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ED 800: Concepts of Educational Inquiry
Instructor: Steven Weiland Completed: Spring 2013 Course Description: ED 800 was the first course I completed in the Michigan State MAED program as it was designed to be introductory and foundational. Through Dr. Weiland I became familiar with different educational inquiries: classroom-based or teacher research, biography and history, philosophy and history of education, ethnographic observation with autobiography, and theories of the mind and the curriculum. I learned about "digital natives", John Dewey's "nature of the child", and Howard Gardner's "virtues." Most importantly, though, I gained a better appreciation for the nature of teaching and learning. CEP 815: Technology and Leadership
Instructor: Leigh Graves Wolf Completed: Summer 2013 Course Description: Missional vs. Instrumental Thinking, and Rooke and Torbert's Seven Transformations of Leadership were just a few of the important concepts discussed throughout CEP 815. The culminating final assignment was a sustainability technology project. In this project I utilized all the concepts learned during CEP 815 and created a technology plan with 100% sustainability. I first identified the teaching/learning problem and created a stakeholder survey. I then created a list of cost-effective technologies to address the problem, found solutions to pay for the initiative, and planned for final implementation. In the end, I left this course being able to better answer the question, "Why should anyone be led by you?" CEP 818: Creativity in Teaching & Learning
Instructor: Punya Mishra Completed: Fall 2013 Course Description: In CEP 818 I learned the true importance of creativity in teaching and learning (as the course name suggests). Through many hands-on and "minds-on" explorations, I was able to discover what it means to be creative, how to integrate creativity in my own teaching practices, and how to develop creativity within my students. By looking at creativity through a specific lens (I chose propaganda as it best fit the two subjects I teach: language arts and social studies), I was able to explore the 7 key trans-disciplinary cognitive tools for creativity: Perceiving, Patterning, Abstracting, Embodied Thinking, Modeling, Playing, and Synthesizing. EAD 860: Concept of Learning Society
Instructor: Steven Weiland Completed: Spring 2014 Course Description: After reading two phenomenal novels (Ken Bain's What the Best College Students Do and William Powers' Hamlet's Blackberry) and viewing one phenomenal film (Erin Brockovich), I gained additional appreciation for the concept of the learning society as coined by Robert Maynard Hutchins during EAD 860. Throughout the semester I came to understand the different uses of learning within the learning society: self-education, navigation, passion and curiosity, and learning as a process. All the extensive reading and writing assignments assisted me in better understanding life-long learning as it is viewed and present in the learning society. EAD 801: Leadership and Organizational Development
Instructor: Deborah McFalone Completed: Summer 2014 Course Description: When completed, EAD 801 will provide strategies and protocols to assist all leaders for current and future foreseeable problems. I have appreciated the diversity this class brings: some of my peers are current principals and educational leaders, others are new to the education world but wish to lead someday, and still others are leaders in other organizations. The two culminating assignments are an exploration project (designed to afford me the opportunity to analyze and discuss teacher leadership through multiple interviews of current leaders) and a reflective narrative essay (designed to guide me in reflecting on the important learnings during the semester. |
CEP 820: Teaching K-12 Students Online
Instructor: Leigh Graves Wolf Completed: Spring 2013 Course Description: I completed CEP 820 along with ED 800 during my first semester in the MAED Program. In this course I created an online course with little more than some ideas and support. I found the experience exciting, interesting, and terrifying all at the same time. After choosing Blackboard's CourseSites as my content management system (CMS), I created a course for my 8th grade American history students. Additionally, I gained valuable insight into bringing my original class content into the digital world making an inviting experience for my students as well as learning about new platforms to broadcast my ideas. TE 846: Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners
Instructor: Chad Waldron Completed: Summer 2013 Course Description: I originally only took TE 846 to satisfy the reading requirement for the Michigan Professional Certificate; however, upon completion I now feel more adequate to evaluate, design, and discuss literacy instruction practices. Through peer live chats and many readings, I became prepared for the final Literacy Learner Analysis Project. During the intense multi-week project I learned about a struggling reader's literacy history as well as emotional reading climate and home and family reading practices. Additionally, I designed and taught two reading lessons to the student. In the end I analyzed the test data, reflected on the lesson plans, and made a reading recommendation to the child's parent. EAD 824: Leading Teacher Learning
Instructor: Nancy Colflesh Completed: Fall 2013 Course Description: During the Fall 2013 semester my beautiful little girl was born. Although it was a very stressful time, the birth of my child helped better frame important concepts being learned in EAD 824. Dr. Colflesh did an exceptional job guiding me on the path to understanding the importance of instructional leadership on both the teacher and the student. Among many other things, through Dr. Colflesh's tutelage, I assessed the culture for professional learning in my school, I assessed my own ability to lead, I developed a spending plan to support the year-long plan for teaching learning, and I learned about leadership strategies and protocols. TE 831: Teaching School Subject Matter with Technology
Instructor: Doug Hartman Completed: Spring 2014 Course Description: The information I gleaned from TE 831 has proven to be very practical within my own classroom. Some of the topics discussed in TE 831 include, but are certainly not limited to: Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge Theory (TPACK), digital literacy, citizenship, and storytelling, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS*T). I especially enjoyed the "Tech Tools" posts. Each student was responsible for searching, finding, and discussing an online technology tool that would be effective within the classroom. This has been very useful in my context. ED 870: Capstone
Instructor: Matthew Koehler Completed: Summer 2014 Course Website: ED 870 Site Course Description: At the end of ED 870 I will have produced a finalized online professional portfolio. This portfolio serves as a means to end; upon completion of the portfolio, I will hopefully have an accurate portrayal of the work I've completed during my time in the MAED program. ED 870 serves as a reflective course. I will be looking back to reflect upon past learnings; however, I will also be looking forward to speculate what all this information means for my future. The course ends with an online exhibition of the portfolio to a group of my peers and instructors in order to showcase my work throughout the semester. |