The Bank Street approach, also called the developmental-interaction approach, is an early-childhood and elementary pedagogy originating at the Bank Street College of Education in New York, founded by Lucy Sprague Mitchell in 1916, that organizes classrooms around exploratory play, social studies as an integrating core subject, and a teacher's close observation of each child's individual developmental stage rather than a fixed skills sequence. It has shaped progressive early-childhood practice across many independent and public schools in the United States.
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Central QuestionHow does a teacher meet each child where they are and support the whole child's social, emotional and cognitive development through active engagement with materials, ideas and people? 1 Connections
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1. Our Approach, Bank Street College of Education
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all individuals learn best when they are actively engaged with materials, ideas, and people, and that authentic growth requires diverse and nurturing opportunities for ongoing social, emotional, and cognitive development.
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Associated With: John Dewey, Bank Street College of Education pageQuote, Associated With: John Dewey, Bank Street College of Education page
was influenced by the thinking of Edward Thorndike and John Dewey, both of whom Mitchell had studied with at Columbia University
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