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MA Education (Online), Michigan State University
Fall 2013
EAD 801: Leadership and Organizational Development
Professor: BetsAnn Smith
This course supported me to study, analyze and reflect upon conceptions of leadership within the educational context. It emphasizes leadership as a range of formal and informal acts- as a form of mind and action- that any member of an organization may engage in. A series of books within this course explored the necessary steps to have change within an organization, be of adaptive nature and sustain a holding environment where disequilibrium will be of beneficial nature. Discussions and other group interactions are a key component of the course and apparent in each and every week.
EAD 800: Concepts of Educational Inquiry
Professor: Steve Weiland
The scheme of this course gave me the opportunity to define what is the best educational scheme to learn from this Master. Its form of self- paced learning gave me the appropriate freedom to define when and how I will succeed in this course. This course helped theorizing the essential domains of educational inquiry like philosophy and history of education, classroom-based or teacher research. Different approaches and theories upon teachers’ research were explored. For example, I have chosen, when talking about social sciences, ethnography as an appropriate means of educational inquiry. It is seen as one of the finest research methods. It is thought that greater and more valid inferences can be drawn from the repeated incidents that extended field exposure uniquely provides.
Spring 2014
EAD 866: Teaching in Postsecondary Education
Professor: John M. Dirkx
This course is designed to prepare teachers or to make them gain more expertise in teaching adult learners. It stood for me as a guide for teaching. Moreover, how I will structure a course, what my teaching objectives should cover, how I will effectively grade my students’ learning and many more have dominated the course content. Those subjects were fully covered together with something more- even of the same value with the answers on the above questions; the sharing of thoughts with people all around the globe. The literature built on this course around the main issues of teaching acted as a guide and the basis of learning.
EAD 860: The Concept of A Learning Society
Professor: Steve Weiland
This course is also given in a self- paced learning mode emphasizing the new digital society that we are all well aware of. I have found it as a very interesting and contemporary course since it is applicable to all graduates of Education. The different uses and conceptions on what consists of a leaning society dominate the theme of this course. This course challenge the student to define by himself/herself what is a learning society and under what scheme does it fit.
CEP 832: Teaching Children with Challenging Behavior
Professors: Dr. Vicky Mousouli and Dr. Evelyn Oka
This course is a highly specialized module for teachers working with tough children. All kinds of misbehaviors are explored and analyzed accordingly. Weekly discussions between my fellow students and myself helped us compare various case of challenging behaviors and how we combated them.
Summer 2014
EAD 861: Adult Learning
Professor: William Arnold
This course follows the structure of the above one. It intended to help me develop a better understanding of learning in adulthood and what is needed to teach effectively adults. What should be taken into account and to what extent differs from teaching children? Those are some of the main questions dominating this course.
CEP 883: Psychology Classroom Discipline
Professor: Dr. John Carlson and Dr. My Lien
CEP883 provided me with a six week topics which started with more theoretical grounds and towards the end made me think critically of what I have done so far in my teaching career and gave me room to improve myself as an educator. It launched me from theory to practice and from mere observance of my classroom teaching techniques to positive reflection. My favorite part of the course was the case studies of misbehaving children that we were to analyze within our groups.
TE 842: Elementary Teaching Assessment and Instruction
Professor: Marliese Peltier
As it can be assumed from the title of this course, it is very specific in terms of what it examines. Characteristics of effective reading assessment and instruction are explored as identified in research and described by respected reading researchers and practitioners. In each week different case studies of children are explored with different assessments (reading, writing) and the appropriate instructional strategies to improve their skills.
Fall 2014
EAD 882: Education in the Digital Age
Professor: Steve Weiland
I selected this course since it covers contemporary issues that I have be well aware of in my teaching practice setting (UK Univeristy). It does include topics on learning of adults throughout their lives and not just a particular time period and/or context. It is based on the notion of self- directed learning and how the digital age impacted such notion.
ED870: Capstone Portfolio
Professor: Matt Koehler
At the very start of the Master in Education I was wondering why this course must be taken only at the end of the Master. Now, I have clearly understood the reasons why. This course, gave me the chance to look back in what I have studied throughout this Master and place myself in a self- evaluation of the ‘take aways’. What I have changed, my teaching philosophy and new instructional strategies are few among the many things that this Master gave me. At the end, this Portfolio gave me the chance to put together everything that I have learnt in a way to promote myself as a teacher.
