CEP: Counseling, Educational Psychology, & Special Education
ED: Education
TE: Teacher Education
Instructor: Dr. Ralph Putnam
This class focused on bringing technology into math instruction. Throughout this class, we researched many different technological games and resources to integrate into and support our math curriculums. The instruction focused on all four domains of mathematic education. We learned how to "vet" a quality math resource and created an online library to store all of the resources we collected.
ANNOTATED TRANSCRIPT
I designed this annotated transcript to display the courses I took during my time at Michigan State University. Each course has a brief description of the course and speaks to what insights I gained during that class.
Instructor: Kyle Shack
This course helped me discern how to be a leader in education. There is more to it than managing students or teacher. As a technological leader, you need to successfully build relationships with all community stakeholders and hold them accountable to our communal goal, while giving the right amount of support. The pinnacle of this course was creating a vision statement to illustrate authentic learning experiences for students with the use of technology.
Dr. Steven Weiland
This course took an in-depth look at the importance of education self-reflective inquiry. We had the opportunity to study a variety of different educational philosophers and learn how they came up with their strategies and theories. This class was unique in the fact that it encouraged singular work, claiming that solo reflection was the best way to build one's own philosophy. The course finished by asking us to reflect on our own experiences as a teacher and student, specifically in regards to technology in the classroom.
Instructor: Meenakshi Sharma
The Next Generation Science Standards are puzzling to teachers across the nation. They have been rolled out in some districts, but not others. This class dove into the standards and helped us navigate the cross-cutting concepts in conjunction with the standards. We practiced creating units based on science phenomenons that would capture our students' interests and attention.
Instructors: Dr. Andrea Zellner and Swati Mehta
In the rush of fitting the entire curriculum into a school year, a lot of time creativity is the first thing to go out the window. This class aimed to bring creativity back into the limelight of the classroom. We learned about the different aspects that make up the concept of creativity and how we can use these aspects to create lessons. We created a creativity journal to showcase our lessons.
Instructor: Tracy Weippert
This course has historically been required by the state of Michigan in order to upgrade your provisional teaching certificate to a professional teaching certificate. After taking this course it was clear to me why this is. This course helped us examine the different aspects that makeup literacy instruction as well as the best practices for literacy instruction to be implemented in the classroom. During this course, I conducted a case study on one of my students. I created two phonics lessons and wrote a study explaining her reactions to them.
Instructor: Scott Jarvie
The curriculum is obviously an important part of the educational world, however, it plays an even larger role than most teachers realize. This class explained the importance of the explicit curriculum, but also the implicit curriculum, what students are learning that is not being explicitly taught from our actions, priorities, and school set up. During this course, I wrote a personal educational philosophy and a dissection of the implicit curriculum created by the setup and decoration of my classroom.
Instructor: Dr. Patricia Edwards and Tracy Weippert
This course went hand-in-hand with Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners. During this class, we discussed the best practices of teaching writing in both whole and small group settings. We also examined the qualities of successful writing curriculums. During this course, I spent the semester writing an in-depth analysis of the new guided reading and writing curriculum that has been recently adopted by our district.
Instructor: Dr. Laura Apol
This course offered an eye-opening analysis of awards in children's literate. Often times, people mistake famous awards such as the Caldecott and the Newbery award for stamps of perfection, but in reality, they are awarded based on the committee's personal preferences. During this class, we compared winners of both these awards throughout different time periods. We compared different themes and literary elements that seemed to merit the awards. To complete the class, we wrote a final piece illustrating these shifts and discussing how these award winners should be perceived and utilized in the classroom.
Instructors: Dr. Matthew Koehler & Aric Guant
This final course at Michigan State University was designed to help us create this portfolio you are reading. Throughout the semester we built a library full of artifacts from our work in the MAED program. We collected and analyzed our work, and worked alongside our peers to help showcase our work in an efficient way.