KIN 854 Legal Administration Issues Of Coaching (Spring 2010)
Professor: Rick Atkinson
The class focused on athletes, coaches, and athletic directors and how each individual had particular rights, responsibilities, and duties. The class focused on coaching negligence, breaches of duty, legal responsibility of athletic administration, and facilities inspection. Individuals in the class had to demonstrate their knowledge of the content through listening to lectures, responding in discussion posts, and writing responses to modules which focused on legal scenarios. Listed below is an example of one of the assignments in class in which we had to construct a response based on a scenario to away team policies for a given sports team to protect against lawsuits, negligence lawsuits, and breaches of certain legal duties.
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KIN 856 Physical Basis of Coaching (Summer 2010)
Professor: Scott Riewald
Kinesiology, Psychology, Anatomy, Physiology, and Exercise Science were explored in this challenging class. The class contributed to my improvement as a coach working hands on with professional coaching networks, exercise testing experiments, and valuable feedback session geared towards improving the knowledge base of coaches. I have included an example of resistant band exercises that can be used to prevent certain swimming injuries. The class was very applicable to my coaching experience simply because the class, discussions, and exams all challenged me towards my specific expertise of coaching.
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EAD 801 Leadership and Organizational Development (Spring 2011)
Professor: Dwan Robinson
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The class focused on Leadership styles from individual, group, and organizational perspectives. The class was constructed by having the student read, discuss, and write formal essays regarding leadership styles and which particular style is best suited to specific areas of expertise. Attached below is an example discussing the importance of extracurricular activities and how they specifically contribute to making a person, group, or cohort of people feel valueable to their community and organization. The class deepened my understanding of how leaders can make each person feel valued in the workplace and how they can motivate those individuals to do their best work for the organization.
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EAD 860 Concepts of Learning Society (Summer 2011)
Professor: Scott Riewald
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This particular class focused on how individuals and society as a whole can learn, mature, and develop skill sets to become successful leaders in their own community. The class was structured be having discussions and formal writings looking at particular authors works. Through the reading of authors works and writing of essays that varied from self-directed learning, online learning, and cultural works, the class allowed me to gain insight on how to view and value the importance of how a society as a whole learns. Attached below is an artifact of written work detailing how an individuals cultural background needs to be accounted for when applying ones self to a new society and/or community. The class increased my interest and passion for learning and how individuals and society view leadership.
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EAD 867 Case Studies in Educational Leadership (Summer 2011)
Professor: Marilyn Amey
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This class explored educational leadership from a variety of perspectives. The class was structured through online discussions, written assignments, and formal essays/case studies to determine their stance on certain educational leadership perspectives and philosophies. Attached below is an example of my personal education leadership philosophy paper. The paper listed below allowed to me to comprehend what strengths, weaknesses, and collaborative strategies have to go in to running a successful organization and community.
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TE 846 Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners (Fall 2011)
Professor: Laurel Disney
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This challenging class focused on numerous forms of literacy that teachers can use in the classroom to make sure that effective instruction is taking place on a regular basis. Reading, writing, listening, and phonemic strategies were discussed in this class and how effective each particular literacy strategy is the educational public. In this class I had to implement numerous literacy strategies and assessments with actual students that I have taught and make my own personal judgments as to how each assessment worked with each particular student in the classroom. Attached below is an artifact that explains how certain assessments can be administered, what the strengths and weaknesses of each assessment are, breaksdown in lesson form what type of lesson I taught to my students in which I tested certain literacy strategies on.
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EAD 864 Adult Career Development (Spring 2012)
Professor: Steven Weiland
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This class focuses on the development of the human and the numerous life cycles they go through and develop their own personalized form of inquiry. The class used videos, articles, journals and formal essays to assess knowledge of the content. The class was built on using these works to formulate a series of persuasive essays which explained how the individual creates goals that are meaningful and and satisfying. Below is an example of one of the essays written in the course and how the individual has to be able to adapt to new environments, people, and situations. The artifact exclaims the importance and relevance of teaching practices, while never forgetting of what background/culture a person is brought up on and raised in.
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ED 800 Concepts Educational Inquiry (Summer 2012)
Professor: Steven Weiland
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The class focused on education's purposes, traditions, and reoccurring problems. The class used essays, readings, and class discussion forums to elaborate on the learning in the course and how education affects us all in some way shape or form. The essay example listed below argues how education has to be tested by the learner in to make sure that certain educational "truths" are indeed truthful. The class challenged preconceived ideas on education and had me support multiple viewpoints through the construction of various essays.
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KIN 855 Psychosocial Basis of Coaching (Fall 2012)
Professor: Marty Ewing
This extremely challenging yet exciting class focused on the importance of coaching and being able to recognize and adjust their coaching styles based on psychological factors, social environments, and physical tools of their athletes. The class used a lecture based format followed by interactive groups discussions. Once group discussions took place, formative assessments followed each unit. The class taught me and introduced me to various coaching pedagogies, strategies, and methods. Being a current coach, this class was opened the door to effective coaching practices which entailed the complete athlete. The artifact listed below is an applied activity assignment in which I constructed a month long practice routine complete with daily goals, written out demonstrations, and areas of focus for each day of practice. This particular activity helped me learn as a coach that each skill, practice, or combination of skills must be broken down and analyzed to ensure assimilation of the skill for the athlete.
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ED 870 Capstone Seminar ( Spring 2013)
Professor: Matthew Koehler
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In this extremely rewarding class I had to be able to create a functioning web-site full of old artifacts of work. The class tied together and bridged past experiences with current ones which ranged from Kineseology classes to Educational Leadership classes. The class was built upon valuable class feedback, projective essays, and philosophy papers in education. The class challenged your status on certain educational technologies and had us understand through collaborative pursuits. The one main artifact from this class is what you have seen thus far with the online portfolio of work.