Masters of Arts in Education Transcript
TE 802 Reflections & Inquiry in Teaching Practice I & TE 804 Reflections & Inquiry in Teaching Practice II
Fall 2009 & Spring 2010 - Jim Garrett
These courses were taken while I was student teaching, TE 802 was in the Fall, TE 804 was in the Spring. Reflections & Inquiry in Teaching Practice focused on teaching practices that were specific to teaching secondary social studies. For example, making sure we bring sources into the classroom that are reliable and unbiased. In a classroom filled with interns currently teaching social studies, we had the ability to bounce ideas off of each other and discuss best practices.
TE 803 Professional Roles & Teaching Practice II
Fall 2009 - Annie Fritzen
In this course, we spent time talking about different teaching practices. We were able to share our experiences from our placements and get feedback on those experiences. We also read a novel called, "Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56" which offered an interesting perspective into a difficult classroom. This gave us as student teachers a great outlook into different philosophies of teaching.
ED 800 Educational Inquiry
Fall 2014 - Steven Weiland
This class focused on many different aspects of teaching. Reading and assignments surrounded the use of different types of inquiry to critique and develop teaching practices. We played particular attention to John Dewey's ideas regarding inquiry, read Vivien Paley's "The Girl With the Brown Crayon", and watched The Whale Rider. All of these resources were used to discuss different practices of teacher inquiry.
CEP 818 Creativity in Teaching & Learning
Fall 2014 - Punya Mishra & Rohit Mehta
The course of the semester was spent learning about the different tools of creativity: Perceiving, Patterning, Abstracting, Embodied Thinking, Modeling, Play, and Synthesizing. With each new tool we learned we created something using that particular tool. What we created was surrounding the topic of our choice, a unit or lesson we would teach in our own classroom. At the end of the course, we wrote a White Paper (a guide for a particular topic) outlining what we had learned and then created an elevator pitch, suggesting the way we use the tools of creativity in our own classrooms.
TE 846 Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners
Spring 2015 - Pat Edwards
It is common knowledge that not all of our students are at the same reading level. It is important that we understand what some of those differences look like in our students and understand how to address those differences. That is what was covered in TE 846. We completed a case study on one of our own students and got the opportunity to create a lesson plan to help achieve the goal we set for them. This allowed us to practice different literacy strategies in a real situation.
EAD 830 Issues in Urban Education: Racial Achievement Gap
Spring 2015 - Christopher Dunbar
The racial achievement gap in education is one of the biggest problems facing education today. Issues in Urban Education: Racial Achievement Gap sought to educate us on the history of the achievement gap, what many scholars were saying regarding the achievement gap, as well as some of the potential solutions. In the end, we wrote a paper outlining what we saw as the most important problem impacting the achievement gap and proposed solutions we felt educators and administrators could attempt to use to close the gap. The racial achievement gap is something I have experienced in the classroom which made this course especially meaningful.
CEP 815 Technology & Leadership
Summer 2015 - Benjamin Gleason & Sarah Keenan
Technology for technology's sake. That is many teacher's biggest fear. It is important for schools to know how to effectively integrate technology into the classroom. The goal of this course was to highlight different aspects of technology in education so that as students, we felt capable of becoming leaders in our own schools when it came to technology integration.
CEP 820 Teaching Students Online
Summer 2015 - Anne Heintz
Online classes are a hot commodity in this day and age and it is important as teachers to understand what the most effective ways are to teach students online. In this course, we built websites that could potentially serve us in our own classrooms. You could build a class completely on-line or you could build a blended class, including instruction both on-line and in the classroom. At the end of the course, we had built courses that included 2-3 lessons for a unit along with aspects important to online classrooms such as online expectations, discussion boards, and other critical information.
ED 870 Capstone
Fall 2015 - Matt Koehler
In this course, we prepare an online portfolio representing the work we completed while earning our Masters degree at Michigan State University. This portfolio includes essays surrounding our goals, a showcase of the work we completed and a look into our experience as teachers and students. It is my hope that in the future, employers interested in hiring me as an educator can use this portfolio to gain insight into who I am as a teacher. Creating this portfolio gave me the opportunity to reflect on what I learned in the year and a half I spent completing my Masters.
