Spring 2012
TE 803: Professional Roles and Teaching Practice II
Instructor: Justin Bruner
TE 804: Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice II
Instructor: Dr. Chris Kaiser
Instructor: Justin Bruner
TE 804: Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice II
Instructor: Dr. Chris Kaiser
- Michigan State requires students to complete a yearlong internship under the guidance of a mentor teacher. While we complete the internship, we remain connected to MSU through two courses that met on several Fridays throughout the school year. My internship year was a very emotional time for me due to personal concerns, as well as some difficulties at my placement. In a state of being overwhelmed, I didn’t show up for class one day. That evening I had emails from Chris and Justin saying that we needed to all have a meeting together and discuss what was happening in my placement and how I could move forward. That very next week we met and their reassurance and support is a good part of the reason I am still a teacher today. One other key lesson that I learned is the importance of collaboration. Most of my memories of both of these courses involve sitting in a big circle of interns and instructor, reflecting on our experiences in the classroom and working together to brainstorm ways to improve our teaching.
Fall 2016
CEP 810: Teaching for Understanding with Technology
Instructor: Ron Houtman
CEP 811: Adapting Innovative Technologies to Education
Instructors: Stacey Schuh and Melissa White
Instructor: Ron Houtman
- This course focused on encouraging us to identify how we learn and sources of our learning. It served as a thorough introduction to educational technology and as a launching point for several important concepts that would carry through the Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) program. Here I was the first introduced to the TPACK Framework (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) and the importance of choosing the correct tool to use with an instructional technique in a content area. We also began the process of reflecting on and blogging about our learning experiences and assignments.
CEP 811: Adapting Innovative Technologies to Education
Instructors: Stacey Schuh and Melissa White
- In CEP 811 I learned all about what Maker Culture is and how we can re-imagine technology. We were asked to purchase a maker kit for use in this course and used it to create innovative, technology-based lesson plans. Additionally, we thought extensively about how we can re-make our classrooms to improve student learning and engagement using a computer aided design program called SketchUp. This course was instrumental in expanding my views on what is, and isn’t, educational technology.
Spring 2017
CEP 812: Applying Educational Technology to Issues of Pedagogy
Instructor: Rachelle Galang and Alison Keller
CEP 820: Teaching Students Online
Instructor: Anne Heintz and Carmen Richardson
Instructor: Rachelle Galang and Alison Keller
- This course focused on the issue of Wicked Problems, or a problem whose solution only creates more problems. We were allowed to choose the problem and, since I was currently taking a course about the same topic, I chose the problem of online learning. Three other educators and I collaborated through GoogleDocs and video messaging to come up with a plan for investigating this issue, conducting research, and attempting to pose solutions to the problem. These efforts resulted in a website that I have shared in my Showcase.
CEP 820: Teaching Students Online
Instructor: Anne Heintz and Carmen Richardson
- In CEP 820 I focused on the current state of online learning. The course was an excellent balance of reading and reflecting on literature related to online learning and the ISTE standards, and creating an module using a Learning Management System. For my own project I used weebly to create a blended learning unit with three lessons about the geography of Latin America. This allowed my to use my own knowledge surrounding Geographic Information Systems and GoogleApps to build a city on a third party platform that could actually work in my classroom. While current standards have shifted slightly, the coursework prepared me to create more online or blended learning opportunities for my students.
Summer 2017
CEP 800: Psychology of Learning in School and Other Settings
Instructor: Dr. Cary Roseth
CEP 815: Technology and Leadership
Instructor: Rohit Mehta and Kyle Shack
CEP 822: Approaches to Educational Research
Instructor: Ming Lei
Instructor: Dr. Cary Roseth
- CEP 800 ended up being one of my most enjoyable courses. Early in my undergraduate career, I took TE150 about the basics of educational psychology. This graduate level course hearkened back to the lessons of TE 150, but built upon everything we have witnessed in the classroom. Many teachers I have met love to share their in-classroom experiences and gain insight from other instructors. This course gave us that opportunity but with more than just other teachers. There were professionals from a variety of career pathways and Pavlov, Piaget, Bandura and all of their friends have lessons to teach us all.
CEP 815: Technology and Leadership
Instructor: Rohit Mehta and Kyle Shack
- Educational leadership was not an area I foresaw myself pursuing, but this course quickly piqued my curiosity. We learned about how leadership can be defined and the traits of leaders. What I especially enjoyed about this course was the variety of tasks that we were asked to complete- everything from more formal technological vision summaries, to writing tweets in different leadership styles, to creating a professional development offering. It opened my eyes to the ways that one can be a leader in a school setting and how to create and inspire change.
CEP 822: Approaches to Educational Research
Instructor: Ming Lei
- CEP 822 was a deep dive down the rabbit hole for many practice-based teachers. While I have never discounted research and data-based solutions in my own classroom, this level of creating our own educational research, and investigating a topic of our own choosing was unfamiliar. For the research review, I chose to investigate best practices for teaching content-area vocabulary to English Language Learners. The insight I gained was invaluable and I have been able to apply some of the proven techniques I learned within my classroom.
Fall 2017
CEP 807: Capstone in Educational Technology
Instructors: Brittany Dillman, Spencer Greenhalgh, Sarah Keenan-Lechel, and Dr. Matthew Koehler
Instructors: Brittany Dillman, Spencer Greenhalgh, Sarah Keenan-Lechel, and Dr. Matthew Koehler
- The portfolio you are currently viewing is the culmination of the MAET graduate degree. From the outset of this course, I compiled my assignments, reflected upon each work, and then formulated an overall story of my progress throughout this educational journey. It is only fitting that the final project for educational technology would be to create a website! At the end of this course we presented our final version in a portfolio exhibition.