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Education Faculty & Staff Directory
First Name
Erica
Last Name
Hamilton
Email
hamilter@gvsu.edu
Role(s)
- Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs
- Associate Professor
Office Address
3090 James H. Zumberge Hall (JHZ)
Office Phone
616-331-2400
Department
- Literacy, Educational Foundations, and Technology
Program
- Literacy Studies
- Reading
About
Erica Hamilton currently serves in GVSU’s Office of the Provost as an Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs.
In the Education Programs, Erica works with pre-service and in-service teachers and serves as a K-12 teacher coach and professional development provider. Erica’s teaching focuses on helping teachers support and extend K-12 students’ literacy and learning. Her research interests focus on teacher learning and professional development, place-based education, literacy, and women in higher education.
Teaching Areas
- Content Area Literacy
- Reading/Language Arts
Scholarly Interests
- In-service and pre-service teacher learning and professional development
- Place-based education
- Disciplinary/content area literacy
- Educational technology
Degrees
- Ph.D., Michigan State University (Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy)
- M.A., Michigan State University (Curriculum and Teaching)
- B.A., Michigan State University (English)
Academic & Professional Activities
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
- International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
- Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL)
- Michigan Reading Association (MRA)
- National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE)
Scholarly Interests & Research
Hamilton, E.R. & Margot, K.C. (2023). Using practice-based learning to extend undergraduate teaching and learning. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 17(1), 1-11.
Hamilton, E.R. & Marckini-Polk, L. (2023). The impact of place-based education on middle school students’ literacy and environmental stewardship. Cogent Education, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2022.2163789
Hamilton, E.R., Pawelka, K., Morrow, T., & Markini-Polk, L. (2022). Putting problem-based learning in its place: Elementary students’ rain gardens. Science and Children, 59(6), 58-61.
Taylor, L.K., Hamilton, E.R., Burns, A., & Leonard, A. (2022). Teacher educators’ apprenticeships of observation and community-based field experiences. Frontiers in Education. 7:754759. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2022.754759
Han, M. & Hamilton, E.R. (2022). Promoting engagement and learning: Using the fishbowl strategy in online and hybrid college courses. College Teaching. DOI: 10.1080/87567555.2021.2024127
VanderLugt, D., Levandoski, K., & Hamilton, E.R. (2022). Nurturing the learning zone: Moving toward hope and possibility while coaching through the COVID-19 pandemic. Michigan Reading Journal, 54(3), 25-30.
Hamilton, E.R., Van Duinen, D.V. (2021). Hybrid spaces: Adolescent literacy and learning in a museum. Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy, 64(5), 511-520. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.1123
Hamilton, E.R. & VanderLugt, D. (2021). Beyond brick walls and computer screens: The story of a university-middle school writing partnership. In Ash, A., Clark, M.D., & Drew, C. (Eds.). Imaginative Teaching Through Creative Writing: A Guide for Secondary Classrooms. Bloomsbury.
Hamilton, E.R., Van Duinen, D.V., & Ruhmor, G. (2020). Inquiry and counter-witnessing in COVID-19. Michigan Reading Journal, 53(1), 51-55.
Recent Presentations
Hamilton, E.R. & Burns, A. (2023). Learning all the time: Insights, reflections, and leadership journeys of two women leaders. ACE Women’s Network Leadership Conference, Washington, DC.
Van Duinen, D.V. & Hamilton, E.R. (2023). Empowering beginning secondary teachers to use disciplinary literacy and content area literacy strategies to support adolescents’ literacy development. Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, HI.
Hamilton, E.R. & Van Duinen, D.V. (2022). Strategies as lampposts: Using disciplinary literacy and content area literacy strategies in secondary ELA to support adolescents’ literacy development. National Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA.
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