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Bank Street College has a long and rich history of involvement with other countries. In the past, this involvement has included consultation and technical assistance by individual faculty in countries such as India, Singapore, and Rwanda. In addition, there are study abroad programs for students in Uganda, Morocco and Costa Rico. More recently, Bank Street College has entered into Memoranda of Agreement with institutions in Cambodia and the Dominican Republic.
Bank Street College in partnership with the Ullens Educational Foundation and Kathmandu University is launching the Ullens Center for Educator Development with the ambitious purpose of strengthening teaching and learning in Nepal. In the words of Jon Snyder, the Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Bank Street, "we (at Bank Street) value this partnership and consider our work in Nepal to be among the most valuable of our endeavours, and believe that the potential to influence the learning and life options of children as a result of this work to be enormous."
UCED will provide quality professional development for school leaders and teachers to enable them to bring about leadership and instructional reform in the government and private schools in Nepal.
Initial Professional Development initiatives include:
Bank Street faculty will lead intensive, week-long workshops that will provide participants with the equivalent of a Bank Street graduate course from the division of Educational Leadership and other department of the college. Plans are underway to allow for graduate credit for the participants.
Workshop participants will be encouraged to join together and form a coalition of schools through the School Reform Initiative (SRI). SRI will encourage the implementation of workshop learning in the participants≠ schools and provide a forum for participants to share their successes and difficulties.
The Ullens School has been established to provide a setting where the principles that guide the Bank Street philosophy of education are implemented. http://www.bankstreet.edu/sfc/about.html
Workshop participants will have the opportunity to observe, discuss and evaluate the principles of child centered and progressive teaching practices as they can be enacted in the Nepalese context.
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Workshop Participants Nepal 2008
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A steering committee, representative of Bank Street College faculty will advise the Dean of the Graduate School, Dr. Jon Snyder.
The Project Director for Banks Street is
Mary McKenna, Ph.D
1-212-875-4765
mmckenna@bankstreet.edu
Ullens Center for Educator Development www.uced.edu.np
Coordinator
Anup Tiwari
011-977-1-5000118
anup@uced.edu.np