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Below you will find a list and description of the courses I have completed within my time in the MAED program at MSU.
Course Name KEY:
CEP: Counseling, Educational Psychology, & Special Education
ED: Education
KIN: Kinesiology
EAD: Educational Administration
Below you will find a list and description of the courses I have completed within my time in the MAED program at MSU.
Course Name KEY:
CEP: Counseling, Educational Psychology, & Special Education
ED: Education
KIN: Kinesiology
EAD: Educational Administration
Fall 2017
CEP 804A
Literacy Instruction for Students with Mild Disabilities
Instructor: Dr. Carol Sue Englert
After completing my first MA in teaching and curriculum focusing in part on language and literacy in 2017, I began looking into the connections between ballet and language instruction. This course aligned with a class I teach, Adaptive dance (dance for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder), in looking at strategies and methods for teaching literacy to students with mild disabilities. I learned how to collect, analyze, and interpret data relevant to the instruction of language and literacy. Specific data collections and analysis provided me the opportunity to practice breaking down the basics of phonetics in order to relate back to how ballet can be broken down as a language to support literacy learning.
Literacy Instruction for Students with Mild Disabilities
Instructor: Dr. Carol Sue Englert
After completing my first MA in teaching and curriculum focusing in part on language and literacy in 2017, I began looking into the connections between ballet and language instruction. This course aligned with a class I teach, Adaptive dance (dance for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder), in looking at strategies and methods for teaching literacy to students with mild disabilities. I learned how to collect, analyze, and interpret data relevant to the instruction of language and literacy. Specific data collections and analysis provided me the opportunity to practice breaking down the basics of phonetics in order to relate back to how ballet can be broken down as a language to support literacy learning.
ED 800
Concepts of Educational Inquiry
Instructor: Steven Weiland
This course provided me with a foundation of inquiry into the problems of theory and practice in a range of relevant areas including teaching and learning, administration, and leadership. By looking into these three areas of education within the light of various methodologies including psychological, ethnographic, and philosophical concepts, I was introduced to the study of leadership. Through the real-life application essays and inquiries in this course, I began to see relations to my experiences in taking on more leadership roles at my place of work. This course began the turning point of my educational interest towards focusing on leadership.
Concepts of Educational Inquiry
Instructor: Steven Weiland
This course provided me with a foundation of inquiry into the problems of theory and practice in a range of relevant areas including teaching and learning, administration, and leadership. By looking into these three areas of education within the light of various methodologies including psychological, ethnographic, and philosophical concepts, I was introduced to the study of leadership. Through the real-life application essays and inquiries in this course, I began to see relations to my experiences in taking on more leadership roles at my place of work. This course began the turning point of my educational interest towards focusing on leadership.
KIN 857
Promoting Positive Youth Development through Sport
Instructor: Dr. Daniel Gould
This course offered insight into how sports coaching can be utilized in the positive development of youth by looking at coaching and mentoring. This course had a direct link to my professional work as a ballet teacher, working to progress my instruction of ballet and support my student’s development as young people and dancers. This course provided me the opportunity to look into developing mentorships and teaching strategies that could better prioritize the development of my students. This course began my investigation towards bettering the learning environment for ballet instruction to not only provide excellent training in the name of dance, but to also produce healthy positive young people through the development in dance.
Promoting Positive Youth Development through Sport
Instructor: Dr. Daniel Gould
This course offered insight into how sports coaching can be utilized in the positive development of youth by looking at coaching and mentoring. This course had a direct link to my professional work as a ballet teacher, working to progress my instruction of ballet and support my student’s development as young people and dancers. This course provided me the opportunity to look into developing mentorships and teaching strategies that could better prioritize the development of my students. This course began my investigation towards bettering the learning environment for ballet instruction to not only provide excellent training in the name of dance, but to also produce healthy positive young people through the development in dance.
Spring 2018
KIN 865
Stages of Athlete Development
Instructor: Dr. Andrew Driska
This course provided a look into the stages of development in application to athletes. This course explained the connection between development from childhood into adulthood with the progression of sports. This was a key part of my education/professional connection because as a ballet teacher, child development is not always considered in the development of dance curriculum. This course provided me the ability to create a restructured understanding of ballet instruction for children.
Stages of Athlete Development
Instructor: Dr. Andrew Driska
This course provided a look into the stages of development in application to athletes. This course explained the connection between development from childhood into adulthood with the progression of sports. This was a key part of my education/professional connection because as a ballet teacher, child development is not always considered in the development of dance curriculum. This course provided me the ability to create a restructured understanding of ballet instruction for children.
Fall 2018
CEP 818
Creativity in Teaching and Learning
Instructor: Swati Mehta, A. Zellner
This class was different from others I have taken. As a ballet dancer in the creative performing arts, I have thought of myself as a fairly creative person, but this course helped me to reshape my view of creativity within my professional boundaries. One project we completed, I was able to re-envision the way of understanding the directions of movement for teaching dance on paper. This project helped me better understand how to explain these patterns of movement to my students by helping me engage with the over used concept in a new light. This application proved very useful in my progress as a teacher in my design of class plans.
Creativity in Teaching and Learning
Instructor: Swati Mehta, A. Zellner
This class was different from others I have taken. As a ballet dancer in the creative performing arts, I have thought of myself as a fairly creative person, but this course helped me to reshape my view of creativity within my professional boundaries. One project we completed, I was able to re-envision the way of understanding the directions of movement for teaching dance on paper. This project helped me better understand how to explain these patterns of movement to my students by helping me engage with the over used concept in a new light. This application proved very useful in my progress as a teacher in my design of class plans.
