Ryan E. Smith
ED 870 Capstone Portfolio
Annotated Transcript
This page represents the MAED program I graduated from at Michigan State University. Here, you will find a short description of each course I took, its purpose, and my grade.
EAD 860
Concept of a Learning Society
Summer 2011
N. Sheltrown, S. Weiland
GPA: 4.0
Credits: 3
Concept of a Learning Society focused on how people in today's society learn. We spent a great deal of time discussing and reading about how technology influences people's lives and how they search out knowledge. This course offered great insight into how learning is changing and society is changing with it.
This course tackled key concepts of leadership and the organization of how leadership is applicable. There was collaborative group work along with independent projects. This course had great insight into how to develop leadership within an organization, individual, or school setting.
This was an introductory course for the MAED program at MSU. It tackled key concepts about education, its purpose, and why it is important. How people learn, how educators teach, and best practices were discussed.
KIN 856
Physical Basis of Coaching
Summer 2012
G. Harnick
GPA: 4.0
Credits: 3
Physical Basis of Coaching was a course meant to prepare coaches and administrators for responsibilities. It offered content to educate us on preparations of the responsibilties that come with the positions. It covered a wide variety of issues outside of the physical aspects of coaching as well.
KIN 854
Legal/Administrative Issues of Coaching
Spring 2012
R. Atkinson
GPA: 4.0
Credits: 3
KIN 854 focused on introductory aspects of being an administrator, or coach and specific issues dealt with in the field. It tackled key legal issues that schools, or athletic programs, may face. Many legal topics were covered.
This course offered insight into the psychological perspectives of learners and education. We used our own experiences to understand how learning takes place. The course focused on educational settings as well as other social settings.
KIN 855
Psychosocial Basis of Coaching
Fall 2012
M. Ewing
GPA: 4.0
Credits: 3
Psychosocial Basis of Coaching had an extreme amount of information about the psychological side of coaching. We discussed best practices of how to teach and how athletes learn. Scientific aspects of athletes and their mental state was a main concept as well.
KIN 857
Positive Youth Development through Sport
Fall 2012
D. Gould
GPA: 4.0
Credits: 3
KIN 857 covered key areas of positive youth development through sport. There were many discussions on why it is important for youth to participate in sports, not just for the fitness aspects, but for social interactions as well. We also discussed parental involvement and "burnout" issues.
TE 846
Accomodating Differences in Literacy Learners
Spring 2013
J. Knight
GPA: 3.5
Credits: 3
ED 870
Capstone Seminar
Summer 2013
M. Koehler
GPA: In Progress
Credits: 3
This course had a great amount of information on how to incorporate literacy learning into the classroom setting. Being a physical education teacher, I found it to be very informative on how students learn literacy concepts and best practices for teaching them. We had a semester long case study with students and applied these concepts.
The purpose of this course is to develop an onlne portfolio to showcase what I have learned in my MAED program. It is a great opportunity to create a website for potential employees to see my skills and abilities, as well as a single place to have my resume and transcript, among other things. It is an arena to discuss and analyze our work in the program.