Over time, the core faculty have taken responsibility for different courses that we teach on a regular basis. Each academic year since I began my time at MSU, I have taught three courses per semester and usually two more in the summer. Spring 2018 marks ten AY semesters of instruction and 3 summer semesters. The vast majority of these have been in the MAFLT program, but I have also taught the graduate-level (LLT 807) and undergraduate-level (LLT 307) courses in Methods of Language Teaching for the TESOL program. In the last five years, the only semesters when I was not teaching at least one course if not two courses that were new to me or completely revised versions of prior courses were the fall I returned from maternity leave and last fall. In the case of every course I have taught online, I built the course single-handedly in MSU’s learning management system (D2L) at the same time that I was teaching it, which has not been ideal but has allowed for nimble and responsive course design processes. I also build D2L course pages and incorporate hybrid elements into my face-to-face courses.
In alternate years (2013-14, 2015-16, and 2017-18), my course load has involved supervising extensive master’s projects known as Experiential Modules (EMs) and Final Portfolios. To date, I have supervised about 20 EM projects, in formats that involved action research, ethnographic research, materials and curriculum design, language immersion, and professional seminars. I have also served as first or second reviewer on almost every Final Portfolio, which we require students to complete and publish online before completing the program. These courses, FLT 885 and FLT 898, also have pages that I built in D2L with instructional videos, guidelines documents, and procedures for communication and feedback. I collaborated with Paula and Dustin in deciding on the content and criteria for the portfolios, and the forms that we use to guide, review, and evaluate EMs and portfolios are based on those that I created when I mentored my first large cohort of graduating MAFLT students.