EAD 860
Concept of a Learning Society
Instructor: Steven Weiland
This course provided a look into the world as a broader structured learning society. This helped me continue applying my study of education through an academic view outside of academia to ballet and the world around us. As people, we can experience the world as active learners, and this ability has changed my understanding of learning potential. In application to my profession, I have found this essential in the building of a mentor, student teacher program at my place of work. In looking at how we can better train student teachers, this open learning society becomes a valid point of focus.
Concept of a Learning Society
Instructor: Steven Weiland
This course provided a look into the world as a broader structured learning society. This helped me continue applying my study of education through an academic view outside of academia to ballet and the world around us. As people, we can experience the world as active learners, and this ability has changed my understanding of learning potential. In application to my profession, I have found this essential in the building of a mentor, student teacher program at my place of work. In looking at how we can better train student teachers, this open learning society becomes a valid point of focus.
Spring 2019
EAD 861
Adult Learning
Instructors: Riyad A Shahjahan
This course helped to define the educational structure for adult learning. By this point in my academic pursuit of my MAED program, I had become further involved in leadership opportunities at my place of work, engaging with different professional development teams and in the mentoring of student teachers. Studying the motivation and barriers of adult learners helped me restructure how I viewed adult learning, both for application to these settings as well as in the redesign of several open division courses I have taught at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre.
Adult Learning
Instructors: Riyad A Shahjahan
This course helped to define the educational structure for adult learning. By this point in my academic pursuit of my MAED program, I had become further involved in leadership opportunities at my place of work, engaging with different professional development teams and in the mentoring of student teachers. Studying the motivation and barriers of adult learners helped me restructure how I viewed adult learning, both for application to these settings as well as in the redesign of several open division courses I have taught at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre.
EAD 863
Training and Professional Development
Instructors: Emerald Templeton
This course was critical in my development of interest in building training and professional development programs for postsecondary education context. I was given the opportunity to build a program for student teachers at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and work on how to incorporate learning in skill specific ballet pedagogy, classroom management strategies, and child development. This course was crucial in the development and progression of my new professional goals leaning towards leadership.
Training and Professional Development
Instructors: Emerald Templeton
This course was critical in my development of interest in building training and professional development programs for postsecondary education context. I was given the opportunity to build a program for student teachers at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and work on how to incorporate learning in skill specific ballet pedagogy, classroom management strategies, and child development. This course was crucial in the development and progression of my new professional goals leaning towards leadership.
KIN 854
Legal and Administrative Issues for Administrators and Coaches
Instructor: Dr. Rick D Atkinson
This course, as a teacher and coach, was new to me. In my positions of coaching, I am not responsible for designing and upholding legality within our training, so this course was a challenge for me. I learned about many aspects of administrative design and coaching responsibilities that I was not informed of in the beginnings of my career. Especially moving more towards leadership, this information will become pressingly important as I begin designing and working to build new classes and studying the redesign of ballet instruction.
Legal and Administrative Issues for Administrators and Coaches
Instructor: Dr. Rick D Atkinson
This course, as a teacher and coach, was new to me. In my positions of coaching, I am not responsible for designing and upholding legality within our training, so this course was a challenge for me. I learned about many aspects of administrative design and coaching responsibilities that I was not informed of in the beginnings of my career. Especially moving more towards leadership, this information will become pressingly important as I begin designing and working to build new classes and studying the redesign of ballet instruction.
KIN 868
Skill Development in Athletes
Instructor: Dr. Andrew Driska
This course helped me to breakdown the way we coach ballet to the individual skill level. This course was perhaps the most relevant in my objectives and goals in wanting to change the way ballet is instructed. I was able to create this restructure plan and provided the opportunity to run a trail coaching session with a ballet dancer looking at constraints-led approaches to coaching ballet. This course enlightened the possibility to coach ballet to the individual strengths of each dancer rather than shame those whose natural body type does not match a particular training technique.
Skill Development in Athletes
Instructor: Dr. Andrew Driska
This course helped me to breakdown the way we coach ballet to the individual skill level. This course was perhaps the most relevant in my objectives and goals in wanting to change the way ballet is instructed. I was able to create this restructure plan and provided the opportunity to run a trail coaching session with a ballet dancer looking at constraints-led approaches to coaching ballet. This course enlightened the possibility to coach ballet to the individual strengths of each dancer rather than shame those whose natural body type does not match a particular training technique.
Summer 2019
EAD 801
Leadership and Organizational Development
Instructor: Leslie Gonzales
This course provides me the ability to interact with the concepts of leadership and organizational culture within the context of my own working environment. I was given the tools to examine current leadership practices under new lights and develop questions aimed to better guide leadership through a study of leadership theory.
Leadership and Organizational Development
Instructor: Leslie Gonzales
This course provides me the ability to interact with the concepts of leadership and organizational culture within the context of my own working environment. I was given the tools to examine current leadership practices under new lights and develop questions aimed to better guide leadership through a study of leadership theory.
ED 870
Capstone Seminar
Instructors: Dr. Matthew Koehler and Aric Gaunt
This course, our capstone seminar, worked as a reflection and syntheses of my learning across my time in the MAED program. I specifically found useful the opportunities provided to integrate my learning experiences from start to finish and work with peers to see how we have all come to utilize our program learning in our different settings. The creation of our online portfolios will not only become an avenue towards future employment opportunities, but also served as a guide to look back upon a synthesis of my learning and experiences in light of my future plans and goals.
Capstone Seminar
Instructors: Dr. Matthew Koehler and Aric Gaunt
This course, our capstone seminar, worked as a reflection and syntheses of my learning across my time in the MAED program. I specifically found useful the opportunities provided to integrate my learning experiences from start to finish and work with peers to see how we have all come to utilize our program learning in our different settings. The creation of our online portfolios will not only become an avenue towards future employment opportunities, but also served as a guide to look back upon a synthesis of my learning and experiences in light of my future plans and goals.