KIN 854 Sport Law for Administrators
Spring 2012
Instructor: Dr. Rick Atkinson
In this course I learned the responsibilities associated with providing and maintaining educationally sound athletic programs for amateur athletes. In detail I learned the obligations of those who are responsible for managing the risks associated with participation in physical activities including the consequences of failing to protect the welfare of individuals who participate in private and public programs. My studies focused on a wide range of legal topics such as negligence, supervision and corporal punishment to contracts, termination of employees, due process, and the abuse of power. Understanding and accounting for these vital issues and many more are critical to coaches and program planners in conducting both private and public youth sports programs.
Instructor: Dr. Rick Atkinson
In this course I learned the responsibilities associated with providing and maintaining educationally sound athletic programs for amateur athletes. In detail I learned the obligations of those who are responsible for managing the risks associated with participation in physical activities including the consequences of failing to protect the welfare of individuals who participate in private and public programs. My studies focused on a wide range of legal topics such as negligence, supervision and corporal punishment to contracts, termination of employees, due process, and the abuse of power. Understanding and accounting for these vital issues and many more are critical to coaches and program planners in conducting both private and public youth sports programs.
EAD 860 Concepts of a Learning Society
Summer 2012
Instructors: Dr. Steven Weiland and Graham McKeague
“The Learning Society” describes recent developments in education across the life span of individuals and helps to guide institutions and individuals worldwide in their educational goals, activities, and plans for the future. The concept refers to a complex global configuration of activities and possibilities. I learned about the famous educational leader and innovator Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago and his book The Learning Society (1968). He features the classical Greek Polis, or the ideal of an educated citizenry according to ideals that are associated with the liberal arts and sciences. He was concerned about the narrowing of education by the demands of the workplace and the professions. I was also introduced to and studied business leaders and theorists of work and economic and technological organizations that are urging participation in the learning society based on a very different understanding of what the phrase means. Others propose individual growth as the cornerstone of the learning society, seeing it as an entitlement in the “post-industrial” world. Still others focus on the learning society as the domain in which technology will provide the essential format for education in schools and at work, and for learning everywhere else as well.
Instructors: Dr. Steven Weiland and Graham McKeague
“The Learning Society” describes recent developments in education across the life span of individuals and helps to guide institutions and individuals worldwide in their educational goals, activities, and plans for the future. The concept refers to a complex global configuration of activities and possibilities. I learned about the famous educational leader and innovator Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago and his book The Learning Society (1968). He features the classical Greek Polis, or the ideal of an educated citizenry according to ideals that are associated with the liberal arts and sciences. He was concerned about the narrowing of education by the demands of the workplace and the professions. I was also introduced to and studied business leaders and theorists of work and economic and technological organizations that are urging participation in the learning society based on a very different understanding of what the phrase means. Others propose individual growth as the cornerstone of the learning society, seeing it as an entitlement in the “post-industrial” world. Still others focus on the learning society as the domain in which technology will provide the essential format for education in schools and at work, and for learning everywhere else as well.
EAD 867 Case Studies in Educational Leadership
Summer 2012
Instructor: Dr. Marilyn Amey and Dr. E. Jessup Anger
In this course I explored educational leadership from a variety of perspectives. Through my studies I developed a better understanding of leadership in complex educational settings, what it looks like throughout the organization, how it is enacted, and how it is relevant to addressing problems facing educators today. In this case based course, I used cross-disciplinary leadership literature to address contemporary issues and see ways in which leaders can be instrumental in creating organizational change. I also explored my own leadership philosophies and practices as well as the scholarly research into a great many leadership theories and ideas.
Instructor: Dr. Marilyn Amey and Dr. E. Jessup Anger
In this course I explored educational leadership from a variety of perspectives. Through my studies I developed a better understanding of leadership in complex educational settings, what it looks like throughout the organization, how it is enacted, and how it is relevant to addressing problems facing educators today. In this case based course, I used cross-disciplinary leadership literature to address contemporary issues and see ways in which leaders can be instrumental in creating organizational change. I also explored my own leadership philosophies and practices as well as the scholarly research into a great many leadership theories and ideas.
ED 800 Concepts of Educational Inquiry
Fall 2012
Instructor: Dr. Steven Weiland
This course provided me with an opportunity to think and exchange ideas about my beliefs about education and the many forms of inquiry related to it. I explored education’s purposes, traditions, characteristic activities, and its recurring problems and efforts at reform. I explored questions about what is most worth knowing and how are individual, institutional, and social views of schooling and the curriculum reconciled. I was encouraged to question what I want from teaching, and from education outside of schools and beyond the years of formal schooling. My studies helped me to form an evolving view of the conditions of contemporary life and how globalization and new information and communications technologies influence my ideas about education. Through course reading and writing assignments I came to an understanding that the idea that education is a multi-disciplinary and now multi-media endeavor inviting us to understand the nature of teaching and learning.
