The following is my annotated transcript. In this transcript, you will see the courses that I completed in order to earn my Masters of Arts in Education. Each course listed includes the semester that the course was taken, who taught the course, the grade acquired in the class, and a brief description of the course itself. The course work is broken down into categories showing which courses were required, elective, or focused on my science and mathematics concentration.
--Required Courses--
ED 800- Education Inquiry
Instructor: Dr. Steven Weiland
Spring 2013, 4.0
Spring 2013, 4.0
This course is the introductory course to the MAED program. In this course, I learned about various aspects of educational inquiry. I studied the ideas of John Dewey to learn about the history of inquiry. I read Vivian Paley's Girl With the Brown Crayon to see her perspective of inquiry and observation. I watched the movie "Whale Rider" to view ethnographic inquiry. I wrote about Eleanor Roosevelt's life to understand biographical inquiry and how education can come from experiences outside of traditional schooling. (This paper is linked with the picture on the left.)Finally, I studied technology's role in inquiry by assessing my personal inquiry of the internet.
CEP 800- Psychology of Learning in Schools and Other Settings
Instructor: D. Henriksen, L. Wolf, A. Wilcken
Summer 2012, 4.0
Summer 2012, 4.0
In this course, we focused on the fact that students and people can learn from multiple places such as school, their community, their home and even at work. This means that students can bring all of the ideas that they have learned from outside sources into your own classroom. We learned that it is important to assess a student's prior knowledge to be able to identify the information that the student is bringing into your classroom especially since students can gain both correct and incorrect information from outside sources. For a project, I used an interview setting to assess one of my student's prior knowledge of condensation. A link to the interview is linked with the picture on the left.
ED 870- Capstone Seminar
Instructor: Dr. Matthew J. Koehler
Fall 2013
Fall 2013
This course is the capstone course of my MAED program. This course has asked me to look back at my master's career and reflect on what I've learned and the courses I took. As a result, I have created the online portfolio that you are currently reading right now. Some of the things that are in this portfolio are a list of courses I have taken, a showcase of my work from my master's program, a reflection of my original goals going into my masters as well as a review of my expectations after my master's program has been completed.
--Elective Courses--
TE 803- Professional Roles and Teaching Practices II
Instructor: M. Low
Spring 2009, 4.0
Spring 2009, 4.0
This course was taken during my internship year at Michigan State University. This course focused on students and the outside sources that affect them such as their families and communities. This course made me realize that a student's behavior may not be a direct result from the classroom itself, but outside influences that come into the classroom.
TE 804- Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice II
Instructor: Gail Richmond
Spring 2009, 3.5
Spring 2009, 3.5
This course was also taken during my internship year at Michigan State University. This course was directly tied to teaching secondary science. In this semester, we focused on collecting data of our students, analyzing that data, and interpreting it . Overall we focused on the following forms of data collection: pre-assessments, post-assessments and formative assessments during a lesson. We were encouraged to try to use different kinds of formative assessments especially ones that could be used during the inquiry process.
TE 846- Accommodating Differences in Learners
Instructor: Katie Cook
Summer 2013, 4.0
Summer 2013, 4.0
This course focused on reading and writing of all learners. In this course, we studied various instructional techniques to assist students in reading and writing. We also studied various techniques to analyze the literacy of each student. After learning these techniques, we were asked to choose a student to work with three times and we had to test their literacy skills after lessons with the student. In particular, I focused on a student who just graduated high school and I gave him college-level science articles to assess his readiness for college in terms of his literacy skills.
EAD 824 - Leading Teacher Learning
Instructor: Dr. Nancy Colflesh
Fall 2013
Fall 2013
It has come to the attention of the education community that through collaborative learning, teachers can enhance their teaching practices in their classroom and therefore, can increase student achievement. This course offers various techniques and tools to allow faculty leaders, future faculty leaders and administration to support this collaborative learning between teachers. This course also clarified how adults learn and how it is the similar and/or different to how our students learn. Throughout the course, we were asked to report our thoughts on the new tools that we learned, reflect on our own leadership within their schools, reflect on the community of our school, and create a year-long plan for teacher learning at our school.
--Science and Mathematics Education Concentration--
TE 831- Teaching Subject Matter with Technology
Instructor: Erica Hamilton
Fall 2012, 4.0
Fall 2012, 4.0
The first part of this class focused on the TPACK theory. This theory states that in order for technology to be effective within the classroom, it must carefully interlink with a teacher’s pedagogy or teaching practices/beliefs as well as the content of the classroom. The T in TPACK stands for technology. P stands for pedagogy. C stands for content and K stands for knowledge.
In the second part of this class, I was able to apply many different forms of technology in my classroom. I was introduced to exploring pinterest for lesson ideas or classroom decoration ideas. I was able to create a digital story on electromagnetic waves ( linked with the picture on the left) using Microsoft's Movie Maker. I used Socrative to question my students and received quick feedback about their understanding of the topic taught. I also learned how to use popplet to create online mind maps either for the classroom or in curriculum planning. |
TE 861A- Teaching Science Understanding
Instructor: Dr. Michelle Williams
Spring 2013, 4.0
Spring 2013, 4.0
This course had two parts to the course. The first part was studying the new science reforms in teaching science for conceptual understanding. In order to study this, we focused on National Research Council's Framework for K-12 Science Education and National Research Council's How Students Learn articles. It was emphasized in class that thoroughly understanding these reforms and why they are important will allow us to successfully use them within our classrooms to enhance the science concepts that are taught.
The second part of the course focused on formative assessments and using the formative assessments to monitor students' progress while teaching a concept as well as giving the students' feedback for them to use to possibly change incorrect assumptions or thoughts. My powerpoint that shows my findings from my formative assessment analysis is linked to the picture on the left. |
TE 861C- Action Research in a K-12 Science or Mathematics Classroom
Instructor: Dawnmarie Ezzo
Summer 2013, 4.0
Summer 2013, 4.0
This course focused on how to create an action research project as well as creating one for our classroom. The class walked us through how to decide on a topic of research, how to find a possible remediation for that topic, background research to support the remediation, background information on the group of students that are completing the research, ways to collect data from your classroom and how to analyze this data.
After studying these parts of an action research project, we created an action research plan of our own. I decided to focus on the concepts of condensation and using Predict, Observe, Explain activities to remediate problems associated with learning this concept. A link to my action research plan is to the left. |