Category: 20-Minute Mentors
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
How Should We Measure Teaching Effectiveness?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are the most common tools for measuring instructor effectiveness. However, there is a large and growing literature documenting some of the major problems with SETs. These findings have motivated a national conversation about measurement of instructor effectiveness and the meaningfulness of statistical data collected from student evaluations.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
How Can Pure Heart Leadership Build Authenticity and Create Engaged and Empowered Teams?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Pure Heart Leadership is a leadership approach, blending the psychology theories of Car Rogers, Albert Bandura, and Abraham Maslow, that encourages an authentic leadership while recognizing the individuality and strengths of leaders. This 20-Minute Mentor provides you with everything you need to know about this unique approach to leadership, led by the expert who developed this method.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
How Do I Build Trust with a Personal Users’ Guide?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-Minute Mentor, you will learn how to develop your own personal users' guide, which is an explanation of how to successfully work with you. This guide allows you to create a direct method for effective communication and the ability to share key information about what helps you to be an effective professional.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
How Do I Infuse Equity into Any Online Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- What does equity look like in the online classroom? This session will explore what it means to teach equitably and identifies five equitable practices that you can incorporate into your online courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Student Engagement
What Do Students Expect from Online Courses?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Asking the right questions can be just as important as getting the right answers. This is particularly important when it comes to designing for the online student. Learn how you can create a better online course experience. This pointed and practical session will show you how to meet online students desires without sacrificing your standards.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
How Can I Set Time Management Priorities in Online Teaching?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Faculty need efficient instruction practices when teaching online. Learn proven time management practices for your online courses. As a result, you will do a better job of providing feedback and achieving instructional priorities without spending all of your time in front of the computer.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
How Can I Enhance the Impact of Feedback in Online Classes?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Feedback is a key element in the learning process. Discover multiple feedback strategies that can grab students' attention, help them learn from their mistakes, and upgrade your online feedback, making it more specific, timely, and effective.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Make My Exams More about Learning, Less about Grades?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn how you can transform exams into enhanced opportunities for student learning with practical solutions to the three core problems with exams today. Making exams better suit your learning goals requires student participation at every step of the process. Your presenter, Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D., shares real-world, tested guidelines for integrating student input.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Is the Best Way to Grade Participation?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- You know how essential it is for students to be active participants in their education. But how do you grade them on it? In this program, you'll learn an overview of what not to do when grading participation, activities worth doing, how to do them, and how to evaluate your own process.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Specific Student Populations
What Learning Activities Help Student Veterans Succeed?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn practical techniques you can implement immediately to help student veterans succeed. Techniques include understanding the differences between military and academic decision making, as well as how to teach student veterans how to reflect and write for an academic environment.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Teach Critical Reflection in STEM Courses?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Teaching critical reflection skills in STEM courses helps develop professionals who can think, analyze, reason, solve problems creatively, and communicate. While some may be hesitant about teaching these skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses, thats where students and society can reap multiple benefits from critical reflection. Learn how to incorporate these skills in your STEM courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Specific Student Populations
How Do I Include Introverts in Class Discussions?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Introverted students can find themselves at a disadvantage in the contemporary college classroom. Learn effective teaching strategies to engage introverted students in class discussions and how to guide them beyond their comfort zones.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Are Five Tips for Writing Effective Learning Outcomes?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Developing a clear understanding of where you want your course to go and what your students will learn is essential for faculty. By articulating your pedagogical goals, you will clarify your practices and take both your teaching and your students to the next level.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can Rubrics Make Grading Easier and Faster?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Rubrics help you develop a better grading system, one that delivers fair results, helps students learn, and makes effective use of your time. In this program, you will get examples of the three basic formats for rubrics and explore seven key recommendations developed to help you transform the grading process.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Make the Activities in My Course More Inclusive?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Students dealing with physical, cognitive, and other barriers to learning might not be able to participate fully in some activities because of their challenges. This fast and focused session will show you a practical approach to making accommodations and promoting equitable opportunity for learning and engagement for all your students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
How Do I Set Students up for Success in Online Courses?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Beginnings matter, whether you're teaching students face-to-face or online. Find out how you can make the most of online course introductions. In this fast and focused session, you'll discover how you can transform course introductions from ho-hum exercises in housekeeping into time-saving, inspirational new beginnings.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Use Discussion to Facilitate Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Focused, energizing classroom discussions that involve everyone are what higher education instructors dream of. Too bad they don't just happen. But you can learn the careful planning and structuring it takes to make them happen. We show you how to structure and plan classroom discussions to maximize student engagement, student participation, and learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Management, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
What are the Communication ‘Musts’ in an Online Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Establishing effective communication in online classes can be challenging. We show you how to use technology to create an effective online learning environment. You will learn five essential steps to enhance your online communication.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Is Blended Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Blended learning, which combines face-to-face classroom instruction with supervised online activities, is one of the hottest topics in higher education today. Blended learning is here to stay. Learn how to take advantage of online technology to better your students learning experience and improve your instruction. Find out how you can fuse the best of traditional techniques and cutting-edge online technology.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Do I Give Feedback that Improves Student Writing?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Trying to teach students to improve their writing can be like trying to teach cats to fetch: Demonstrate all you want, encourage all you want, implore all you want—you're apt to be met with nothing but blinks. We share seven novel feedback techniques that will motivate your students and drive real improvement in their writing.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Do I Create a Climate for Learning in My Classroom?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- We've all encountered toxic learning environments—apathetic students, disillusioned faculty, an entire roomful of people waiting for class to just end, already. Keeping the classroom climate positive is the responsibility of both sides. Learn valuable concepts you can put to work right away in every class.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Do I Discuss Academic Integrity During the First Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- All faculty members have students who cheat in their classrooms. Should our primary response to classroom cheating be prevention, punishment, or indifference? With 11 pages of supplemental material, we explain how a developmental approach can ensure that all your students stay on the track to ethical academic success.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Do I Get Students to Read Their Assignments Before Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Even though many faculty members routinely spell out course requirements in syllabi and give announcements and reminders, students continue to come to class unprepared. We provide several dynamic strategies that you can use to help students learn the value of reading.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Do I Get More Students to Participate in Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- A limited number of students make the majority of contributions in your classroom today. Although getting more students to participate is challenging, the good news is that it can be done, and it doesn't have to involve such tactics as cold calling on students or resorting to a points system. We describe 18 strategies that work and show how to get students to participate in class.
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