Instructor: Dr. Steven Weiland
This course provided me with an opportunity to think and exchange ideas about my beliefs about education and the many forms of inquiry related to it. I explored education’s purposes, traditions, characteristic activities, and its recurring problems and efforts at reform. I explored questions about what is most worth knowing and how are individual, institutional, and social views of schooling and the curriculum reconciled. I was encouraged to question what I want from teaching, and from education outside of schools and beyond the years of formal schooling. My studies helped me to form an evolving view of the conditions of contemporary life and how globalization and new information and communications technologies influence my ideas about education. Through course reading and writing assignments I came to an understanding that the idea that education is a multi-disciplinary and now multi-media endeavor inviting us to understand the nature of teaching and learning.
CEP 832 Educating Students with Challenging Behavior
Spring 2013
Instructor: Dr. Vicky Mousouli and Dr. Evelyn R. Oka
I learned positive classroom management strategies useful with "tough to teach" students. I was introduced to and examined various types of behavioral problems that are especially challenging in the classroom including aggressiveness, oppositional behavior, hyperactivity, and social withdrawal, among others. I explored research-based practices that have proven successful in the classroom and applied them to simulated cases using a positive behavior support approach. I also addressed building cooperative working relationships with these students' parents. The course was designed to promote "hands on" and interactive learning; the course project involved application of the course concepts to each participant's classroom practice. The course empowered me with a process for working more effectively with these types of students. In particular, I learned research-based practices for instruction and classroom management for these students and how to develop partnerships with their families.
Instructor: Dr. Vicky Mousouli and Dr. Evelyn R. Oka
I learned positive classroom management strategies useful with "tough to teach" students. I was introduced to and examined various types of behavioral problems that are especially challenging in the classroom including aggressiveness, oppositional behavior, hyperactivity, and social withdrawal, among others. I explored research-based practices that have proven successful in the classroom and applied them to simulated cases using a positive behavior support approach. I also addressed building cooperative working relationships with these students' parents. The course was designed to promote "hands on" and interactive learning; the course project involved application of the course concepts to each participant's classroom practice. The course empowered me with a process for working more effectively with these types of students. In particular, I learned research-based practices for instruction and classroom management for these students and how to develop partnerships with their families.
KIN 856 Physical Bases of Coaching Athletes
Summer 2013
Instructor: Dr. Scott Riewald
This course educated me to the principles of anatomy, physiology, sports medicine, and biomechanics as a foundation for coaching amateur athletes. I studied the anatomical bases of coaching which included the skeletal, muscular, and neuromuscular bases of movement. I also learned specific regions of the body in order to facilitate an understanding of joints, movement, and potential injuries through applied analyses of exercise and performance. My work in the course included a study of the muscular, cardiovascular, respiratory, and thermoregulatory systems of exercise as they related to the demands of various sports. I learned various methods of conditioning that can easily be applied to specific sport settings. The medical bases of coaching covered the prevention, care, and rehabilitation of common sports injuries; and special injuries sports participants . I was introduced to the biomechanical bases of coaching to aid and improve my abilities to analyze the sports skills of the athletes that I coach. As a part of my coursework I developed a nutritional recovery plan for athletes and an exercise program designed to prevent throwing arm injuries in baseball players.
Instructor: Dr. Scott Riewald
This course educated me to the principles of anatomy, physiology, sports medicine, and biomechanics as a foundation for coaching amateur athletes. I studied the anatomical bases of coaching which included the skeletal, muscular, and neuromuscular bases of movement. I also learned specific regions of the body in order to facilitate an understanding of joints, movement, and potential injuries through applied analyses of exercise and performance. My work in the course included a study of the muscular, cardiovascular, respiratory, and thermoregulatory systems of exercise as they related to the demands of various sports. I learned various methods of conditioning that can easily be applied to specific sport settings. The medical bases of coaching covered the prevention, care, and rehabilitation of common sports injuries; and special injuries sports participants . I was introduced to the biomechanical bases of coaching to aid and improve my abilities to analyze the sports skills of the athletes that I coach. As a part of my coursework I developed a nutritional recovery plan for athletes and an exercise program designed to prevent throwing arm injuries in baseball players.
KIN 855 Psychosocial Bases of Coaching Athletes
Fall 2013
Instructor: Dr. Daniel Gould
This course provided me with the sociological, psychological, philosophical, developmental, and instructional principles for coaching athletes in competitive sports. I participated in interactive small group exercises designed to apply this information to coaching. I actively participated in group work so that direct application and unique issues could be identified and discussed among peers. The philosophical area of the course facilitated the development of my own philosophy given the age group one is coaching. I focused my work on the Issues associated with coaching elementary through high school athletes. I studied the psychology of performance through discussion of motivation, anxiety, confidence, and coping strategies. I pondered the influence of society on our conduct of sport and examined how I might help to socialize youth into sport and out of sport. Additionally, I examined the socialization of athletes through sport, including the issues of aggression and developing good sports.
