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Curriculum

Fieldwork

Participants spend three days a week working in carefully selected placements. Past classroom placements include the Muscota School in Washington Heights, PS20 in the Lower East Side, and the Renaissance School in Jackson Heights. Past policy placements include the Brooklyn Young Women’s Collective, the New York Historical Society, and Teachers Unit.

Coursework

Academic work at Bank Street College of Education includes a foundations course focusing on current issues in education, elective coursework, and the UES group seminar, where participants work with UES faculty to connect their academic coursework to fieldwork experiences, assess strategies, and share insights.  The UES seminar culminates in a final capstone project and presentation; in developing their final projects, participants work to meet a need they have observed in their fieldwork placement.

Coupled with weekly program advisement and field trips to other participant’s placements, museums, and other settings, the program coursework adds up to a total of 15 Bank Street credits.

To learn more about Bank Street and view a list of current course offerings, visit www.bankstreet.edu/gs/home.html.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This video by UES alum Graham Browne provides a brief introduction to the UES program.

 

"Studies at UES and Bank Street also gave me very interesting and hands-on perspectives on issues of diversity and multi-culturalism in a urban setting. The ideas I was exposed to, and the pedagogical skills that I acquired are definitely applicable to work situations outside of classroom teaching."
- UES Fall '08 Participant

 

"The Urban Education Semester helped me fall in love with New York, a City I have now called home for almost five years. My outstanding professors, advisors, mentors and peers inspired me to make New York my own and challenged me to think critically about my views on public education."
- UES Fall '06 Participant

 

To learn more about past UES experiences, click here.

 

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