C.L.Steele

EAD 860 Concepts of a Learning Society

Riyad A. Shahjahan

 

This class focused on the study of different groups and cultures who come together to form groups of learners.  The class looked carefully at what it meant to be cohesive group of learners and how that definition ranges cultures, classes, races, and locations. One project for this class was to create a critical analysis in the form of a visual representation of several researches presented in the class readings.This presentation made concrete the different ways in which people learn and learn together.

 

ED 800 Concepts of Educational Inquiry

Steven Weiland
Nathan Clason

 

This class was a foundational course, covering a wide range of topics.  Of the questions posed by this class, the most  intriguing was how do we learn and what is most worth knowing and how are individual, institutional, and social views of education and the curriculum at all levels reconciled?  This class opened the door for thinking critically about education as a whole and how it fits in with a the goals of the educator and the goals of society.

 

CEP 882  Seminar in CEP - Creating Inspirational & Compelling Learning Experiences

David Wong

 

This class was an eye-opening journey through the ways in which educators can take cues from other disciplines and professions in order to create exciting experiences in the classroom.  By looking at other educators, fashion designers, technology developers, movie directors, musicians, and composers we looked critically at how the elements of their work could influence our own classroom teaching style.  Projects for this class included several "Two Minute Moment" videos that illustrated the concepts of a compelling experience.

 

EAD 830 Urban Education and the Racial Achievement Gap

Christopher Dunbar

 

Urban Education and the Racial Achievement Gap analyized the complex nature of urban schools and the growing issues surrounding the racial achievement gap.  While a complicated subject, this class attempted to compare and contrast the major view regarding the achievement gap and the different theories related to closing the achievement gap. Working at the time with urban, minority students this was a particularly compelling class. 

 

 

 

ED 822  Diverse Students and Families

Christopher Dunbar

This course took students through the relevant research regarding English Language Learners and Cultrually Diverse Learners who struggle to succeed in teh American school systems.  Readings included research regarding ability of these groups to obtain cultural capital, to overcom bullying, terrorism, neighborhood violence, low socioeconomic status, adn other issues thedirectly influence a student's academic success.  Papers for this class pursued the va variety fo strategies offered by researchers on how school learders should approach these groups, integrate a antiracist school policies, and help students from diverse backgrounds succeed academically.

 

 

EAD 870 Capstone Seminar 

Brittany Dillman

Spencer Greenhaigh

Sarah Keenan

Matthew Koehler

 

This course gave students an opportunity to reflect on all of their coursework at MSU and prepare a wholisitic review of thier succcess in the Masters of Education program. Coursework largely focused on a large portfolio presentation.  This interactive online portfolio was built over the course of the semester and engaged studetns in active reflection on their teaching and academic pursuits. The writings and portfolio prepartaion for this class gave me the opportunity to reexamine my goals as they stood upon entering graduate school and prepare goals for my teaching after graduation.