TE 802
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Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice I
Instructor: Dr. Christina Berchini This course was at the beginning of my graduate education, and started while I was student teaching. Throughout this course, I was able to learn about different types of research and inquiry and apply new concepts gleaned from said research and inquiry to my classroom. I was also able to hear about other students' experiences within their own student teaching placement. This class also included practicing teaching literacy lessons, |
TE 803
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Professional Roles and Teaching Practice II
Instructor: Dr. Aaron Zimmerman This course was also during my student teaching year. In this class, there was a lot of discussion generated about field placements and stories from the field. We were able to discuss experiences with the rest of the cohort while learning about best practices and how to improve. During this course, classroom management was discussed at length. |
TE 804
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Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice II
Instructor: Dr. Christina Berchini This course ended with the culmination of my student teaching. For the final project, we researched some aspect of English learning (writing, reading, etc.) and experimented with new texts and different technologies. The research was presented in an exhibition that included mentor teachers, teaching assistants, and other student teachers. This course helped me implement new ideas into my teaching, and gave me a safe space to try things I was not necessarily comfortable with. |
ED 800
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Concepts of Educational Inquiry
Instructors: Dr. Steven Weiland and Nathan Clason This course showed me how many different types of inquiry exist in education. While I learned about several different types, by the end of the course I was convinced that teacher research is the most effective. Teachers know the most about what it's like to be a teacher, are able to research things that would affect them directly, and they can share their findings directly with colleagues, or attempt to publish their results for teachers to read world wide, depending. I read many examples of teacher inquiry, including The Girl with the Purple Crayon, that provided an in depth look at Vivian Paley's inquiry into her own classroom and teaching. |
KIN 854
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Legal and Administrative Issues for Administrators and Coaches
Instructor: Rick Atkinson This course gave a brief overview of some of the legal issues that administrators and coaches may face during their careers. These issues include (but are not limited to) liability, negligence, waivers, sexual harassment rules, and the following of many different pieces of the Civil Rights Act. It was an extremely informative course that provided many things that could be useful for coaches in the future. It also provided some real life examples that helped with understanding the legal jargon. |
TE 846
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Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners
Instructor: Katie Cook This course required students to perform case studies on students in order to learn and practice new ways to assist with struggling literacy learners. I learned many things from my case study, and many of those things surprised me. I learned not to make assumptions about my students; the student I picked was a phenomenal reader, capable of making connections throughout the text and to other pieces of text, and I assumed he was not a great reader based on his English grades. This course also provided me with many ideas on how to teach writing, reading, and vocabulary for instance in different ways that may reach more of my students at a time. |
EAD 822
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Engaging Diverse Students and Families
Instructor: Dr. Terah Vizant Chambers This course focused around the many different types of diverse students teachers see in their classrooms everyday. The course was broken up into different units, which essentially focused around different types of minorities. We looked at research concerning African American students (particularly males), Asian American students, Latino students, and Indigenous students. There is much research that shows that we are not providing our minority students with the type of schooling and curriculum that they need to be successful. This class also challenged students to look at their own racial identity and how that affects their teaching and their students within the classroom. |
KIN 856
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Physical Bases of Coaching
Instructor: Dr. Tony Moreno This course focused on the physical aspects of coaching and sports in general. We learned how to perform a movement analysis on different muscle groups in order to grasp how the body is working together to perform different athletic movements. We were also asked to analyze different movements from a sport of our choice in order to understand it from an injury prevention perspective. The course helped me to realize different training routines and regimens may be better for some sports over others, and that it is very important to be aware of what each different sport requires the body to do during playing time. |
ED 870
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Capstone Seminar
Instructors: Dr. Matthew Koehler, Sarah Keenan-Lechel, Spencer Greenhalgh, and Brittany Dillman This course allowed me to the opportunity to reflect over my graduate coursework and synthesize the learning experiences I have had throughout my time in the program. It also helped me create an online portfolio that highlights all graduate coursework as well as how I plan to move forward. The portfolio also explains how the MAED program has changed my thinking, and how I plan to use what I've learned in the future. |
KIN 855
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Psychosocial Bases of Coaching
Instructor: Dr. Andy Driska This course focused on the mental aspect of playing a sport, from motivation and participation to the attitudes of bench-warmers and starters. This course also gave a lot of attention to the coach-athlete relationship, and the effects of this on an athlete's motivation. In this class, we were asked to observe and evaluate another coach's practice and analyze the results. This project helped me recognize many different coaching behaviors and observe how this can mentally affect a team, either in a positive or negative way. |