Jenna's Annotated Transcript
Fall 2012
ED 800: Educational Inquiry
Instructor: Steven Weiland
This course was an introduction into the Master’s program at Michigan State Univeristy. I learned about the history of education in America and how these beginning roots helped form the educational system we have today. In each module, I read, researched, and wrote about different historical figures in education and their educational philosophies. After learning about different styles of teaching and learning, I discovered that I have a role to play in the future of education. I was able to move through this course at my own pace while also being able to interact with my fellow classmate and professor every step of the way. By learning from the knowledge I gained about education's history, I am able to improve the future.
Spring 2013
TE 846: Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners
Instructor: Erin Wibbens
Throughout this course, I worked with a second grader at my school, observing his literacy and learning skills. After teaching and assessing this student, I completed an extensive case study about my observations and the skills I thought the child needed to improve. This case study included lesson plans, assessments, looking into the child’s background, and history. All of these details helped me make an educated recommendation about the child’s future in learning.
TE 861 A: Teaching Science for Understanding Spring
Instructor: Michelle Williams
For this course, the class interacted with different ways of evaluating students in science. As we worked through the class, we referred back to, and used, the Next Generation Science Standards. After learning about these standards I worked to implement them into my lesson and unit plans. I created new units with these standards in mind and I refined my old units and lessons. This class helped aid me in understand that understanding goes beyond the classroom and is an important piece of every child’s development.
Summer 2013
TE 842: Elementary Reading Assessment and Instruction
Instructor: Tanya Wright
This course was an intensive training course that taught me to use reading assessments in beneficial ways in and out of my classroom. I analyzed case studies and researched the best ways to use reading assessments in my day-to-day teaching. I revisited the reality that each student I teach learns and thinks differently. This class helped me take this knowledge and put it to use in my reading assessment and instuction. Throughout this class I learned and used different types of assessments to help me better help my students as they progress in their reading and communication skills.
CEP 883: Psychology of Classroom Discipline
Instructors: Alicia Lynn Fedewa, V. Mousouli, E. Oka
CEP 833 was a vigorous 6-week summer course which is designed to help teachers improve classroom management styles and strategies. Throughout this course, the class review "best practices" in classroom management. I focused and adjusted my classroom management styles based on current research. These adjustments and the "re- focus" on research-based strategies helped improve the learning environment for all my students. This class also helped me form better relationships with my students' parents. This class ultimately helped me form a productive and peaceful classroom community.
Fall 2013
TE 861 B: Inquiry, Nature of Science and Science Teaching
Instructor: Amelia Gotwals
This course was a survey of current science teaching methods. I interacted with Next Generation Science Standards, National Science Education Standards, and Benchmark standards. By engaging with these and other methods and standards, I am now able to help my students clear up misconceptions they have in the science world, learn the process of investigation, aid them in exploring the natural world, and teach scientific concepts. To end this course, I created a science unit that addressed scientific misconceptions and focused on utilizing scientific inquiry and the nature of science.
TE 831: Teaching School Subject Matter with Technology
Instructor: Erica Hamilton
TE 831 truly pushed me out of my comfort zone as an educator. Throughout the class, we were required to use different types of technology to better our day-to-day lesson plans. I learned how to create a podcast, educational movies, Glogster, and Wordle. I created and added these things into my existing lesson plans. This is important because the students that I will be teaching are growing up in a world filled with technology and it is my job to teach them how to use different types of technology properly in the classroom setting.
Spring 2014
CEP 800: Psychology of Learning in School and Other Settings
Instructors: Danah Henriksen, Elizabeth Boltz
Throughout CEP 800, I was required to examine the different ways that students interpret information and how they remember and understand details. The class began with an audio project where I interviewed several students in my class about a topic we had been learning. I asked open-ended questions and each student gave me different answers. In conclusion, this project and class helped me realize how students understand subjects taught in school differently and how teaching in different styles can help all students remember and comprehend what they learn.
TE 836: Awards and Classics of Children’s Literature
Instructor: Laura Apol
Throughout this literature course we studied different awards associated with children’s’ literature. We studied the Newbery and Caldecott Awards and then took our knowledge and applied it to a classic novel. We discussed whether Barrie’s novel Peter Pan is a classic and if it can or has withstood the "test of time." This was a rigorous course that required a lot of reading and research. In the end, my discussion groups and final papers reflected my understanding that each teacher, or individual, has a different opinion about what makes a piece of literature a classic. After taking this course, I feel confident that my knowledge about “living books” has increased and I will only use these types of books in my classroom.
Summer 2014
ED 870: Capstone
Instructors: Matthew Koehler, Joshua Rosenberg, Spencer Greenhaigh, Brittany Dillman
Throughout this course I interacted with online portfolio resources. I thought deeply about the classes I have taken over my Master's program and was challenged to create an online portfolio and create a place to showcase myself as an educator. I worked with my classmates to create, re-create, and present this online portfolio. This course sythesised my master's program and was a great way to end the master's program.
