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Learning To Teach: Observing And Reflecting, Nancy Nager Apr 2018

Learning To Teach: Observing And Reflecting, Nancy Nager

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This video series, “Learning to Teach,” provides a platform for professional development in early childhood education. It introduces viewers to compelling early childhood classroom footage accompanied by facilitated discussions about observations and teaching practices. You will get a hands-on look at how beginning teachers learn to closely observe children and engage in reflective conversations about children, materials, the classroom environment and themselves.


Descriptive Inquiry At Bank Street: Building Intellectual Community While Responding To Accreditation, Jessica Charles Feb 2018

Descriptive Inquiry At Bank Street: Building Intellectual Community While Responding To Accreditation, Jessica Charles

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Over the 2016-17 academic year, Bank Street Graduate School faculty and staff participated in a school-wide Descriptive Inquiry process to examine their programs and pedagogy. As part of the process, faculty met regularly to share their practices and to strengthen their well-established programs in teacher and leader preparation, museum education, and child life. Dean Cecelia Traugh initiated this process, drawing on her extensive experience implementing Descriptive Inquiry in higher education settings, in order to help faculty reflect on their practice, improve program quality, and build organizational coherence.


Prepared To Teach Urban Transformation Strategy, Bank Street College Of Education Jan 2018

Prepared To Teach Urban Transformation Strategy, Bank Street College Of Education

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When teachers quit, education fails. Prepared To Teach is solving the crisis of teacher turnover in urban public schools.


Urban Transformation Deck, Bank Street College Of Education Jan 2018

Urban Transformation Deck, Bank Street College Of Education

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Prepared To Teach's urban transformation summary.


Sample Mou For Residency Partnerships, Bank Street College Of Education Jan 2018

Sample Mou For Residency Partnerships, Bank Street College Of Education

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This sample document reflects Prepared To Teach's best learning to date. Partners can proceed in their work without a formal MOU in place, and develop one at an appropriate time to best support their needs and partnership.