CARA
HILLEBRAND
Course Instructor: Anne-Lise Halvorsen
TE 803 focused on the professional responsibilities and other roles that we often take on as educators, in addition to teaching in our own classroom. One of our major endeavours in this class was to choose an activity, club, or sport to sponsor for our “Commitments Project”. This course and especially this project taught me not only the impact I can have on my school but about the importance of building relationships with students outside of the classroom.
TE 803
Spring 2014
Professional Roles and Teaching Practice II
Course Instructor: Marti Beitner-Miller
This course was a continuation of TE 802. It further expanded on teaching stategies in the classroom. In this course, I was tasked with creating lesson plans, sharing artifacts from the classroom, and shadowing teacher and other school support professionals in our internship school. Our major project was creating a unit plan for use in our internship and future classrooms. I also worked in groups to discover solutions to isseus we ran into during our interships. Finally, we created an electronic teaching portfolio in which we shared our resume, lesson plans, unit plans and the like. My professor led us through the everyday nuisances, joys and issues that we would encounter in our impending career of teaching.
TE 804
Spring 2014
Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice II
Course Instructor: Sean Williams
EAD 822 was a course in which I used a variety of books and articles to discover the complexity of the backgrounds of our students. I was able to break down the notions of culture, race, gender and religion and discover not only their impact on my students but also how my own experiences and opinions have shaped who I am, who my students see me as, and how I approach the diverse students that I have. This course forced me to shift my thinking in terms of working with diverse students. One of the primary projects in the course was a group project in which we created a webpage and a presentation based around a case study focusing on oppression. The other was a case study analysis of my own in which I used my observations of marginalization of black students in the classroom.
Diverse Students and Families
EAD 822
Fall 2016
Course Instructor: Dr. Binbin Zheng
CEP 816 helped me acquire the ability to select and implement new technology tools and texts are vital to the success of lessons. The focus must be on the needs of the students and how I can enhance lessons by building on the experience and knowledge I already have. This course has allowed me to experiment with numerous tools and understand the concept of new media within the changing world we live. The hands on, practical manner in which this course was organized has allowed me to experience how media texts and tools can ultimately benefit my teaching and strengthen student learning. In this class we began by talking about cognitive load. The culminating project known as The Dream Project was to redesign a unit using New Media Technology Tools (NMTT) that would help to reduce cognitive load. New media technologies that I used included YouTube, Diigo, Popplet, pod-o-matic, Google Docs, and Google Classroom. These NMTT not only help to reduce the cognitive load that students feel in my classroom, but also provide them with a variety of ways to organize their ideas, collaborate with others in the classroom and online, and to express their own ideas.
Teaching and Learning Across Curriculum
CEP 816
Fall 2016
Course Instructor: William Arnold
EAD 801 was a course designed to define leadership and what it means to be a leader within context. Within this course I gained new understandings of myself as a leader, of the leaders and leadership actions around me, and how to link leadership to valued organizational goals and processes of an organization. Within this course we focused on ways in which organizations develop and change or need to develop. We also paid attention to the roles of leaders and all organization members in processes of organizational development and change.
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Leadership & Organizational Development
EAD 801
Spring 2017
Course Instructor: Dongbo Zang
TE 846 was a course that allowed me to research various approaches and techniques for literacy instruction, and to engage in a focused research case study with a first grader struggling with literacy. Using a variety of instructional approaches at varying levels of understanding, this application research study gave me valuable insight about how to isolate reading skills within the context of daily instruction, and how to scaffold instructional supports accordingly in order to meet the needs of each student. Course themes included detailed analysis of tiered intervention strategies, and I was able to incorporate phonemic, word-level strategies with higher-level analysis throughout five units of instruction. Case study results indicated large growth in student achievement in both oral reading and reading comprehension based upon a variety of diagnostic, formative and summative assessments use before, during and after instruction.
Accomodating Different Literacy Learners
TE 846
Spring 2017
Course Instructor: Dr. Matthew Koehler
ED 870 was a course in which I was able to higlight all of the work that I created over the course of my time in the Michigan State University Masters in Education (MAED) program. Throughout this course, I created a cumulative electronic portfolio to display my learning, educational philosophy, and coursework from the MAED program. I also collaborated with other students in my class to ensure that all students created the most effective professional teaching portfolio possible in order to showcase our individual talents and strenghts as both teachers and learners. This was the culminating course that brought together everything that we had learned throughout our time in the MAED program.
Capstone Seminar
ED 870
Summer 2017
Annotated Transcript
Course Instructor: Steven Weiland
EAD 860 was a course that opened my eyes to all of the ways we learn outside of a traditional educational setting, but don't often think of as 'learning.' We reviewed learning through different mediums - at school, at work, aboard, self-discovery and learning, etc. This course challenges us to think outside the traditional bounds of teaching students, even within the classroom. It also challenges us to think about our own learning, our preferences, and how it continues to evolve.
Concepts of a Learning Society
EAD 860
Summer 2016
Course Instructor: Steven Weiland
ED 800 was an introductory course which gave me an opportunity to think and write about essential questions of education, including but not limited to: What are its purposes, traditions, characteristic activists, and recurring problems and efforts at reform? Through this course I was able to encounter different forms of inquiry, and their purposes, methods, uses, and meanings. The greatest understanding that I took away from this class was the fact that education, as a subject of inquiry, interpretation, and criticism, is a multidisciplinary and not multi-media endeavor inviting us to understand the nature of teaching and learning, with administration and leadership, from diverse perspectives.
Concepts of Educational Inquiry
ED 800
Summer 2016
Course Instructor: Kristin McIlhagga
This class helped me learn about teaching all academic subjects through literacy. The professor helped us view literacy as the foundation for all other subjects. This course focused on the language we use in our classroom and the language experiences our students have in school. She urged us to think about how our students are learning language through talking, reading, listening, writing and viewing, how our students learn about language by exploring how language functions and the various conventions we use to communicate and how our students can use language as a tool for learning. Lastly, she addressed the importance of creating a balanced literacy classroom.
TE 802
Fall 2013
Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice I
Here you will find a listing of the courses I took while completing my master's of education in the Michigan State University MAED program. The first three courses were taken during my fifth year internship after completing my undergraduate work at Michigan State University. This unique program allows teacher interns to earn graduate credit while fulfilling their student teaching requirements.