Submitted by Jean Holzenthaler (not verified) on December 6, 2007 - 15:34.
I was a student at Bank Street College in 1966-67 and received my masters in education from Bank Street in 1976. I taught pre-k and kg. for many years in 3 different states. The hands-on, real life techniques I learned served me, and my students, well through many prescribed public school curriculum changes.
I taught inner city families' students, military families' students and middle class and upper-middle class families' students. All these students thrived on loving attention and learning activities that engaged their active and creative energies.
Now that I am retired from public school teaching, I am very glad that my formal education as a teacher is still thought to be meaningful and relevant. However, I am sad to see that after at more than 40 years, the Bank Street way is not more widely regarded as THE WAY to train new teachers and thereby influence young student's learning.
long time pre-k teacher
Submitted by Jean Holzenthaler (not verified) on December 6, 2007 - 15:34.
I was a student at Bank Street College in 1966-67 and received my masters in education from Bank Street in 1976. I taught pre-k and kg. for many years in 3 different states. The hands-on, real life techniques I learned served me, and my students, well through many prescribed public school curriculum changes.
I taught inner city families' students, military families' students and middle class and upper-middle class families' students. All these students thrived on loving attention and learning activities that engaged their active and creative energies.
Now that I am retired from public school teaching, I am very glad that my formal education as a teacher is still thought to be meaningful and relevant. However, I am sad to see that after at more than 40 years, the Bank Street way is not more widely regarded as THE WAY to train new teachers and thereby influence young student's learning.