MSU MAED Showcase
I have selected eight pieces of work completed during my Master's of Art in Education program. These pieces discuss the art of teaching, providing all students access to the curriculum, classroom management, and the use of technology. I chose these pieces because they represent pieces of my philosophy of teaching. As teaching incorporates many components, these pieces represent the diverse aspects of this rewarding career.
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This proposal analyzes student engagement during a lesson. The lesson targets students' ability to use ratio notation to make comparison statements using inquiry based learning as part of the Connected Math Project (CMP3). The analysis includes observations on both affective and cognitive engagement and includes an interpretation of how and why students were engaged.
This science talk offers an alternative way to pre-asses students on their current understanding of a topic. The talk allowed me to guage students current understanding on the concept as well as introduce the concept in an engaging way that provided a connection to the real-world. A reflection follows the dialogue offering an analysis of the data and how to procede.
Art of Teaching
Providing ALL Students Access to Curriculum
This is an action research proposal on the effects of a scaffolding tool on problem solving in mathematics. As a teacher of three special education classes daily, I am constantly looking for ways to provide access to our curriculum to all students including those with learning disabilities. The researched tool helped students to learn and utilize a tool in order to complete a word problem step by step.
This Literacy Learners Analysis is a case study done on one student to support him in reading and writing in mathematics. Mathematical language includes both numbers and words. This case worked to support this student with compositional language.
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Classroom Management
This case is a design project focused on a single student. I identified a student in need of a motivation intervention. Once the student was identified I collected detailed observations about the learner, learning setting, motivational problem. The data was analyzed, I identified the motivational problem, and decided to take an intrinsic motivation approach. The goal was to increase self-perception of academic competence, and the results proved success in this.
In this analysis, intrinsic and extrinsic rewards are researched, observed, and reflected upon. This research speaks to all people who work with children on a daily basis such as parents, coaches, and teachers. The focus question analyzes what motivates students to learn and live a life with a drive to continuously grow as a learner.
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Technology in the Classroom
Vodcast Project
This project gave me the opportunity to explore a new technology. As I experienced creating a Vodcast, I brainstormed the many ways to incorporate them into my classroom. In this vodcast I created an introduction presentation on the Distributive Property that includes my voice. In the future, I plan to create vodcasts to use for presentations and when students have a substitute teacher, as well as provide students the opportunity to create their own Vodcast to demonstrate their understanding of a topic.
Re-Purposed Lesson Plan
This document includes a re-purposed lesson plan that includes technology. In my district, all students are 1-1 with technology. This 3-day lesson plan provides an example of how a standard lesson plan was re-purposed to incorporate technology making it more engaging, allowing students to be more creative, and allowing them to explore new technologies.