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Active and Engaged Students

Active and Engaged Students Training Courses

Get training to improve and increase active and engaged students in your classroom. Our course catalog gives you the strategies you need for success.

- Active and Engaged Students, Enrichment Courses, Faculty, Student Engagement
- Take Note: Strategies to Develop Student Note-Taking Skills
- $199.00
- Take a deep dive into the strategies you can use to make students better note-takers. Complete Take Note: Strategies to Develop Student Note-Taking Skills, and you’ll have the knowledge and tools to make a real impact on class preparation, exam performance, and student satisfaction!
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- Active and Engaged Students, Enrichment Courses, Faculty, Online Student Engagement, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Higher-Order Learning
- $199.00
- For faculty seeking guidance on shifting the focus from classroom learning to learning beyond college, this Magna Online Course provides practical strategies from experienced educators that will shift your students into a higher level of thinking and help them become lifelong learners.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Use the First Day to Set the Tone for a Semester of Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor delivers meaningful, teacher-tested activities for the first day of class, that can easily be integrated into any course, which maximize the interest, investment, and interaction for students for the rest of the semester.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Structure Class Discussions to Maximize Student Engagement?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who are looking to improve the quality of class discussions, this 20-Minute Mentor provides a three-step process for structuring discussions to increase participation and student engagement.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Courses, Online Student Engagement, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Higher-Order Learning
- $329.00
- For faculty seeking guidance on shifting the focus from classroom learning to learning beyond college, this Magna Online Course provides practical strategies from experienced educators that will shift your students into a higher level of thinking and help them become lifelong learners.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Reach and Teach Struggling Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For teachers whose students are struggling to keep up with course content, pace, and assignments, this 20-Minute Mentor provides effective strategies for engaging students, assessing progress and comprehension, and promoting a growth mindset.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Learning Path, Teaching Professor Conference On-Demand
- Teaching Professor Conference 2021 On-Demand: Student Engagement
- $99.00
- This program invites enthusiasm and participation in learning through focusing on the behavioral, emotional, and cognitive dimensions of student engagement.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Develop Opportunity-minded Learners?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor assists instructors in best preparing their students for a meaningful career post-graduation through implementation of numerous methods that foster skills of opportunity-identification and huntfulness.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can Understanding Group Dynamics Lead to Better Group Work?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For educators who are looking to maximize productivity and success in their student group work, this 20-Minute Mentor explores free resources that benefit group dynamics and can be implemented into your classroom to ultimately improve successful group work.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- On-the-fly Assessment Strategies for the Active Learning Classroom 
- $0.00 – $697.00
- If you are hoping to assess student learning in real time in order to improve learning outcomes and student engagement, this online seminar offers more than 10 specific techniques for doing so, explained in detail, with examples of how to use each in the classroom.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Engaging College Students Using Active Learning Techniques
- $0.00 – $197.00
- For faculty and teachers in any modality, this free Magna Online Seminar will guide you in engaging college students at a deeper, more cognitive level while learning the barriers to learning and how to effectively overcome them.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Have you ever had difficulty getting students to complete required readings? Is it a challenge to get them to think more critically about the content? This Magna Online Seminar will introduce four methods for increasing your students’ engagement with course readings. Each method will be explored in detail, and all materials will be supplied for you to use these activities with your own classes.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Improve Participation in College Classrooms: How to Create a Discussion Strategy that Will Increase Student Learning and Engagement
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Gain insights into what keeps students from participating in a discussion—and how to overcome those barriers. Explore strategies you can use to better structure each discussion for increased student involvement.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Wake Them Up! Engaging Students in the 21st Century Classroom
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Learn strategies to help you achieve performance targets while also restoring student engagement through a variety of practical, actionable teaching techniques.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Facilitate Deep Learning and Student Engagement through Socratic Questioning
- $29.00 – $697.00
- You'll view and analyze effective and ineffective examples of Socratic questioning, so you can continue to support student learning through useful questioning techniques and avoid questions that stifle student inquiry and thinking.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Creating Critical Thinkers in the Information Age
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Learn to be more mindful of how to critically access information. You will gain a toolbox of skills to apply to your own information use as well as that of your students.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Strategies for Making Lectures More Active, Engaging, and Meaningful
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Participants will learn a series of low-risk, very easy to implement strategies, tips, and tools that they can implement to make their lectures more student-centered and engaging in order to promote higher level learning.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Hacking Multimedia for Effective Learning
- $29.00 – $697.00
- No matter your familiarity with multimedia, you will leave this Magna Online Seminar knowing how to choose and integrate media effectively into your courses.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Engage and Empower Students by Using Wikipedia
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar offers a glimpse into how Wikipedia can empower students to share their knowledge with the world around them. Through real-life strategies and helpful background information, this seminar shows you how to use a tool you already understand in a new way to increase student engagement, boost critical thinking, and improve information literacy.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Motivating and Engaging Generation Z Learners
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar will help you motivate, engage, and connect with the students and learners that inhabit the environments in which you teach and lead.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Strategies for Enhancing Engagement and Collaboration in Large Online Courses
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Explore essential topics including strategies for building a cohesive online learning community, increasing faculty online presence, and getting students actively engaged in learning. This Magna Online Seminar will also address technology for online communication, collaboration, and engagement.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Engage Early, Build Trust, and Gain Student Retention and Success
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar explores swift trust, its benefits, and methods of building it within any course (face-to-face and online).
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Improve Academic Lectures with TED Talk Principles: Connect, Convey, Communicate
- $29.00 – $697.00
- For faculty who struggle with engaging content delivery, this Magna Online Seminar gives specific, practical steps to add enthusiasm and excitement to lectures and presentations.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Increase Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Visual Literacy with Graphic Novels
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Discover how changing instruction from using traditional text to adding graphic novel(s) can open communication with different student groups and also develop skills, such as visual literacy, in all students.
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