Anne Nuttall
Master of Arts in Education Student
MSU Coursework
TE 846- Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners
TE 861B- Inquiry, Nature of Science, and Science Teaching
ED 800- Concepts of Educational Inquiry
TE 848- Writing Assessment and Instruction
CEP 840- Policies, Practices, and Perspectives in Special Education
TE 842- Elementary Reading Assessment and Instruction
The Internship Year

TE 801- Professional Roles and Teaching Practice I​
TE 802- Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice I​
​Instructor: Maria Protacio
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While taking this course, I was able to challenge some of my own ideas about how different readers learn and encounter difficulties. This course was a comprehensive look at the different elements of teaching reading, from fluency to vocabulary to comprehension. Additional study in the area of teaching reading and understanding how readers learn is always beneficial.

My coursework sample for this class is a case-study look at a student in my sixth grade class that I was working on a vocabulary study with.
​Instructor: Steven Weiland
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This introductory course to the MAED program asks students to challenge their beliefs about education and the education system in our country. It takes a look back at some of the historical aspects of teaching and learning in the United States, and ends by looking forward to where technology is taking learning in our classrooms and our own lives.

An aspect of this course that I enjoyed was it was not just about yourself as an educator, but yourself as a learner. It asked you to look at your own beliefs and experiences, as well as create deeper inquiries into some of the educational themes presented in the course.

My coursework sample is a final paper I wrote looking at how I use educational inquiry in my own life.
​Instructor: Meghan Block
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A desire to create a more data driven reading classroom led me to sign up for this course. I wanted to make sure my reading instruction was targeted at exactly what students in my classroom needed by correctly using reading assessments.

This course ended up being exactly what I was looking for. A large variety of assessments were presented and we examined pro's and con's to each. A large portion of the course was also conducting our own research into an aspect of our reading instruction that we wanted to improve.
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The coursework sample I included is a look at how my reading beliefs and practices evolved over the length of this course.
​Instructor: Carol Sue Englert
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In order to better accommodate special education students in my classroom, I signed up for CEP 840 in the summer of 2012. This course introduced me to how I can use assistive technology (AT) in the classroom to benefit my students. Since I had very little experience with this before, I have begun applying my new knowledge to my classroom already.

This course also focused on understanding more of the legal IEP and 504 processes that special education teachers use. Although I am not responsible for writing IEP's in my job, I found it useful to have a better understanding of what goes into writing and creating these documents.

The coursework sample is my web portfolio I created to showcase learning in this course.
​Instructor: Anne Heintz
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In this course, students learned about teaching writing through the approach of writing genres. What this means is that students and teachers need to understand that there are many different kinds of writing genres that students need to understand. Students learn best by first understanding the characteristics of various genres, and then studying samples of the genre, before finally tackling writing within the genre.

My coursework sample for this course is a ten-day unit on the genre of poetry that I researched and created for my sixth grade classroom, but it can be very easily adapted to any grade level.
​Instructor: Dawnmarie Ezzo
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In my current position, I am the primary science teacher so I took this course to assist my teaching and planning of science. I found this class to be an excellent blend of science knowledge and science pedagogy. While in the process of learning more about teaching science, I also gained a lot of knowledge about science ideas. It renewed my desire to improve my teaching of inquiry based science and gave me a lot of support while designing new science units that incorporated more elements of student inquiry.

My coursework sample for this class is a look at part of an inquiry based science unit on plate tectonics. I was very pleased with the success of this re-vamped unit and will be using it again in the future.
My internship year took place in 2009-2010 at Pinecrest Elementary in the East Lansing Public School District. I student taught in a second grade classroom of 22 students. My internship was an exciting, fun, and valuable learning experience. Over the course of the year I took on lead teaching in all subject areas gradually until I was lead teaching all subjects for the second half of the school year. With three other MSU interns also placed at Pinecrest Elementary, I spent time team teaching with other interns, reflected and revised lessons, and grew more as an educator and a student than I thought was possible in a mere year. At the end of the internship I was prepared and ready to tackle my first full-time teaching job.

The course titles above are linked to samples of work I created for master's coursework during the internship. These lesson plans are representative of each of the major teaching areas: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies.
ED 870- Capstone Seminar
​Instructors: Matthew J. Koehler, Andrea Zellner, Josh Rosenberg
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This course was the final capstone course in the MAED program. Keeping with the idea that a strong educator is a reflective educator, this course serves as a reflection, or look back, at the MAED program.

This reflection is accomplished through the writing of several synthesis essays on learning through the duration of the program, as well as the creation of a portfolio to showcase growth as a teacher/learner. This website is the result of that effort.