Instructor: Dr. Daniel Gould
This course provided me with the sociological, psychological, philosophical, developmental, and instructional principles for coaching athletes in competitive sports. I participated in interactive small group exercises designed to apply this information to coaching. I actively participated in group work so that direct application and unique issues could be identified and discussed among peers. The philosophical area of the course facilitated the development of my own philosophy given the age group one is coaching. I focused my work on the Issues associated with coaching elementary through high school athletes. I studied the psychology of performance through discussion of motivation, anxiety, confidence, and coping strategies. I pondered the influence of society on our conduct of sport and examined how I might help to socialize youth into sport and out of sport. Additionally, I examined the socialization of athletes through sport, including the issues of aggression and developing good sports.
EAD 877 Program Planning and Evaluation in Postsecondary Contexts
Spring 2014
Instructor: Dr. William Arnold
In this course I studied program planning and evaluation as both a field of practice and inquiry. I learned that program planning represents an activity which educators often find themselves engaged in. Through participating in this course, I was able to develop: knowledge of the research and scholarship that focused on academic program planning and evaluation in postsecondary education; skill in the planning, design, and development of educational and training programs for postsecondary education contexts and a critical awareness and understanding of the social and political dimensions of academic program planning. My decisions and tasks as a program planner are grounded in particular conceptual, theoretical, social, cultural, and political frameworks that serve to shape and influence the ways in which my decisions and tasks are approached and the eventual nature of programs developed and delivered. As a final project I designed, developed, and planned a parent education program for recreational sports that could also be adapted to competitive youth sports environments.
Instructor: Dr. William Arnold
In this course I studied program planning and evaluation as both a field of practice and inquiry. I learned that program planning represents an activity which educators often find themselves engaged in. Through participating in this course, I was able to develop: knowledge of the research and scholarship that focused on academic program planning and evaluation in postsecondary education; skill in the planning, design, and development of educational and training programs for postsecondary education contexts and a critical awareness and understanding of the social and political dimensions of academic program planning. My decisions and tasks as a program planner are grounded in particular conceptual, theoretical, social, cultural, and political frameworks that serve to shape and influence the ways in which my decisions and tasks are approached and the eventual nature of programs developed and delivered. As a final project I designed, developed, and planned a parent education program for recreational sports that could also be adapted to competitive youth sports environments.
ED 870 Capstone Seminar
Summer 2014
Instructor: Dr. Matthew Koehler
The Capstone Seminar engaged me to discuss and reflect upon my learning experiences in the Master of Arts in Education program. I created a Web-based portfolio that presents a well-organized representation of my work and thinking in the program. I participated in online discussions with other students in the seminar and learned about their developing portfolios. As the culmination of my achievement of the Master of Arts in Education degree, this course served as a technological platform of reflection that allowed me to showcase my journey and progress as a student of education. The use of web based technology to create a digital journey of my experiences served as a reminder to me of my achievements at Michigan State and of where the profession of education can and will continue to grow.
Instructor: Dr. Matthew Koehler
The Capstone Seminar engaged me to discuss and reflect upon my learning experiences in the Master of Arts in Education program. I created a Web-based portfolio that presents a well-organized representation of my work and thinking in the program. I participated in online discussions with other students in the seminar and learned about their developing portfolios. As the culmination of my achievement of the Master of Arts in Education degree, this course served as a technological platform of reflection that allowed me to showcase my journey and progress as a student of education. The use of web based technology to create a digital journey of my experiences served as a reminder to me of my achievements at Michigan State and of where the profession of education can and will continue to grow.
KIN 857 Promoting Positive Youth Development Through Sport
Fall 2014
Instructor: Dr. Daniel Gould
This course will provide me with a professional understanding of the ways I will facilitate positive youth and student-athlete development through my work in sport. Emphasis is placed on specific bases and policy implications for educational athletics whether housed in school or non-school environments. I will explore the emerging youth development literature that focuses on the role of sport and other extracurricular activities play in enhancing positive youth development. My work will include attachment to school and educational aspirations, the development of life skills such as initiative, teamwork, and emotional control, and physical health and development. Possible detrimental effects such as increased alcohol use, burnout, and overuse injuries were also examined. I will study the critical issues in contemporary youth sports such as an overemphasis on winning and outcomes; poor sportsmanship; increased expectations and pressure placed on young athletes; increasing costs; overinvolved parents; talent development; recreational and performance enhancing drug use; and sports specialization. I will also study the policy issues that influence positive youth development through sport.
Instructor: Dr. Daniel Gould
This course will provide me with a professional understanding of the ways I will facilitate positive youth and student-athlete development through my work in sport. Emphasis is placed on specific bases and policy implications for educational athletics whether housed in school or non-school environments. I will explore the emerging youth development literature that focuses on the role of sport and other extracurricular activities play in enhancing positive youth development. My work will include attachment to school and educational aspirations, the development of life skills such as initiative, teamwork, and emotional control, and physical health and development. Possible detrimental effects such as increased alcohol use, burnout, and overuse injuries were also examined. I will study the critical issues in contemporary youth sports such as an overemphasis on winning and outcomes; poor sportsmanship; increased expectations and pressure placed on young athletes; increasing costs; overinvolved parents; talent development; recreational and performance enhancing drug use; and sports specialization. I will also study the policy issues that influence positive youth development through sport.