Action-Oriented Inquiry Project (AOI) | Observation and Interview Study of Graduates (OIS) | SOLO Project (Structure of Observed Learning Outcome) | Surveys | Analysis of Achievement Test Score Data | 5Fridays
Teams of Bank Street faculty, with our Arts and Sciences partners at Sarah Lawrence College, the American Museum of Natural History, and TERC, have been working to define a Bank Street approach to teaching based on empirical evidence gathered through observations, interviews, and pupil work samples from classrooms of Bank Street College candidates and graduates. This work engaged nearly 50 educators in collecting, sorting and analyzing evidence on our candidates and graduates, and in the first three years of the TNE project we conducted over 40 teacher case studies. This effort resulted in refining domains and themes of teaching and goals for content knowledge for teachers, articulated as the Continuum of Teaching. The Continuum represents one of the tools we will be using in our Observation and Interview follow up study of our graduates. In addition, as part of a cross-case analysis process, participants generated over-arching themes, issues and programmatic implications of our AOI Project. These evidence-basedthemes and implications serve as one source of evidence for our 5Fridays effort.