ED 800: Educational Inquiry
Instructor: Steven Weiland
This course was an introduction into the Master’s program at Michigan State Univeristy. I learned about the history of education in America and how these beginning roots helped form the educational system we have today. In each module, I read, researched, and wrote about different historical figures in education and their educational philosophies. After learning about different styles of teaching and learning, I discovered that I have a role to play in the future of education. I was able to move through this course at my own pace while also being able to interact with my fellow classmate and professor every step of the way. By learning from the knowledge I gained about education's history, I am able to improve the future.
Spring 2013
TE 846: Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners
Instructor: Erin Wibbens
Throughout this course, I worked with a second grader at my school, observing his literacy and learning skills. After teaching and assessing this student, I completed an extensive case study about my observations and the skills I thought the child needed to improve. This case study included lesson plans, assessments, looking into the child’s background, and history. All of these details helped me make an educated recommendation about the child’s future in learning.
TE 861 A: Teaching Science for Understanding Spring
Instructor: Michelle Williams
For this course, the class interacted with different ways of evaluating students in science. As we worked through the class, we referred back to, and used, the Next Generation Science Standards. After learning about these standards I worked to implement them into my lesson and unit plans. I created new units with these standards in mind and I refined my old units and lessons. This class helped aid me in understand that understanding goes beyond the classroom and is an important piece of every child’s development.
Summer 2013
TE 842: Elementary Reading Assessment and Instruction
Instructor: Tanya Wright
This course was an intensive training course that taught me to use reading assessments in beneficial ways in and out of my classroom. I analyzed case studies and researched the best ways to use reading assessments in my day-to-day teaching. I revisited the reality that each student I teach learns and thinks differently. This class helped me take this knowledge and put it to use in my reading assessment and instuction. Throughout this class I learned and used different types of assessments to help me better help my students as they progress in their reading and communication skills.
CEP 883: Psychology of Classroom Discipline
Instructors: Alicia Lynn Fedewa, V. Mousouli, E. Oka
CEP 833 was a vigorous 6-week summer course which is designed to help teachers improve classroom management styles and strategies. Throughout this course, the class review "best practices" in classroom management. I focused and adjusted my classroom management styles based on current research. These adjustments and the "re- focus" on research-based strategies helped improve the learning environment for all my students. This class also helped me form better relationships with my students' parents. This class ultimately helped me form a productive and peaceful classroom community.
Fall 2013
TE 861 B: Inquiry, Nature of Science and Science Teaching
Instructor: Amelia Gotwals
This course was a survey of current science teaching methods. I interacted with Next Generation Science Standards, National Science Education Standards, and Benchmark standards. By engaging with these and other methods and standards, I am now able to help my students clear up misconceptions they have in the science world, learn the process of investigation, aid them in exploring the natural world, and teach scientific concepts. To end this course, I created a science unit that addressed scientific misconceptions and focused on utilizing scientific inquiry and the nature of science.
TE 831: Teaching School Subject Matter with Technology
Instructor: Erica Hamilton
TE 831 truly pushed me out of my comfort zone as an educator. Throughout the class, we were required to use different types of technology to better our day-to-day lesson plans. I learned how to create a podcast, educational movies, Glogster, and Wordle. I created and added these things into my existing lesson plans. This is important because the students that I will be teaching are growing up in a world filled with technology and it is my job to teach them how to use different types of technology properly in the classroom setting.
Spring 2014
CEP 800: Psychology of Learning in School and Other Settings
Instructors: Danah Henriksen, Elizabeth Boltz
Throughout CEP 800, I was required to examine the different ways that students interpret information and how they remember and understand details. The class began with an audio project where I interviewed several students in my class about a topic we had been learning. I asked open-ended questions and each student gave me different answers. In conclusion, this project and class helped me realize how students understand subjects taught in school differently and how teaching in different styles can help all students remember and comprehend what they learn.
TE 836: Awards and Classics of Children’s Literature
Instructor: Laura Apol
Throughout this literature course we studied different awards associated with children’s’ literature. We studied the Newbery and Caldecott Awards and then took our knowledge and applied it to a classic novel. We discussed whether Barrie’s novel Peter Pan is a classic and if it can or has withstood the "test of time." This was a rigorous course that required a lot of reading and research. In the end, my discussion groups and final papers reflected my understanding that each teacher, or individual, has a different opinion about what makes a piece of literature a classic. After taking this course, I feel confident that my knowledge about “living books” has increased and I will only use these types of books in my classroom.
Summer 2014
ED 870: Capstone
Instructors: Matthew Koehler, Joshua Rosenberg, Spencer Greenhaigh, Brittany Dillman
Throughout this course I interacted with online portfolio resources. I thought deeply about the classes I have taken over my Master's program and was challenged to create an online portfolio and create a place to showcase myself as an educator. I worked with my classmates to create, re-create, and present this online portfolio. This course sythesised my master's program and was a great way to end the master's program.