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MSU Course Work

 


ED 800      Concepts in Educational Inquiry:       Dr. Steven Weiland      Fall '09

​​                       ED 800 was an introductory course for the Master’s program. Its focus was educational inquiry and

                       used different types of literature to explore questions in education. Throughout the course, we

                       discussed the "foundations of education", classroom-based and teacher-based inquiry, the history

                       of schooling, theories of intelligence and the importance of curriculum, different learning styles

                       based on culture, and finally the importance of embracing new technologies in the classroom. The

                       course was self-paced which provided a unique experience from those I was used. 

                        Link to course work: Unit 6

                        Link to course work: Unit 7



ED 870      Capstone Seminar:      Dr. Matthew Koehler      Fall '12

                      ED 870 is designed to engage students in discussion and reflection on learning in the Master of Arts

                      in Education program. Students were asked to create a Web-based portfolio that presents a well-

                      organized representation of their work and thinking in the program and participate in online

                      discussion with other students in the seminar around their developing portfolios. Along with

                      representing themselves, their coursework, resume, and educational/professional backgrounds,

                      students were asked to reflect on past goals and develop new goals and examine how the program

                      has helped them to realize stated goals. In addition, students were asked to envision their future as

                      a learner.  

                       Link to my Capstone

CEP 813    Electronic Portfolios for Teaching & Learning:  Dr. Patrick Dickson  Spring '10​

                      In this course we learned about electronic portfolios on the Web as a way to offer teachers and

                      students an extraordinary new medium for self-expression and web presentations.  We learned

                      about the wide variety of applications for electronic portfolios in education. In this course, I created

                      my first Website which is still available today.

                       Link to the Electronic Portfolio ​


 

CEP 818    Creativity in Teaching & Learning:     Dr. Punya Mishra      Fall '09
​                      This course focused on a variety of ways to help increase creativity overall and in the classroom. 

                      Over the course of the semester we took an in-depth look at perception, patterning, abstracting,

                      embodied thinking, modeling, playing and synthesizing as ways to spark new thinking and increase

                      creativity in the classroom.  

                      Link to Final Paper

CEP 817    Learning Technology Though Design:      Dr. Punya Mishra       Spring '09

                      In CEP 817, I had the opportunity to learn how design is an essential component of teaching. 

                      Elements of good and bad design were discussed, as well as the ramifications of each. The

                      culminating project for this course was a website designed for students.  I worked to create a

                      functional, well-designed learning tool for my class, which I think I was successful in. However, I

                      chose to use Geocities (yes I’m dating myself) which has since been shut down and thus it is lost

                      forever.

                       Link to my final paper 

                       Link to a lesson that was included in my "Big Kahuna Project

                                        *Yahoo has closed down the site I used to create my whole project, this is all that is left.

KIN 856    Physical Bases of Coaching:      George Harnick      Summer '12

​                  This class was dedicated to learning necessary physical aspects of coaching.  We learned various

                     muscle groups, how to put together proper nutrition plans, write stretching and warm-up exercised

                     as well as cool downs and proper strength and conditioning regimes.  Most of the time we were

                     asked to look at each – unit though the eyes of the sport that you coach or would hope to coach. 

                     My coaching focus is based on High School Football and Baseball so the supplements and workout

                     documents are more geared toward their parents.

                      Proper technique for hitting a baseball

                      Nutrition Plan 

                      Baseball Injury Rehab

TE 831      Teaching Subject Matter with Technology:   Erik Byker   Spring '10​

                      TE 831 focused on integrating technology into our everyday classroom curriculum. We spent the

                      course exploring different technologies, many that were web-based, that could be implemented into

                      any classroom. The importance of integrating technology with subject matter is making sure the

                      technology matches the content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge of both the students and

                      teachers. We worked together with our peers to create a resource for all of the technology materials

                      we created throughout the course that could be adapted for any lesson or classroom. Below you

                      will find a link to the digital story I created and has somehow accumulated over 18,000 views on

                      Youtube.

                      Link to my Digital Story

 

TE 843      Secondary Reading Assessment and Instruction: Dr. D. Hartman Spring '12

                     Secondary Reading Assessment and Instruction course focused on reading and writing instructional

                     methods and assessment strategies in grades 6-12. This course helped me develop a better

                     understand of teaching literacy to middle school students. Through the study of, creation and

                     implementation of multiple case studies I developed the skills and confidence to implement some

                     of the learned methods and assessments to use for my middle school students. Below is a link to

                     the week long lesson plan that I designed for the course. 

                     Link to Final Project - Week long lesson plan

TE 846      Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners:   Laurel Disney   Summer '11

                     TE 846 focused on differentiating among literacy learners. We spent the beginning of the course

                     discussing our own reading and writing curriculum with our peers and different things we do on our

                     own to differentiate for different leveled readers and writers.  The second portion of the class

                     focused on creating different types of assessments for reading and writing. Finally, we discussed

                     with our peers our different accommodations and modifications that we currently do and could do

                     in the future to help differentiate with reading and writing.  Below you will find a link to the main

                     project from this course. We were asked to pick a student to focus on in our classroom and to create

                     two separate, individualized lessons for the student and document what we did and our assessment

                     results.

                     Link to my Final Project

                     Link to my Final Paper



                  

TE 849      Methods for Teaching Children's and Adolescent Literature:  Bevin Roue Fall '12

                  In TE 849 we focused on becoming familiar with a wide range of children’s texts and evaluating the

                      literature.  We learned more in depth about the different ways for students to respond to text.  We

                      studied an array various types of literature including the graphic novel, picture books, chapter

                      books, poetry, and film.  I enjoyed the opportunity to read so many children’s books and learn how

                      to integrate them into my classroom as well as becoming familiar with well known children’s authors.

                      Link to Coarline Paper

                      Link to Literacy Autobiography

                      Link to Multicultural Literacy Paper

 

 

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