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I have taken the courses below as part of Michigan State University's Master of Arts in Education program. Within the program, my focuses are on P-12 Leadership and Sport Leadership and Coaching, I will also be receiving a certificate in Sport Leadership and  Administration.

Fall Semester 2017:

TE 801: Professional Role and Teaching Practice I (Dr. Erin Bronstein)

In this course we were introduced to what our graduate course load would be alongside of our teaching internship. This course required me to get to know the Michigan Social Studies Grade Level Content Expectations (GLCE) better to use them in my daily lessons in the classroom which I was interning. I learned more about bringing media into the classroom to help deliver the social studies curriculum better. The work done over the course of this semester went towards the culminating projects of TE 803, which was the second semester continuation of this class.

Spring Semester 2018:

TE 803: Professional Roles and Teaching Practice II (Dr. Erin Bronstein)

During the second semester of the teaching internship through Michigan State, I took this class to further my knowledge in the realm of teaching social studies. In this class we focused on multimedia options to aid us as young teachers to build skills to bring to the classroom. The culminating projects to this class were a portfolio of lessons that we prepared through the course of the year that we created a showcase website (like this one) for, and to plan and deliver a unit about a topic of our choosing to teach in our student-teaching roles.

Spring Semester 2023:

KIN 854: Legal Aspects of Sport (Alexandra Breske)

Spending a semester learning about the ins and outs of legalities around sport including tort law, liability, negligence, and contract issues (just to name a few) is important to my foundation as an aspiring athletic director. This class provided us with many different scenarios and case studies giving us situations and issues to solve and figure out using what we were learning in that module.  To conclude the class, we were given a case study to analyze in which we had to synthesize all of the information we had learned in the class and apply some of the concepts in the field. In the time after I've taken this class, I have been able to see the topics we learned about in real-time with the building of new facilities on our campus.

KIN 868: Skill Development in Athletes (Dr. Andrew Driska)

This course explored skill development through the lens of the constraints model of motor learning and constraints-led approaches as a means to understanding, applying, and assessing the range of coaching techniques intended to develop athletic skill. Through modules, book clubs, and numerous Zoom discussions, we learned about different coaching techniques for skill-building and how to integrate them into our practices. Group work was an important part of this course as we were required to use others in our group to collaborate new ideas to integrate what we were learning about into our individual coaching practices. The final project required us to film ourselves teaching a new skill to an athlete, my submission is under the "showcase" tab of this website.

Summer Semester 2023:

EAD 801: Leadership and Organizational Development (Dr. BetsAnn Smith)

The most important facet of this course was that we learned what attributes and actions it takes to become a leader, and the professor encouraged us all through the semester to learn more about ourselves as leaders. We studied concepts of leadership and how leaders improve organizations.  We focused on the relationship between leaders and followers and the various forms of leadership that effective leaders engage in. Due to this class occuring during the Summer semester, we were not able to be as hands on as I would have liked, but the learning concepts have been well applied in the time since.

ED 800: Concepts of Educational Inquiry (Dr. Kristy Cooper Stein)

This course introduced various concepts of educational research. The course was broken up into modules and each module gave the opportunity to learn about and practice the different themes and methods of educational research, such as Ethnography & Social Reproduction, Portraiture & Schools as Socializing Institutions, History & Educational Activism, Indigenous Research Methodologies & Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, and  Philosophy & Critical Pedagogy. Each unit, we would be introduced to the theme through a novel written about it and synthesize the information in written form as a summative assessment. To end the semester we had to do a cumulative project that included all of the research that we learned about over the course of the semester and analyze it against our own educational research beliefs and practices.

Fall Semester 2023:

KIN 853: Athletic Administration and Governance (Dr. Sanghoon Kim)

This class gave me my first glimpse into the concept of governance as it relates to sport organizations, which has major implications for how policies are developed and implemented across all levels of sport. One big thing I took away was that no matter the level of governance, from high school through olympic, processes and ideas are mostly similar, the scope is just much larger. Through the different modules of the class, given the course readings and quizzes, I also looked at how decision making occurs in sport organizations and how it affects the overall strategy and direction of the program or organization. This course also explained the different administrative functions of sport organizations in order to build a better understanding of how these organizations operate.

KIN 857: Promoting Positive Youth Development Through Sport (Dr. Jennifer Roth)

In this course, we focused on the ways to facilitate positive youth development (PYD) through sport. We also learned about life skills and how they relate to PYD and how to use certain drills and techniques to teach them. There was an emphasis is placed on scientific bases of life skill development, evaluation and assessment of positive youth development outcomes, and coaching/leadership strategies for promoting PYD through sport. The class was broken up into modules and projects to explore ways in which athletic leaders can use life skills in their coaching to better influence their athletes to become more well-rounded young people. 

Spring Semester 2024:

ED 870: Capstone Seminar (Dr. Matthew Koehler)

The reason you are here is because of this course- it required the curation and creation of this website. This site serves the purpose of showcasing major works of my time in Michigan State's Master of Arts in Education (MAED) program. This site has served as a place to hold my collegiate and professional work and was presented to peers in a showcase exhibition at the end of the semester. Through the course of the class I overcame some technological shortcomings I had and became unafraid of trying something new when it comes to web design.

KIN 849: Theory and Practice of Sport Leadership (Dr. Sanghoon Kim)

This course highlighted a broad range of leadership and organizational issues in sport, and examined a range of topics including leadership, culture, group dynamics, organizational change, and inclusion. Through the course, I developed an understanding of leadership and organizational behavior issues happening within the current sport climate and environment and created solutions and strategies to address and fix these sport workplace issues. This class mixed leadership ideas and ideals with sport leadership and showed how business leadership tactics can be brought over and used in the sporting world. The biggest assignment of the semester was to analyze ourselves as leaders and to continually refine that over the course of the semester, helping us to identify our strengths and weaknesses as people and as leaders. 

KIN 852: Ethics in Sport Coaching and Leadership (Dr. Andrew Driska)

Through this course, I was able to broaden my awareness of ethical issues and moral obligations in sport and used real life situations to improve my ability to make ethical decisions that an athletic director or someone in charge of an athletic department may make. The primary mode of learning in this course was through case studies done based on real life scenarios to put us in the shoes of the decision makers to attempt to make tough decisions and rationalize them through ethical and moral means. This was a one credit course but I took a lot away from this in making ethical and moral decisions in both a leadership role and in our day to day lives.