Dr. Erin Gilreath Carlson

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Dr. Erin Gilreath Carlson

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Director of General Education | Lecturer of Spanish

Edens 图书馆 | 117E

803.786.3033

传记

Erin Gilreath Carlson is an alumna of 哥伦比亚大学 and credits it with preparing her to be a strong educator. She taught in various high schools around South Carolina for 10 years before moving to the university level, where she has taught for another 10 years. While teaching full time, Erin earned her Masters of Education in Languages from the College of Charleston and, 晚些时候, her Doctorate in Language and Literacy from the University of South Carolina. Her research interests include examining issues of identities as they intersect with literacies and cultural practices and perspectives. Erin lives in Columbia with her dreamboat husband and two beautiful, 活泼的, and mischievous daughters. She enjoys traveling, 举重, discussing haute couture and participating in her neighborhood book club. 

奖 & 成就

  • 2021 - University of South Carolina, College of Arts and Sciences 本科 Teaching Award for Professional 教师
  • 2020 - South Carolina Foreign Language Teachers’ Association World Languages Teacher of the Year
  • 2019 - Level Up: Increasing the Complexity of Student Expression – Voted Top Ten of FLANC (out of 125 sessions), Foreign Language Association of North Carolina Fall Conference
  • 2019 - University of South Carolina, College of Arts and Sciences Incubator for Teaching Innovation INCUBATE Innovative Teacher, 秋季学期
  • 2019 - University of South Carolina, College of Arts and Sciences Incubator for Teaching Innovation INCUBATE Innovative Teacher, 春季学期
  • 2019 - Post a Professor’s Secret – Voted University of South Carolina, College of Arts and Sciences Incubator for Teaching Innovation INCUBATE Design Challenge Winner
  • 2017 - The Big Three: Three activities to get your students reading, speaking & writing in the target language every day – Voted Top Ten of FLANC (out of 118 sessions), Foreign Language Association of North Carolina Fall Conference
  • 2017 - Academia LatinoAmerica Scholarship, awarded by Southern Conference On Language Teaching

出版物

  • 麦迪逊,年代. M., & 卡尔森,E. G. (新闻). Intentional focus on social justice through incremental changes to classroom instruction. 在L. J. 伦道夫,年代. M. 约翰逊, & K. 戴维森(Eds.), How we take action: Social justice in K-16 language classrooms.
  • 卡尔森,E. G. (January, 2017) What Should You Know for FeriaSCSC? La Vela: the 新闻letter of AATSPSC.
  • 卡尔森,E. G. (2016). A Framework for Advancing Proficiency in Language Learner Output. The Language Educator, 11(2), 46-49.
  • 卡尔森,E.G. (September, 2016) My Three Go-tos. La Vela: the 新闻letter of AATSPSC.

What’s your favorite thing about the 哥伦比亚大学 campus?

I have always loved the vintage mailboxes still in use today! Those mailboxes connect students across generations of alumnae (and now alumni!). I love to imagine the decades of students using the same lettered dials, opening the same small doors, and receiving the same kinds of news: winning awards, letters filled with heartbreak, plans for future trips, updates about friends and family members... So much about our campus--and college life in general--has changed so much, but those adorable mailboxes are practically time machines!