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Graduate School Portfolio

While this entire website is dedicated to my educational journey, this specific page is a showcase of my work in graduate school at Michigan State University. I broke my showcase into three sections: action research projects, which are items where I engaged in experimenting with my students and reporting back; resources I created - things I made that other educators might find useful or interesting; and videos, where I reflect on or share something I found valuable. Action research is important to me because it contributes to collective educational knowledge. I want to share my resources because I hope those can be of use to other educators. Finally, I included the videos since they are inspirational and aspirational.

Action Research Projects

Female Teacher and Student

MINI WRITING COMMUNITY

This essay is about a research investigation I made into if there is benefit from students writing together. Through this paper you will see my writing skills and strengths in developing content for students who struggle with their own abilities in composing essays.

Neon Spheres

ASK YOURSELF QUESTIONS

This website demonstrates both my ability to build a comprehensive site to support a project, as well as my passion for supporting students in developing their math skills. The research is about if providing students with a list of directional questions could help them solve story problems in math with more ease.

School Library
Serious Boy

INCREASING MOTIVATION

Motivating students can be hard! This is a personal intervention I did with one student to try to help him be more engaged with school. This shows my critical thinking skills and compassion for students who are struggling.

Created Resources

Magazine Stack

INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS WHO THINK DIFFERENTLY

This is a website that I made to help students, their parents, and educators. It is a collection of resources for students with various accommodations and learning differences. I designed all the image buttons on the main page. This artifact demonstrates my organization and tenacity.

Teacher Writing a Formula on a Blackboard

ONLINE MINI-COURSE

This site is an entire unit about factoring trinomials. It is a class that one can sign up for and go through. The site shows my ability to teach information through an online learning system, as well as my ability to create resources for a specific topic.

Chemistry Class

NORMALIZING MINORITIES IN STEM

Many students feel left out of STEM, feeling it is for white men in particular. To promote inclusion in science, I created these cards to show LGBTQ+ folks who made important contributions to science. These cards show my design ability and passion for inclusion.

Classroom Furnitures

Videos

After exploring the importance of creativity in education, I created this video to make a call to fellow educators to include more creative practices in their pedagogies. This video demonstrates my communication skills and passion for supporting the education community.

Since I don't anticipate anyone taking the entire online factoring course from the above section, here is an example video from more than halfway through. This shows my care for accessibility and multi-tasking skills, as I write on the screen and clear it while teaching and recording the instructional video.

All photos on this page credit to Wix

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