Director, Early Childhood Center
BA, State University of New York-Buffalo. MSEd, Bank Street College of Education. Special areas of interest include social justice issues in the early childhood classroom and creating aesthetic learning environments for young children. Former early childhood teacher and director at Oak Lane Child Care Center, Chappaqua, New York, and education coordinator of the Virginia Marx Children’s Center of Westchester Community College. An adjunct professor at Westchester Community College, Carbon is a frequent workshop leader and speaker at seminars and conferences on early childhood education. She has been director of the Early Childhood Center since August 2003 and is a faculty advisor to the College’s Child Development Institute. SLC, 2003–
Graduate Courses 2022-2023
MSEd Art of Teaching
Advisement Seminar
Graduate Seminar—Spring
The theme of the Advisement Seminar is to explore the connections among early-childhood education, childhood education, and the ongoing education of teachers in the content disciplines. The seminar begins with observations of the very youngest children to help us begin to frame continuities and differences. Faculty from the Early Childhood Center and the undergraduate liberal-arts faculty will help us think about learning as an ongoing process across ages and stages of development, leading sessions devoted to curriculum and its evolution both for children in classrooms and for us as teachers. We will consider intercultural perspectives and themes related to teaching in a diverse society; view videos and films of children, in classrooms, who are engaged in drawing, writing, reading, imaginative play, and social-studies explorations; read source material in the content disciplines; and engage in hands-on explorations.
Faculty
Previous Courses
MSEd Art of Teaching
Advisement Seminar
Graduate Seminar—Spring
The theme of the Advisement Seminar is to explore the connections among early-childhood education, childhood education, and the ongoing education of teachers in the content disciplines. The seminar begins with observations of the very youngest children to help us begin to frame continuities and differences. Faculty from the Early Childhood Center and the undergraduate liberal-arts faculty will help us think about learning as an ongoing process across ages and stages of development, leading sessions devoted to curriculum and its evolution both for children in classrooms and for us as teachers. We will consider intercultural perspectives and themes related to teaching in a diverse society; view videos and films of children, in classrooms, who are engaged in drawing, writing, reading, imaginative play, and social-studies explorations; read source material in the content disciplines; and engage in hands-on explorations.
Faculty
Art of Teaching Graduate Seminar
Graduate Seminar—Spring
Art of Teaching Graduate Seminar, taken in our students’ final semester, is designed to support the integration and synthesis of students’ inquiry into teaching and learning, conducted throughout their time in the graduate program, as they prepare to enter their own classrooms. Students will make connections and reflect across their experiences in Field Work, Student-Teaching, and other coursework. They will gain further insight into various areas of content, pedagogy, and professional topics in the field of education. The course is conducted in collaboration with our Early Childhood Center faculty and staff and offers the students additional opportunities to learn from them through hands-on, reflective workshops on a variety of topics in Early Childhood and Childhood Education. In addition, Sarah Lawrence College faculty, Art of Teaching alumni and other guest speakers will lead sessions on topics within particular content-area disciplines. Students will also use the course as a primary space for collaboration and feedback (in addition to individual advising) on the development and preparation of their Masters Oral Thesis presentations.