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Masters of Education Technology
Fall Semester 2014
TE 802: Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice I
Instructors: M. Crocco and E. Kenyon
In order to become better teachers, we must first reflect on the actions that we take. While going to professional developments and reading educational books are incredibly beneficial we must also take a moment to look specifically at what we are doing in the classroom. This course focused greatly on reflection and why we choose to do the practices we do in class. Some assignments that were completed for this course were creating a unit plan for our students, implementing said unit plan to our internship class, and then providing a detailed breakdown as to what we believe went well in our lessons, where we could specifically grow, and what might we change if done again. Overall it was a great course to make sure that we always take the time to look back at one's own teaching.
Spring Semester 2015
TE 803: Professional Roles and Teaching Practices
Instructor: Kristina Crandall
The focus of this class was specifically designed to connect what we were doing in our internship year. The purpose of this course was to help build our presence within our internship placements. For all students taking this course, this was the first year that we were placed inside of a high school classroom for an entire school year, Monday through Friday most weeks, and Monday through Thursday on others. In this course, we weren’t just grouped with the subjects that we taught. Rather, we worked with teachers from all the subjects typically seen in a high school. Within the classroom setting, we focused on how to work with the families in our communities as well as how to connect with and work with students in order to provide them with the best education possible.
TE 804: Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice II
Instructors: A. Hastings, and E. Kenyon
Similar in nature to what you will read for CEP 822, this course primarily centered around research within the classroom. One assignment focused on an action research question that we had to create. For my paper, I specifically focused on how I could incorporate more primary and secondary sources into my classroom and the benefits of doing so. Another assignment that I chose to focus on was how to increase student engagement within my classroom. For each assignment, we were asked to research ways in which we could effectively address the questions that we had.
Summer Semester 2018
CEP 810: Teaching for Understanding with Technolgy
Instructors: Alison Keller and Chris Sloan
In order to effectively implement technology into the classroom we focused on five areas of study to better prepare us; “theories of learning and understanding, essential mindsets for teaching with technology, professional learning networks, Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), and creative uses of technologies for learning. This class was a great introductory course to show all of the amazing technology that was available to us to use within the classroom. Every day we were given a quickfire challenge that focused on a new tech tool that we were all unfamiliar with and under time constraints, asked to create a product using that tool. In taking this course we were also introduced to TPACK and how when implementing any technology into our classroom, we think about it through the lens of TPACK.
CEP 811: Adapting Innovative Technologies to Education
Instructors: Alison Keller and Chris Sloan
While technology is constantly changing, this course had us focus on the tech that we may know and use regularly within our classrooms and find ways to adapt and change the way we may think of it. One main area of focus was that of the maker movement. The maker movement sought to break away from the traditional classroom style of teaching and allow students the opportunity to explore and create. This challenged us to step far outside of our comfort zones and create fun an innovative lessons that allowed for our students to learn through making.
CEP 812: Applying Educational Technology to Issues of Practice
Instructors: Alison Keller and Chris Sloam
Wicked problems, problems so large that they may seem impossible to tackle. No matter what line of work you are in, there will be wicked problems that present themselves. In this class we looked at how exactly we as educators can tackle these problems that may arise within our school districts. For my wicked problem, my counterpart and I focused on how exactly we as teachers can promote deeper learning with our classroom and make sure that all students are being challenged appropriately. We also focused on how exactly we could use our students interest in order to help support their learning.
Summer Semester 2019
CEP 800: Psychology of Learning in Schools and Other Settings
Instructors: Liz Owen Boltz and Sean Sweeny
The focus of this course was for us to learn about the many different learning theories that are out there today and address how they may present themselves within our classrooms. This course challenged you to look at items through multiple perspectives and ask yourself if you are meeting the needs of your students. As with all of the courses taken in the summer of 2019, there was also an emphasis on connecting everything we did in the classroom through the lens of TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge). Understand which tech tool is better suited for a specific learning theory and what exactly that would look like in the classroom.
CEP 815: Technology and Leadership
Instructors: Liz Owen Boltz and Sean Sweeny
Within the intention of helping us become better ed-tech leaders within our schools this course focused on a multitude of ways in order to achieve that role. Each week we were tasked with coming up with a new cross-share lesson for year one, year three, as well as teachers in the overseas cohort. Each week focused around a new topic in educational technology and it was on the year two cohort to come up with an hour presentation that was not only informative but also engaging for our audience. As a team, we need to meet daily in order to prep our lesson and establish roles. Playing off of each other's strengths we used our researching skills to come up with topics that were prevalent in the world of ed-tech. The time spent creating these cross-shares was incredibly worthwhile as it not only strengthened one's teamwork skills but leadership skills as well.
CEP 822: Approaches to Educational Research
Instructors: Liz Owen Boltz and Sean Sweeny
As it says in the title of the course, the main focus was that of research and the importance of it. Specifically for our class we were tasked with an assignment that lasted the entire second year which was “how do you spark creativity within your classroom”? As a class we were required to transcribe the audio clips that we had been given, group them, and categorize them. After we had done that as a team, we then were required to find outside research on our own that pertained to the prompt. The final piece to this class was to create a write-up of our findings which you can find mine in my showcase section under the graduate coursework tab.
Fall Semester 2019
CEP 807: Capstone in Educational Technology
Instructors: Matthew Koehler, Aric Gaunt, and Brooke Thomas
The final course in my masters program, here we focused on bringing everything together in one portfolio. Week by week we were instructed to add specific pages that highlighted who we are as teachers, as well as the vast amount of work that we have done for this program. In this course we utilized the tech tool Flipgrid in order to post reflections for that weeks work as well as connect with our classmates and provide them feedback on the work they created.
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