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TE 842
Elementary Reading Assessment and Evaluation
Instructor: Annie Whitlock
Grade - 4.0
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TE 849
CEP 800
ED 800
TE 831
TE 836
CEP 883
Methods and Materials for Teaching Children's and Adolescent Literature
Instructor: Dr. Laura Apol
Grade- 4.0
Psychology of Learning in School & Other Settings
Instructor: Danah Henriksen
Grade - 4.0
Teaching Subject Matter with Technology
Instructor: Erica Hamilton
Grade - 4.0
Awards & Classics of Children’s Literature
Instructor: Dr. Laura Apol
Grade - 4.0
Psychology of Classroom Discipline
Instructor: Dr. Vicky Mousouli
Grade - 4.0
TE842 focused on the teaching and learning of reading at the elementary school level. This course helped me to develop (further) expertise in the teaching of reading at the elementary school level. Our final project required us to analyze how we taught and to develop a lesson to teach it more effectively. My focus project and its accompanying Powerpoint presentation can be seen here and here.
TE 849 took an in-depth look into children's and adolescent literature. Many of our assignments had us reading and analyzing children's picture books, multi-cultural literature, and even comparing the differences between a story in its book, comic book, and movie form. We read children's books from all genres, many of which I hadn't thought about in twenty years, and asked discussed about how to involve children in literature. My Literature Position paper about what I learned throughout this course can be found here.
This course acquainted me with several major psychological perspectives for appreciating learning that goes on in school and other settings. We also connected theories of learning to our own experiences as learners. Throughout this course, we were required to become proficient with several technologies that we could use in our classroom and create projects using them - a podcast using Audacity, a video project that demostrated a psychological perspective being used in the classroom, and we had to rewrite a lesson plan by integrating a new technology with a psychological perspective of our choice, and implement it in the classroom. My final project can be found here.
This course focused on learning about the different educational inquiry processes, philosophies of teaching and learning, and the importance of self-reflection. Throughout this course, I learned about education from several different perspectives - philosophical approaches to teaching, classroom-based inquiry, theories of the mind, intelligence and our curriculum, ethnographic "participant observation", and biography and history focused on the learning done outside of schools. We had to write six papers throughout the term. Here, here, and here are three of the essays, and here and here is the instructor's feedback for my work.
TE 831 provided a way of thinking about how to integrate technology in school subject matter and to offer tools for how to do it. It did an excellent job of providing authentic learning experiences with using educational technology to teach subject matter. I learned about so many different educational technological tools that I had never existed, and this course definitely helped me learn how to integrate technology into my lesson plans, as opposed to just adding in technology as an afterthought. We had numerous assignments that required us to integrate technology into our classes. Here is my repurposed lesson plan where I had to create a lesson by thinking of which Technology, Pedagogy, Content I wanted to use.
This course began with us learning about different awards for children's literature, and then discussing whether they were appropriate and fair. The second part of the course examined the concept of a classic in children's literature and about the issues with using classics in the classroom, and about whether it's effective for us to continue introducing our students to them. Here is my essay about the characters from Little Women, and how - even though it was written over one hundred years ago - the issues that these girls face are ones that today's children could still relate to.
We learned about how the setup of the classroom can affect students' attitudes and behaviors, as well as many other factors which teachers can control in regards to maintaining our classroom discipline.
Summer 2012
Fall 2012
Spring 2013
Summer 2013
TE 846
Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners
Instructor: Katie Cook
Grade - 4.0
This course introduced me to the developmental processes, instructional practices, and assessment principles that contribute to effective learning of reading and writing. The teaching methods for accommodating the different needs of individual literacy learners was stressed throughout this course, and culiminated in a final project where I had assess a struggling student, and develop and implement a lesson plan to help her improve at reading. My project can be seen here.
Fall 2013
CEP 802
Developing Positive Attitudes toward Learning
Instructor: Dr. Evelyn Oka
We learned how to motivate students in the classrooms in terms of psychological theories, and we worked on individual case studies about students who didn't seem motivated to learn. For our final project, we had to choose one of our students who exhibited behavioral issues within the classroom and then design a plan to help increase their motivation to learn.
ED 870
Capstone
Instructor: Matthew Koehler
Currently, we are creating a website where we can showcase the work which we have accomplished during our studies for our MAED. For an example of my work, click here.
Evaluation Inquiry
Instructor: Steven Weiland
Grade - 4.0
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