Fall 2009 & Spring 2010 - Jim Garrett
These courses were taken while I was student teaching, TE 802 was in the Fall, TE 804 was in the Spring. Reflections & Inquiry in Teaching Practice focused on teaching practices that were specific to teaching secondary social studies. For example, making sure we bring sources into the classroom that are reliable and unbiased. In a classroom filled with interns currently teaching social studies, we had the ability to bounce ideas off of each other and discuss best practices.
TE 803 Professional Roles & Teaching Practice II
Fall 2009 - Annie Fritzen
In this course, we spent time talking about different teaching practices. We were able to share our experiences from our placements and get feedback on those experiences. We also read a novel called, "Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56" which offered an interesting perspective into a difficult classroom. This gave us as student teachers a great outlook into different philosophies of teaching.
ED 800 Educational Inquiry
Fall 2014 - Steven Weiland
This class focused on many different aspects of teaching. Reading and assignments surrounded the use of different types of inquiry to critique and develop teaching practices. We played particular attention to John Dewey's ideas regarding inquiry, read Vivien Paley's "The Girl With the Brown Crayon", and watched The Whale Rider. All of these resources were used to discuss different practices of teacher inquiry.
CEP 818 Creativity in Teaching & Learning
Fall 2014 - Punya Mishra & Rohit Mehta
The course of the semester was spent learning about the different tools of creativity: Perceiving, Patterning, Abstracting, Embodied Thinking, Modeling, Play, and Synthesizing. With each new tool we learned we created something using that particular tool. What we created was surrounding the topic of our choice, a unit or lesson we would teach in our own classroom. At the end of the course, we wrote a White Paper (a guide for a particular topic) outlining what we had learned and then created an elevator pitch, suggesting the way we use the tools of creativity in our own classrooms.
TE 846 Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners
Spring 2015 - Pat Edwards
It is common knowledge that not all of our students are at the same reading level. It is important that we understand what some of those differences look like in our students and understand how to address those differences. That is what was covered in TE 846. We completed a case study on one of our own students and got the opportunity to create a lesson plan to help achieve the goal we set for them. This allowed us to practice different literacy strategies in a real situation.
EAD 830 Issues in Urban Education: Racial Achievement Gap
Spring 2015 - Christopher Dunbar
The racial achievement gap in education is one of the biggest problems facing education today. Issues in Urban Education: Racial Achievement Gap sought to educate us on the history of the achievement gap, what many scholars were saying regarding the achievement gap, as well as some of the potential solutions. In the end, we wrote a paper outlining what we saw as the most important problem impacting the achievement gap and proposed solutions we felt educators and administrators could attempt to use to close the gap. The racial achievement gap is something I have experienced in the classroom which made this course especially meaningful.
CEP 815 Technology & Leadership
Summer 2015 - Benjamin Gleason & Sarah Keenan
Technology for technology's sake. That is many teacher's biggest fear. It is important for schools to know how to effectively integrate technology into the classroom. The goal of this course was to highlight different aspects of technology in education so that as students, we felt capable of becoming leaders in our own schools when it came to technology integration.
CEP 820 Teaching Students Online
Summer 2015 - Anne Heintz
Online classes are a hot commodity in this day and age and it is important as teachers to understand what the most effective ways are to teach students online. In this course, we built websites that could potentially serve us in our own classrooms. You could build a class completely on-line or you could build a blended class, including instruction both on-line and in the classroom. At the end of the course, we had built courses that included 2-3 lessons for a unit along with aspects important to online classrooms such as online expectations, discussion boards, and other critical information.
ED 870 Capstone
Fall 2015 - Matt Koehler
In this course, we prepare an online portfolio representing the work we completed while earning our Masters degree at Michigan State University. This portfolio includes essays surrounding our goals, a showcase of the work we completed and a look into our experience as teachers and students. It is my hope that in the future, employers interested in hiring me as an educator can use this portfolio to gain insight into who I am as a teacher. Creating this portfolio gave me the opportunity to reflect on what I learned in the year and a half I spent completing my Masters.