EAD 801: Leadership and Organizational Development
Professor: BetsAnn Smith
This course supported me to study, analyze and reflect upon conceptions of leadership within the educational context. It emphasizes leadership as a range of formal and informal acts- as a form of mind and action- that any member of an organization may engage in. A series of books within this course explored the necessary steps to have change within an organization, be of adaptive nature and sustain a holding environment where disequilibrium will be of beneficial nature. Discussions and other group interactions are a key component of the course and apparent in each and every week.
EAD 800: Concepts of Educational Inquiry
Professor: Steve Weiland
The scheme of this course gave me the opportunity to define what is the best educational scheme to learn from this Master. Its form of self- paced learning gave me the appropriate freedom to define when and how I will succeed in this course. This course helped theorizing the essential domains of educational inquiry like philosophy and history of education, classroom-based or teacher research. Different approaches and theories upon teachers’ research were explored. For example, I have chosen, when talking about social sciences, ethnography as an appropriate means of educational inquiry. It is seen as one of the finest research methods. It is thought that greater and more valid inferences can be drawn from the repeated incidents that extended field exposure uniquely provides.
Spring 2014
EAD 866: Teaching in Postsecondary Education
Professor: John M. Dirkx
This course is designed to prepare teachers or to make them gain more expertise in teaching adult learners. It stood for me as a guide for teaching. Moreover, how I will structure a course, what my teaching objectives should cover, how I will effectively grade my students’ learning and many more have dominated the course content. Those subjects were fully covered together with something more- even of the same value with the answers on the above questions; the sharing of thoughts with people all around the globe. The literature built on this course around the main issues of teaching acted as a guide and the basis of learning.
EAD 860: The Concept of A Learning Society
Professor: Steve Weiland
This course is also given in a self- paced learning mode emphasizing the new digital society that we are all well aware of. I have found it as a very interesting and contemporary course since it is applicable to all graduates of Education. The different uses and conceptions on what consists of a leaning society dominate the theme of this course. This course challenge the student to define by himself/herself what is a learning society and under what scheme does it fit.
CEP 832: Teaching Children with Challenging Behavior
Professors: Dr. Vicky Mousouli and Dr. Evelyn Oka
This course is a highly specialized module for teachers working with tough children. All kinds of misbehaviors are explored and analyzed accordingly. Weekly discussions between my fellow students and myself helped us compare various case of challenging behaviors and how we combated them.
Summer 2014
EAD 861: Adult Learning
Professor: William Arnold
This course follows the structure of the above one. It intended to help me develop a better understanding of learning in adulthood and what is needed to teach effectively adults. What should be taken into account and to what extent differs from teaching children? Those are some of the main questions dominating this course.
CEP 883: Psychology Classroom Discipline
Professor: Dr. John Carlson and Dr. My Lien
CEP883 provided me with a six week topics which started with more theoretical grounds and towards the end made me think critically of what I have done so far in my teaching career and gave me room to improve myself as an educator. It launched me from theory to practice and from mere observance of my classroom teaching techniques to positive reflection. My favorite part of the course was the case studies of misbehaving children that we were to analyze within our groups.
TE 842: Elementary Teaching Assessment and Instruction
Professor: Marliese Peltier
As it can be assumed from the title of this course, it is very specific in terms of what it examines. Characteristics of effective reading assessment and instruction are explored as identified in research and described by respected reading researchers and practitioners. In each week different case studies of children are explored with different assessments (reading, writing) and the appropriate instructional strategies to improve their skills.
Fall 2014
EAD 882: Education in the Digital Age
Professor: Steve Weiland
I selected this course since it covers contemporary issues that I have be well aware of in my teaching practice setting (UK Univeristy). It does include topics on learning of adults throughout their lives and not just a particular time period and/or context. It is based on the notion of self- directed learning and how the digital age impacted such notion.
ED870: Capstone Portfolio
Professor: Matt Koehler
At the very start of the Master in Education I was wondering why this course must be taken only at the end of the Master. Now, I have clearly understood the reasons why. This course, gave me the chance to look back in what I have studied throughout this Master and place myself in a self- evaluation of the ‘take aways’. What I have changed, my teaching philosophy and new instructional strategies are few among the many things that this Master gave me. At the end, this Portfolio gave me the chance to put together everything that I have learnt in a way to promote myself as a teacher.