Flower Darby

Director, Teaching for Student Success, Northern Arizona University

Flower Darby is passionate about increasing student success through engaging, innovative teaching approaches and effective instructional design. As a faculty member and director of teaching for student success at Northern Arizona University, Darby designs in-person, online, and blended classes that support students in their learning. She has taught at NAU for more than 24 years in a range of areas, from English literature to educational technology to dance to Pilates. She loves to apply effective teaching and learning principles across the disciplines both in her classes and in those of the faculty she supports at NAU. Darby is the author, with James M. Lang, of Small Teaching Online (Jossey-Bass, 2019).

Last Updated: 05-26-2020

- Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Seminar - Live, Online Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Increasing Student Engagement, Persistence, and Success Online Using Emotion Science
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Emotions are strongly linked to how we pay attention, focus, engage, remember, and learn. This online seminar will present practical strategies for putting the power of emotions to work in online classes to help capture and hold students’ attention, better engage students in their learning, and ultimately help them persist and succeed.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Collaborative Learning Approaches that Support Neurodiverse Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Explore practical strategies to plan group tasks so that our neurodiverse learners can successfully contribute to collaborative learning activities.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Build International Student Success with Intercultural Awareness
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Examine the three primary worldviews and cultural dimensions and increase your intercultural savvy. This increased awareness will help you teach in ways that better include and support culturally diverse students to improve your teaching effectiveness and further your students' success.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Grading Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Rigor
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Increase student motivation, produce higher-quality student work, and encourage student responsibility and academic integrity, all while making assessment less stressful for students and simplifying the grading process for themselves.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- 8 Small Teaching Strategies that Deliver Big Results to Engage Online Students and Improve Learning
- $207.90 – $347.90
- Online courses present unique challenges for both students and faculty. Small teaching can be the answer to those problems. Small online teaching strategies are minor adjustments to class design and teaching, things that are feasible in terms of the minimum amount of time required and that create little to no grading burden.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Help Online Students Develop Autonomy and Take More Responsibility for Their Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Research shows that in order to be successful in online classes, students need to be able to manage their time, motivate themselves to work on schedule, and seek help when needed, among other executive functioning skills. One major online learning challenge occurs because many online students are still developing these life skills.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Become a Better Online Instructor?
- $69.30 – $139.30
- Many who teach online find it less satisfying than teaching in person. This may be due to the lack of in-person interactions or not physically being there for the aha moments your students create.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Guide Online Learning By Engaging with Students?
- $69.30 – $139.30
- Despite the efforts of excellent online instructors, there's still a widespread misperception among faculty that online classes are like slow cookers: set and forget. However, neglecting interaction with online students eliminates the best chance of actually teaching them online, of guiding their learning, and helping them make new meaning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Use Technology to Foster the Emotional Processing of Course Content?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- It is becoming more and more important to actively stimulate and engage the emotional responses of students to help them learn deeply and meaningfully. The intentional application of technology can capture an interaction with the content to develop students emotional responses to content which in turn, fosters deeper understanding and learning of important concepts and ideas.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- What Behavioral Changes Can I Make to Inspire Enthusiasm in My Classroom?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Explore the phenomena of emotional contagion and affective crossover, both rooted in the emerging science of emotion, to develop techniques that enable faculty to inspire students, foster enthusiasm, and motivate learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can I Engage the Emotions of My Students to Maximize Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Recent research shows that emotions have a strong impact on cognition. Instead of excluding emotion from the classroom, instructors would do well to acknowledge and take advantage of the impact emotions have on students ability to learn new material. Drawing on a proposed addition of Emotional Presence to the Community of Inquiry Framework, examine why and how emotions can increase learning and retention.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Do I Align Learning Objectives with Technology Using Backward Design?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Learn how to peel back the layers of your teaching challenges and work backwards from your learning objectives to your choice of technology solutions.
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