Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D.

Parker Palmer and Maryellen Weimer talk about the underpinnings of their approaches to their work as teachers. They discuss the critical role of self-knowledge as a precursor to your work with students as well as why it is the key to growth and development as teachers.  Whether you are a new or experienced faculty member who ended the semester on a high note or a low note, you’ll gain insight, inspiration, and validation from this impassioned conversation.

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When a Teaching Professor blog post about extra credit generated record response, Maryellen Weimer knew the time was right to explore the often-controversial practice of giving students an unplanned opportunity to make up ground lost in earlier exams or assignments. In this special 30-minute online seminar, Extra Credit: An Undeserved Gift or a Second Chance to Learn? she discusses the pros and cons of offering extra credit. This seminar will give you new ways to think about your extra credit policies.

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Exams.docx 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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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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When it comes to classroom participation, research continues to confirm what most faculty members experience each day: A limited number of students make the majority of contributions. 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.

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Many students come to class without having done the assigned reading. Even though many faculty members routinely spell out course requirements in syllabuses and give individual 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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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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The stakes are high when an instructor responds to a student answer that is wrong or just not very good. What a teacher says to a student will influence future class participation and discussions. To increase the chances of student participation, it helps to have a repertoire of strategies to employ. We introduce you to 13 possible strategies and responses that you can use when a student has provided an answer that is wrong or not very good.

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We’ve arranged with some of higher education's leading authorities on the subject of learning improvement to discuss that they believe (and what research often shows) to be the best approaches. When it comes to improving student learning, what works best? Find out their insights in this special 4-pack series of Magna 20 Minute Mentor presentations.

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Discover some of the best tools and techniques to challenge students academically—giving high but attainable expectations in the new 20 Minute Mentor 4-pack Increasing Intellectual Rigor in the Classroom.

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Your syllabus and classroom policies set the tone for your class, but they may not be creating a welcoming learning environment. Learn tips designed to help you use classroom policies to support student engagement and a smooth-running classroom.

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With learner-centered teaching, students take more responsibility for their learning. It’s an approach that focuses a teacher’s attention on what students are doing and deals with learning processes explicitly. We share three strategies to demonstrate approaches that can benefit students and teachers.

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We’ve put together a special collection of Magna 20 Minute Mentor programs to help you reflect on some issues that may be especially relevant as you approach the midway point of the academic year.

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Discover how you can help keep students engaged, encouraged and enrolled in this Magna 20 Minute Mentor 4-pack Teaching Strategies that Improve Retention.

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The Teaching Professor is the lively, highly informative newsletter with a singular purpose: to provide ideas and insight to educators who are passionate about teaching. A source of cutting-edge information and inspiration for over 10,000 educators at universities and colleges worldwide.

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This fast, focused presentation zeroes in on a trio of potential higher education teaching pitfalls … one involving how you teach, one what you teach, and one whom you teach. You’ll come away with ideas you can use right away to avoid problems and create a positive, productive learning environment.

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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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