MAET Annotated Coursework
TE 802
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Reflect & Inquiry
Teaching Practice I
(Fall 2015)
Instructor: Carrie Symons
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This course was focused on Literacy instruction. I took this course while completing my internship and it helped inform my reading practices. I was able to look at assessment more closely and complete inquiry activities that helped me take a closer look how literacy was being used in the district and the classroom I was placed in. I also created a lesson plan to put these ideas into action. I learned how to use assessments to guide my instruction and meet the needs of individual students.
TE 803
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Professional Roles &
Teaching Practice II
(Spring 2016)
Instructor: Andrew Miness
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This course was focused on Social Studies. I took this course while completing my internship. During the length of this course, I was learning how to create a social studies unit, but also to begin taking over responsibilities in the classroom. I co-created a unit on the colonies with my partner intern. I worked to make the content as relevant to our students as possible and involve the community (i.e., field trip, a parent who does reenactments, etc.).
TE 804
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Reflect & Inquiry
Teaching Practice II
(Spring 2016)
Instructor: Elizabeth De Los Santos
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This course was focused on science and took place during my teaching internship. I co-created a science unit on ecosystems with my partner intern. I learned how to take standards and plan around them while also looking at how our results would become statistics in the overall data of the classroom and school. I also learned how to make the science content more interactive to increase engagement and student accountability.
CEP 800​
Learning in school & other settings
(Spring 2019)
Instructors: Dianna Brandon & Brittany Dillman
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CEP 800 was one of my favorite courses in the MAET program. The course focused on habits and how they affect learning. I was so intrigued by the book The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg because it made learning a much more primitive idea. I learned that habits must be given time to form and even more time to break and reform. This is something I have already been applying with my students because habits are much more present in my classroom than I could have imagined.
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CEP 810​
Teaching Understanding with technology
(Spring 2019)
Instructor: Mary Wever
Taking the CEP 810 course was really challenging, but it made me think more deeply about how I use technology. I had to consider whether technology was truly pushing a lesson further or just there because it was available. One of the readings that really stuck with me was Mishra & Koehler’s Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework. This framework made the connection between the three types of knowledge clear and pointed to the importance of them being used together in the classroom. I also reflected about learning in general at the beginning of the course which has started to impact my practice.
CEP 811​
Adapting innovative technology to education
(Summer 2019)
Instructor: Edith Erickson
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This course focused on incorporating technology into the classroom. I learned how to use a new technology and test it as a maker. I was able to experiment with a Makey Makey kit and design an innovative learning experience with it. I was also able to blog about all of my learning and products on my website. This was a valuable course because I learned how to take a cool tech tool and incorporate it into a classroom setting.
CEP 812​
applying educational technology to issues of practice
(Summer 2019)
Instructors: Emily Stone & Brittany Dillman
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In CEP 812, the focus was on questioning and developing a wicked problem. I learned about the importance of questioning through A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger. I narrowed in on a wicked question by applying the questioning strategies in Berger’s book. I also created a survey to help gather data on my wicked problem and then conducted some research to provide a possible solution to the problem of school not being a social place for learning.
CEP 822​
Approaches to educational research
(Summer 2019)
Instructor: David Wong
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In this course, I was challenged to look at research in a different way. I was asked to complete several small tasks that culminated in a paper about how my own research, combined with my peers, should be used to inform future education. I chose to focus on Project Based Learning. The tasks I completed along the way taught me how to source my material without looking for "my thoughts." The end creation was a Research Review Project that showcased what I had learned about types of data and how to interpret and leverage data.
CEP 820​
teaching students online
(Fall 2019)
Instructors: Anne Heintz, Marissa Zhu
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For this course, my main objective was to create an online module. I had to understand the complexities of creating content online, keeping both pedagogical practices in mind as well as technology practices. I was able to put the thing I learned about Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and how students learn online to create a hybrid course that I can actually use with my students. I came out of this course having a better understanding of how students learn online and how I can make classroom learning time much more effective by including an online component.
CEP 807​
Educational technology capstone
(Fall 2019)
Instructors: Matthew Koehler, Aric Gaunt, Brooke Thomas
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Over the course of my capstone, I created this website. While this is not my first website, I was able to learn how to display myself professionally. Reflecting and collaborating with peers was essential for editing and improving my finished website. I was able to reflect on my time in the Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) which will help me continue to reflect on my practices as I continue my career as an elementary educator.