Denzel Drone
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Instructor: Matthew Koehler
My final course to complete my masters degree is the ED 870 Capstone seminar. This course will allow me to showcase the work that I have completed over the past two years through an online portfolio. This course allows me to reflect on the information that I have learned throughout my graduate program. The online portfolio also allows me the chance to display the knowledge that I have gained throughout these past two years. My My favorite assignment in this course was the showcase of graduate work. This assignment gave me the opportunity to look back over all the assignments I had completed since starting the MAED program. I also enjoyed the pace of this class since we had an assignment due weekly which allowed me to keep up and even get slightly ahead.
Content Instruction Mild Disabilities - CEP 842
Instructor: Dr. Cindy Okolo
In this course, we were asked to investigate instructional practices that can be used in general education classrooms to improve the learning and academic performance of students with mild learning problems and disabilities. We were asked to focus on instruction in the content-area subjects of science, social studies, and mathematics. The goal was not to examine how to teach these subjects, but, rather, how to design and differentiate instruction that is sensitive to individual learning needs and preferences. This course was by far my most unlike class for a few reasons. But one thing I did like about the course was the weekly blogging. It allowed me the chance to focus on writing again as a whole. One of the major let downs in the course was the structure of the group project. We were told to form our own groups but when we reported that some of our group members were doing little to no work, anything was done so me and another group member had to do a four member project with only two people.
Education in the Digital Age - EAD 878
Instructor: Dr. Steven Weiland
This course was designed to display considerable amount of domain of inquiry and practice. Also to present the ways in which features of the course subjects were being debated. We were asked to look at education in the digital age conducted in the spirit of criticism, or the examination of ideas and practices by weighing their strengths and weakness. The one assignment that stood out to me was titled Web 2.0: Everyone In. This assignment I took a deeper look at how I could better my place of work by implementing more wed based activities and exercise to help better the youth I work with.
Instructor: Dr. Ginny Jones
In this course we were asked to use educational research and theory, popular culture, and our own experiences as educators and learners to explore historical, developmental influences of adult learning. Also one of the goals for this course was to create a learning community that everyone could feel safe in while exploring adult learning. When taking this course we were allowed to choose the way we completed our assignments. Since I thought this was a cool way to learn I decided to create an infographic of my work for the first time.
The Concept of the Learning Society - EAD 860
Instructor: Dr. Steven Weiland
The goals of this course was to explore what it meant by the learning society as the phrase is used in the US and other nations, or how the phrase has come to mean several things in its brief history. Also to learn the primary domains and activities of the learning society in their historical, social, economic, and cultural contexts. My favorite assignment during this was writing a reflection paper of the book Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language by Deborah Fallows. This assignment allowed me to understand more about the meaning of life, love, and language.
Classroom Management in the Inclusive Classroom - CEP 841
Instructor: Dr. Troy Mariage
This course allowed me the chance to conduct my own self-assessment on my beliefs about learners and learning by using existing management skills, and my own vision of what an inclusive learning community was in my setting. One of the main goals for this course was to understand the central role of leadership in the classroom. In this course I was given the chance to do some research on bullying within the school system. This opened my eyes in the aspect that any students can be picked on by their peers.
Teaching Children with Challenging Behaviors - CEP 832
Instructor: Dr. Vicky Mousouli
This course explored the psychological and behavioral characteristics of children who are difficult to teach. We were taught research based practices for instruction and classroom management for these students and how to develop partnerships with their families. The goal was to become a community that learns from each other as well as from the professional literature. After looking back through all my assignments I think the ABC project allowed me to reach my full potential to working with trouble youth for this assignment I had to look deeply at one of my youth and understand his challenging behavior.
Consultation and Collaboration- CEP 801A
Instructor: Dr. Emily Bouck
This course was designed for special educators to enhance their skills related to decision-making, problem-solving, and collaboration for effective education of students with disabilities. There were several factors that went along with informing us of how to become better at decision-making. In order to develop thoughtful and responsive instruction for students with disabilities, some of the factors included attention to the school and classroom environment, instructional and behavioral methods, curriculum, evidence-based practices related to effective teaching and learning to name a few. In this course my favorite assignments were the weekly discussions. During the weekly discussions I was able to better understand the weekly readings through conversations with my classmates.
New Media Literacies for Teaching and Learning - CEP 816
Instructor: Dr. Paul Morsink
This course worked by building on the knowledge and experiences we already had with digital technologies to enhance instruction and learning. This class aimed to deepen the thinking of new media specifically and the particular challenges, affordances, and trade-offs associated with using new media in order to teach and learn across the curriculum. We also worked with literacy, reading and writing, and media text-tools on how to apply them along with new media within the classroom without causing stress and discomfort to the students. This class gave me my first experience with creating a website and saved me a ton of this with future class while in the MAED program. The assignment that stands out to me still to this day was a screencast in which you give a dialogue on how to complete a digital task.
Concepts of Educational Inquiry - ED 800
Instructor: Dr. Steven Weiland
This course was an introductory capstone course it was designed to help educators step back, examine and reflect on the history of education. The purpose, problems and efforts to change education through our own views and societies view on education. Think about how people learn both in and out of school. Examine classroom based and teacher research. My favorite assignment for this course was my first assignment in the MAED program this assignment wanted us expand our personal opinion on several different and connecting views on the child and how education should be centered or connected to them.