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TE 501: Internship in Teaching Diverse
Learners I
Instructor: S. Labadie
This course was taken during my year-long internship. It was intended to help me experience teaching in a diverse learning environment to students with varied learning needs. Here, I learned to adjust the content of the learning goals to help connect to my learners.
TE 801: Professional Roles & Teaching Practice I
Instructor: Dr. J. Nurnberger-Haag
TE 801 was held in conjunction with my year-long internship. It was designed for me to establish myself within the community of my placement school by attempting to connect with and serve the culture of the students and their families. This course provided the opportunity for me to also collaborate with my colleagues and community leaders as I participated in presentations open to the surrounding community.
Fall 2011
TE 802: Reflection & Inquiry on Teaching Practice I
Instructor: C. Rosaean
In this course, there was a heavy focus on different methods of learning and teaching. During my year-long internship, I spent some time analyzing valid research and was given the opportunity to use my findings and create my own intentional literacy lessons and activities for my students. Assessing and reflecting the effectiveness of the lessons was a major focus.
Spring 2012
TE 502: Internship in Teaching Diverse Learners II
Instructor: S. Labadie
As part of the internship program, TE 502 continued to prepare me for diverse students at my school placement. This course strongly emphasized independent teaching while also continuing to connect with the culture and surrounding community of the students and families that I served. Classroom culture was also a major focus as I learned of its importance while teaching academic knowledge and skills.
TE 803: Professional Roles & Teaching Practice II
Instructor: Dr. C. Kaiser
TE 803 was another requirement during my internship. This course emphasized teaching a social studies unit while thinking about my diverse students with varied learning needs. Reflection and assessing both individually and collaboratively with my colleagues of how our students met the learning goals was also a heavy focus.
TE 804: Reflection & Inquiry on Teaching Practice II
Instructor: H. Alhokayem
TE 804 was another part of my year-long internship program. In this course, I focused on creating a science unit for my students that included accommodations for students in need as well as incorporate my best planning and teaching practices. For this course, I developed a unit on the human body and its systems. I were fortunate to bring in pig hearts for our dissection investigation. Analyzing assessments was a crucial component to monitor student learning.
Fall 2014 - Fall 2015
CEP 811: Adapting Technology to Education
Instructor: M. White
This course introduced me to thinking about applying innovative technology into the classroom to support instruction. It was enlightening to think about ways to re-purpose materials to fit the needs of the classroom and join the "maker movement". As I thought about how to re-purposed the world around me, I was able to design many learning experiences. I was also exposed to many different learning theories such as Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK). There was a heavy focus on beginning to network these experiences.
CEP 800: Learning in School & Other Settings
Instructors: D. Campbell, C. Roseth
The main focus of this course was to learn about and consider different learning theories such as behavior, cognitive, and social learning theories when designing lesson plans. Throughout the course, I completed various projects that helped me take note of many ideas and theories about the way my students learn inside and outside of the classroom. This course also allowed me to think about the technological tools I could use to adapt to my learners with various learning needs.
CEP 812: Applying Educational Technology to Issues of Practice
Instructors: C. Gallagher, S. Sweeney
CEP 812 gave me the opportunity to think about ways I could use a variety of technological tools to help address educational issues or problems in the classroom. Collectively with my peers, we thought of a wicked problem of practice that we could address. We chose the problem of rethinking what it means to teach, and reinvent everything about teaching. Our research was intended to find a solution on how to prepare people to be successful in the 21st century classroom. Further, we were able to reflect on how to leverage technology with passion and curiosity to further support our students' learning.
Summer - Fall 2016
CEP 810: Teaching for Understanding with Technology
Instructors: R. Houtman, E. Stone
In this course I was enlightened about how technology is not necessarily designed for the classroom, and how educators need to be creative as they re-purpose the technological tools that are already available for use. In relevance to this idea, my networked learning project was a great reminder of how learning can be student-centered even with the already available tools of YouTube and online help forums. As the student of this project, I had full control of what I wanted to learn, how I wanted to learn it, and what tools helped me learn the task the best. From this project I learned how this practice could apply to my own students by giving them the same freedom to take control of their learning on practically any topic!
Summer - Fall 2017
CEP 820: Teaching Students Online
Instructors: A. Heintz, C. Richardson
This course allowed me to closely examine ways to use technology to support the learning needs of my students. As I designed my very own online course for my students, I learned about and incorporated ways that my students could collaborate and communicate their ideas to a network of peers. I learned about various teaching methodologies and made important pedagogical decisions to accommodate my students. I also made sure to include the necessary design components of a successful and efficient online learning environment.
CEP 815: Technology and Leadership
Instructors: R. Mehta, K. Shack
In Technology and Leadership, I began thinking about a leadership role specifically in managing relationships between technology, teaching, and learning. The course informed me about the various types of leaders and allowed me to practice thinking like a leader involving real-world scenarios with stakeholders and their different perspectives on educational technology. One of my finished products of the course was the creation of a vision statement as well as a professional development session that I could present to any stakeholder involved in our current practice that would enlighten and offer solutions to a thorny issue involving educational technology.
CEP 822: Approaches to Educational Research
Instructors: C. Cheng, M. Lei, J. Westdal, E. Wong
This course taught me to deeply analyze and interpret educational research. By researching with a learned criteria in mind, I was able to determine what high quality research looked like and what it entailed. I was given the task of calculating different elements such as the mean, the correlation, and the standard deviations within data sets. My finished product was a research essay on a research question of my choice. Using the information I learned about quality research, I was able to apply it to my own efforts of answering my research question.
CEP 807: Capstone in Educational Technology
Instructors: B. Dillman, S. Greenhalgh, S. Keenan-Lechel, Dr. M. Koehler
Through this course I was able to reflect upon my experiences in the Masters of Educational Technology program and share them through an online portfolio for viewers such as my fellow peers, my co-workers, potential future employers, and any outside viewers. Within my portfolio you'll find information such as my background information, how I have developed and changed my goals and thinking throughout the program, some of the work I've completed, the courses I've taken, and more. This course gave me the opportunity to work with my fellow classmates by helping each other improve our work as we offered intentional feedback and collaboration.