive education?, but rather it seeks to bring the question to the forefront of the minds of fellow thoughtful, reflective, progressive educators who, like the author, struggle with the contradictions and discrepancies present among progressive educators, both historically and contemporarily. Utilizing Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot's style of portraiture (1997, with J. H. Davis), the author writes in the narrative style, sharing with the reader three conversations with progressive educators whose work has informed her own educational philosophy. …


Barbara Biber Bodansky 1903-1993: A Life Observed And Recorded, Bank Street College Of Education Jan 1995

Barbara Biber Bodansky 1903-1993: A Life Observed And Recorded, Bank Street College Of Education

Books

A book of anecdotes and remembrances from family, friends, and colleagues of Barbara Biber.


Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1878-1967: An Hour Of Remembrance, Bank Street College Of Education Jan 1967

Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1878-1967: An Hour Of Remembrance, Bank Street College Of Education

Books

The family, students, colleagues and friends of Lucy Sprague Mitchell met together to remember the life and work of this distinguished educator, author and founder of the Bank Street College of Education who on October 15, 1967, died at the age of 89 at her home in Palo Alto, California.


Children ...Here And Now [No. 5, 1957] : 40th Anniversary Issue, Bank Street College Of Education Jan 1957

Children ...Here And Now [No. 5, 1957] : 40th Anniversary Issue, Bank Street College Of Education

Children Here and Now ... Notes from 69 Bank Street

Everychild: a miracle of growth, by Lucy Sprague Mitchell; Bank Street: past and present; Toward the future, by John H. Niemeyer; An experiment in teacher education, by Claudia Lewis; You kicked me, by Marguerita Rudolph; Founders - Bank Street College of Education; The expanding world of the two-year-old, by Betty Miles; From the President of the Associates, by William F. Blitzer; By children; Testing assumptions, by Irma Simonton Black; What is magic?, by Ruth A. Sonneborn; Evening romp [poem], by Eve …


Children ...Here And Now [No. 4, 1956], Bank Street College Of Education Jan 1956

Children ...Here And Now [No. 4, 1956], Bank Street College Of Education

Children Here and Now ... Notes from 69 Bank Street

Believe and make believe, by Lucy Sprague Mitchell; Forces in education, by John H. Niemeyer; First day of nursery school [poem], by Eve Merriam; The teacher shortage and our experiment in teacher education, by Charlotte B. Winsor; What's special about Writers Lab? by Eve Merriam; Old words and young meanings; A dream of a children's museum, by Ruth Sonneborn; Stories and poems, by the children; Orchids for the teacher, by Sonya F. Kaufer; Duncan, by Claudia Lewis; Children at work - ideas at work! …


Children ...Here And Now [No. 3, 1955], Bank Street College Of Education Jan 1955

Children ...Here And Now [No. 3, 1955], Bank Street College Of Education

Children Here and Now ... Notes from 69 Bank Street

Becoming "more so" by Lucy Sprague Mitchell; Old words and young meanings; Personality growth in school, by Barbara Biber; Stories and poems, by the children; Notes from our workshops, by the workshop staff; Not a single thing happened, by Louise P. Woodcock, They find their voices, by Leone Adelson; Helen Keller, by Anne Sullivan; Here and now children at 69 Bank Street, by Edith Bjornson Sunley; The impact of stories on children, Claudia Lewis and Virginia Stern; Message from the President of …


Children ...Here And Now [No. 2, 1954], Bank Street College Of Education Jan 1954

Children ...Here And Now [No. 2, 1954], Bank Street College Of Education

Children Here and Now ... Notes from 69 Bank Street

Bank Street: Past to here and now; and in the future, by Lucy Sprague Mitchell; Is modern education anti-intellectual? by Meyer Rabban; Code for Snipers, by Nina Ridenour; Changing concepts of norms, by Barbara Biber, Jimmy wonders how things work, by Lucy Sprague Mitchell; Stories and poems, by the children; Children's reaction to a teacher's story, by Marguerita Rudolph, Bill, by Carra Matthews; A new approach to parent-teacher education, by Agnes N. Bass, Two Bank Street College conferences; A four year old truck …