Director, Early Childhood Center
BA, State University of New York-Buffalo. MSEd, Bank Street College of Education. Lorayne Carbon has been the Director of the Early Childhood Center since 2003. Lorayne is a graduate of SUNY Buffalo and holds a MSEd from Bank Street College of Education. Her prior work includes teaching Head Start, preschool and kindergarten and directing childcare programs in Westchester County. Lorayne was an adjunct for many years at Westchester Community College, teaching coursework in early childhood foundations and curriculum. She has facilitated the graduate advisement seminar in the Art of Teaching graduate program and is a faculty advisory member of the SLC Child Development Institute. Supporting children and families within a caring, kind community, coupled with the ability to nurture the progressive, play based program at the Early Childhood Center is what keeps Lorayne excited about the work she does on a daily basis. SLC, 2003–
Graduate Courses 2023-2024
MSEd Art of Teaching
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.
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.