Annotated Transcript

My annotated transcript addresses all the courses I have taken throughout my time studying to complete my Master of Arts in Educational Technology Below you will find a summary of my experiences and takeaways.

TE: Teacher Education

CEP: Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education

ED: Education

TE 801: Professional Roles and Teaching Practice I

Dr. Higinio Dominquez

Fall 2017

This was a course required during my internship year, this course focused on developing my skills as a math teacher. Throughout the course we developed high level lessons to teach our students as well as practice teaching number talks at different times during the semester. We used number talks to discover ways our students solved math problems mentally. I still use number talks in my classroom today to understand the way my students solve math problems mentally.

TE 802: Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice I

Dr. Patricia Edwards

Fall 2017

This was a course required during my internship year, this course focused on developing my skills as a literacy teacher. Throughout the course, we designed literacy units that aligned with our internship school’s pre-existing curriculum. We taught lessons that we created in our classrooms and learned how to assess our students and use the data to drive instruction.

TE 803: Professional Roles and Teaching Practice II

Molly Barrett and Allie Whitford

Spring 2018

This was a course required during my internship year, this course focused on developing my skills as a social studies teacher. Similar to the courses above, we used the social studies curriculum that was being taught in my internship district to create lessons that were inclusive and culturally sensitive to our students and community. Once we created those lessons, we taught them to our students and reflected on what we taught, what went well, and what could have been improved upon.

TE 804: Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice II

Andrea Varricchione

Spring 2018

This was a course required during my internship year, this course focused on developing my skills as a science teacher. We had a big focus on the Next Generation Science Standards and created lessons using NGSS. We taught those lessons to our class and reflected on how the lesson went.

ED 800: Concepts of Educational Inquiry

Dr. Steven Weiland

Summer 2021

During this class, we were asked to think and write about essential questions of education. We learned about and questioned the philosophy and history of education, theories of the mind and curriculum, etc. We used our own experiences to reflect on these topics as well as used books and movies to think through these topics even further. My biggest takeaway from this course was my new ability to see education and learning from different perspectives.

CEP 841: Classroom Management in Inclusive Classrooms

Dr. Troy Mariage

Summer 2021

While this course did not focus on technology, it was all about inclusive classrooms. This was something I have been interested in since deciding to finish my Master's Degree. General education teachers have little to no direct instruction on how to best work with students who have disabilities. While we can use our previous experience, every child is different. I wanted to learn more about how to make sure my students all felt included in my classroom at all times. This course taught me great classroom management strategies like ways to call names, how to provide scaffolding, how to work best with students who come from trauma, and ways to make sure students feel like they have choice in your classroom. When I took this course, I was starting in a new district right at the peek of coronavirus so it was tricky to use these strategies right as I was learning them. This past year I had less restrictions and was able to use what I learned in this course. My biggest takeaway from this class is that even though I have a lot of skills and strategies in this area of teaching, there is always space to learn more and try new things as our students all benefit from and need different things.

CEP 813: Electronic Assessment for Teaching and Learning

Dr. Stephanie Jennings

Fall 2021

I was very interested in taking this course because when you hear the word assessment, we all think the same thing. It is a way of seeing where our students are in their education. It is a way of collecting data in order to figure out if we need to reteach. However, this course taught me that there is so much more to assessment than we immediately think about. Not only is there more to it, there are so many different ways to assess our students. This class focused on technological assessment. This course forced me to try assessing students using technology and finding ways to engage students using technology. I was able to put a lot of these strategies and ideas into practice with my own students and collect data on what worked and what did not work as well. Some of these assessment strategies I used for the remainder of the school year and will continue to use for years to come. For example, assessing students using games. A lot of educational kid friendly apps have ways to collect data as a teacher. There are also apps that my students were engaged in and loved but I could create my own assessments on that helped me to drive my instruction.

CEP 820: Teaching Students Online

Dr. Anne Heintz

Fall 2021

The last few years, teaching students online has never been more relevant. As teachers during a pandemic, we dropped everything we knew and created online classrooms and figured everything out as we moved through this unprecedented time of our lives and careers. During this course, we were able to do just that. I created an online classroom geared toward teachers wanting to learn about how to teach mindfulness in their classrooms. Even though we were not actually teaching our course, we created lessons and assessments and received feedback on them. We also learned classroom management tools for teaching online and universal design for learning as well. Because this course is so relevant, I was able to incorporate a lot of what I was learning into my day to day teaching and creating an online learning space for my students and parents.

CEP 815: Technology and Leadership

Kyle Shack

Spring 2022

This course touched exactly on what I see my future in education to be. We dove into types of leadership, creating technology based professional development, relationship building, learning by looking at technology from multiple perspectives, and assessing its benefits and challenges to different audiences. I not only learned a lot about what technology is and how to use it in my classroom but I also learned about what kind of leader I could be if I were to take a leadership role in educational technology.

CEP 812: Applying Educational Technology to Issues of Practice

Nicole Zumpano

Spring 2022

CEP 812 was all about questioning. Asking any question from simple to complex. We spent this short course on exploring a wicked problem that we asked about education. We created a survey that teachers took for us to collect data, we used texts, and discussion to solve or work to solve our problem. The question I asked is how do teachers support higher achieving students in their classroom while also supporting the lower? I asked this question because as teachers we are always trying to get our lowest students up to where they should be academically but sometimes our brightest students get left behind because they are either at or above where they should be. I was curious about different ways teachers address this problem. Not only did I learn new ways to help my higher achieving students but I also learned that no matter what the problem, there are ways to solve it and questions to ask in order to find a solution.

TE 846: Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learning

Dr. Raven Jones Stanbrough

Summer 2022

In this course, we explored the characteristics of literacy instruction for all learners. We were able to put our learning into action and work with a student for the entirety of the course. We assessed the student, motivated them, learned about their strengths as literacy learners, and what they still needed to work on. We were also able to work with a partner to give each other feedback on assessments and lessons which helped me to reflect on what I am teaching my student and why. I used assessment tools like running records and an interest inventory to get to know my student's reading level and find any holes in her foundational skills as well as learn about what types of text she is interested in. As peers, we discussed our experiences in education and reflected upon reading passages in a discussion board. During this course, I not only was able to apply my knowledge weekly but was able to learn from my peers in this class as well.

ED 870: Capstone Portfolio

Dr. Matthew Koehler

Summer 2022

The unique part about this course is it asks us to reflect on not only our experience as educators but we reflect on all the courses we have taken throughout our Master's program. It has been both tough and interesting to think back on the courses I have taken in order to get where I am today. We are also working to build a portfolio of all the work we have done. The power of reflection is extremely important in growing as people and teachers. Reflecting on my teaching is something I do daily, but reflecting on my learning is not always something I do. Over the course of this class, we slowly built our portfolio piece by piece as well as apply feedback from both our professor and peers. We reflected on each weeks assignments and gave feedback to peers through flipgrid. Overall, creating this portfolio has been a very surreal experience because I truly am celebrating and reflecting on all the work I have put into my graduate courses.

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Michigan State Spartans logo and symbol, meaning, history, PNG. (2022, May 29). 1000 Logos. https://1000logos.net/michigan-state-spartans-logo/

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