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Fall 2011
Reflection & Inquiry in Teaching Practice I
Instructor: Claire Yates
This course was a combination course with TE 804 and focused on reflection and inquiry into teaching. The section that I was placed in was specific to social studies. In this class I worked on discussing the issues that I faced in my internship in particular to social studies. Over the length of this course, I analyzed many of the lessons I taught, developed a proposal for a professional conference, and planned a full unit for implementation and reflection.
Spring 2012
Professional Roles & Teaching Practice II
Instructor: Dorothea Anagnostopoulos, Ph.D.
This course was an extension of TE 801 in that it focused on expanding the repertoire for young teachers and identifying the problems that are faced as a new teacher. This course was set-up as a hybrid course where I met with my fellow colleagues and discussed my internship experience. In this course, as well as TE 801, I was tasked with expanding my teaching practices by planning new lessons and activities for my classroom. As I implemented these lessons, I would take notes and analyze the lessons and modify them to be used again in another lesson.
Reflection & Inquiry in Teaching Practice II
Instructor: Claire Yates
This class was an extension of TE 802 in that it focused on the same types of assignments and discussions that were done in TE 802. The main difference with this course was that I was tasked with creating a portfolio of my entire internship experience. This hard copy portfolio was meant to help me during job interviews. This portfolio included work across all of my internship courses, such as teaching analysis writings, as well as many of the lessons, activities, and unit plans that I developed during my internship. This portfolio also include my resume and recommendation letters. Following the completion of the portfolio, I was tasked with conducting a presentation of my portfolio and internship experience in front of my MSU field instructor, my lead-teacher, as well as the building and floor principals of the school that I interned at.
Summer 2016
Electronic Assessment for Teaching & Learning
Instructors: Paul Morsink, Ph.D & Sarah Keenan
This course was focused on the use of assessment in an electronic learning environment. In this course, I looked at the different principles and strategies that are used in regard to electronic assessment. I also practiced using different web-based tools (i.e., Google Earth, YouTube, or Minecraft) for how they could be used as an assessment, either formative or summative. For my final project for this course, I created a final assessment using Google Earth that tasked my students with creating a Google Earth tour of an historical event(s) to help understand why historical events/patterns are interconnected and to help them geographically visualize the event(s).
Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners
Instructor: Shannon Prince
This course focused on the use of reading strategies to help learners to improve their literacy levels. Throughout the course, I examined a variety of methods to help accommodate all types of literacy learners. I was tasked with developing a literacy lesson using a specific reading practice and actually teach the lesson to a student. I chose to focus my practice on cause-and-effect literacy comprehension. In this practice, my students were tasked with practicing cause-and-effect reading strategies and then after reading several sources, identifying and explaining causes and/or effects in the readings that were assigned.
Fall 2016
Technology, Teaching, & Learning Across Curriculum
Instructors: Binbin Zheng, Ph.D. & Diana Campbell
This course was focused on the use of technology in the classroom and how it could be used to enhance instructional practices. In this course, I learned how to use several different web-based tools such as Flipgrid and Nowcomment in the context of my teaching. Also, I was able to gain more experience in using tools such as screencasts and Weebly to help shape my curriculum and instruction. At the end of the course, I developed a full course unit on WWI for my AP World History students using Weebly.com.
Educational Inquiry
Instructors: Steven Weiland, Ph.D.
This course focused on examining the overall educational experience. I examined several different methods that have been used to examine how people learn and how teachers examine and reflect on their practices/experiences. In particular, I looked at inquiry practices such as journaling and personal introspection. I determined that ethnographic participant observation was the type of inquiry that best suited me due to how well it fits within the social studies discipline.
Spring 2017
Teaching in Post-Secondary Education
Instructors: John M. Dirkx, Ph.D.
This course focused on teaching after high school. In this course, I was tasked with examining and analyzing a variety of educational practices and strategies for post-secondary education. While analyzing these practices, I was tasked with developing my own teaching philosophy as if I was going to teach a class at the post-secondary level. Furthermore, I even developed a full course syllabus for an introductory world history course I could teach at the college level.
Summer 2017
Teaching Students Online
Instructors: Anne Heintz, Ph.D. & Swati Mehta
This course focused on teaching students through the design of either online or blended courses. Through the exploration of several course management systems and the discussion of several readings about online/blended learning, I settled on using weebly.com for my blended AP US History unit. The unit I designed was a blended unit on the Civil War which gave my students the ability to work on several portions of the unit either in-class or at home. Also, the unit was designed to help the students improve their comprehension of the historical skills that are needed to succeed on the AP US test.
Capstone in Educational Technology
Instructors: Matthew Koehler, Ph.D., Brittany Dillman, Aric Gaunt, & Sarah Keenan
As the final course of the MAET program, ED 870 was focused on the creation of a final portfolio. This portfolio is an electronic document that displays my educational experiences and philosophies. While creating the portfolio, I have collaborated with my fellow colleagues to develop a more comprehensive portfolio. Overall, this course was the final effort that brought together everything that I had learned while enrolled in the MAET program.