Category: Course Delivery and Instruction

- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Understanding Group Dynamics Lead to Better Group Work?
- $19.00 – $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, Blended and Flipped Learning, Classroom Climate, Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Digital Library, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, Faculty Support, Legal Concerns, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement, Personal Development, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Supporting Online Faculty, Teaching Strategies, Technology in Online Courses, Technology in the Classroom
- Magna Seminar Series
- $1,297.00
- The Magna Seminar Series is a robust professional development series that is designed to save you time and money while also fueling your faculty with the tips, advice and encouragement they need. All 26 seminars included in this series allow for interactive questions and responses with the speakers, two-week access to each seminar, handouts, teaching materials and more.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Disruptive Innovation Impact STEM Education?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty and teachers, especially in STEM fields, who are looking to shift their teaching mindset from sustaining technologies to disruptive technologies, this 20-Minute Mentor will provide you with expert-guidance on how teaching disruptive technology in a STEM course can help students think more critically.
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- Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Leveraging the Neuroscience of Trauma for Informed Teaching
- $39.00 – $697.00
- For educators who are teaching during stressful times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and recognizing that both their students and they are disrupted by stress and anxiety, this special two-part Magna Online Seminar provides actionable ideas and tools for teaching with a trauma-sensitive approach.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Reimagining STEM Education Through a Humanities Lens
- $39.00 – $697.00
- For STEM educators who are striving to meet student interest in inclusive and meaning-centered education, this Magna Online Seminar provides concrete, evidence-based strategies and a framework for reimagining a STEM education through a humanities lens.
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- Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Teaching in Uncertain Times
- $39.00
- This online seminar is designed for educators who are interested in learning about how they can teach their students despite the presence of trauma. Participants will acquire strategies they can use to help students continue their learning in the middle of this pandemic.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Principles of Effective College Teaching
- $299.00
- This intensive Magna Online Course provides in-depth instruction on the myriad responsibilities of a college teacher. You'll find it an indispensable resource as you prepare to teach.
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- Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Using Brief Interventions to Maximize Student Learning
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn five fundamental principles of human learning and how to incorporate these principles into your current courses to immediately increase learning.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Helping Students Succeed in a Large Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Despite what your nerves might try to tell you, a large class does not have to be a hard class to teach. This seminar covers everything you need to know to adequately prepare for, manage, and engage a large class.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Below the Surface: Strategies for Deep and Lasting Learning
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn how to identify and implement instructional strategies that hold students' attention, bolster retention rates, and lead to deep learning. This seminar gives you the classroom-tested strategies you need to keep your courses engaging and effective.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Choosing and Using Group Activities in the College Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Whether you teach in a traditional classroom or use flipped instruction strategies, group work can work for you. This seminar introduces you to three different group work methodologies and helps you identify which ones are appropriate for your course, your students, and your teaching style.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Connecting with Students in Large-Section Classes
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Large classes are an unpleasant fact of life on many college campuses. The challenge of teaching hundreds of students at a time in a single, lecture-style setting can be daunting. This online seminar, presented by Dr. Anthony Sweat of Brigham Young University, will reveal practical techniques for reaching your pedagogical goals in large classes.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Wake Them Up! Engaging Students in the 21st Century Classroom
- $39.00 – $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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Motivate, Engage, and Inspire: Tips for Teaching Modern Learners
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Identify the teaching methods that work best for modern learners, including several strategies to better engage and motivate your Millennial students. You'll learn the five new Rs: Research, rationale, relaxed, rapport, and research-based methods. Delve in-depth into each R and why each one is critical to helping your modern students succeed.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Facilitate Deep Learning and Student Engagement through Socratic Questioning
- $39.00 – $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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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Building a Tougher Student: Applying the Research on Intellectual Development
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Explore how the way students think and learn has changed, as well as two research-based models and a set of strategies for using these models to build resilience and enhance critical thinking in your classroom.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Teaching to the Core: Ensuring the Success of Professional-Track Students
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn how to set students up for success by employing alternative lessons, using a blended and supportive curriculum, and teaching students individually. You'll review core competencies required by CODA/ACEN and explore strategies for assisting students with different learning challenges.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Four Common Teaching Traps and How to Avoid Them
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn how to identify each of the four most common teaching problems, explore their implications, and understand warning signs and solution. Discover how to recognize misalignment, expert blind spot, content overload, and over-identification.
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- Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Teaching About Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in Secular Studies Classes
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn to create classroom environments that promote academic discussions of faith as a form of personal identity, diversity, belief, motivation, culture-community, privilege, and oppression.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Understanding and Educating Generation Z Students
- $39.00 – $697.00
- You'll explore the beliefs and perspectives of the Generation Z population and how these beliefs and perspectives affect them as college students. Specifically, this seminar addresses how Generation Z students differ from other generations.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Improve Academic Lectures with TED Talk Principles: Connect, Convey, Communicate
- $39.00 – $697.00
- For faculty who struggle with engaging content delivery, How to Improve Academic Lectures with TED Talk Principles: Connect, Convey, Communicate, is a Magna Online Seminar that gives specific, practical steps to add enthusiasm and excitement to lectures and presentations.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Preparing Students for Thoughtful, Ethical Decision Making
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This online seminar addresses ways faculty can provide students with skills to identify and contend with ethical matters in specific disciplines and professions, civic life, and as part of the educational process (including academic integrity and interpersonal interactions). We will also discuss ethical considerations for instructors—particularly those new to the profession—around dilemmas they often encounter, including grading, recommendation letters, and boundaries in interactions with students.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Use Interactive Lecturing as Pedagogy of Engagement
- $39.00 – $697.00
- In recent years, lectures as a pedagogical approach have come under considerable fire. Critics have called lectures boring, obsolete, old-fashioned, overused, and even unfair. The criticisms, however, are often leveled at one type of lecture: the full-session, transmission-model lecture. Still, there is another type of lecture that has tried and true benefits: the interactive lecture.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Practical Ways to Support First-Generation College Students in the College Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- In this seminar, you will learn about the challenges that exist for first-generation college students and the support structures that can help them succeed.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Teaching Underprepared Students to Take Control of Their Learning by Developing Metacognitive Skills
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Metacognition has been strongly linked with improved GPAs, college readiness, and retention; however, faculty are often unaware of how to purposefully instill and foster these abilities in students. This seminar will provide specific strategies to build these necessary competencies.
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- Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Using Humor to Engage Students in the Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- For teaching professors who are faced with student apathy or lack of engagement, this online seminar provides a strategy based on humor that not only increases student engagement, but also contributes to students' improved recall, comprehension, and satisfaction.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Help Students Build Resiliency & Overcome Their Obstacles
- $39.00 – $197.00
- Every year, residential life staff and student affairs counselors see an increasing number of students enter college with some type of psychological problem or mental illness. They are presented with reams of data and survey results highlighting the increased risk and problems this generation of students has to face when going to school.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- 10 Ways to Engage Your Students on the First Day of Class
- $39.00 – $697.00
- If you want to create a first-class learning environment start with the first class. From the very first day—from the moment students walk in the door—you set the tone for the entire semester. You can establish expectations, clarify responsibilities, energize, and engage your students, and create a strong framework for success. We provide you with practical, proven tips for starting your classes off right.
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- Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Classroom Management 102: Working with Difficult Students
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Do the faculty members at your school know how to respond effectively when confronted by uncooperative or even aggressive students? Find out how to successfully manage the full-range of student behavior problems. We use role play scenarios of problematic classroom behaviors to share strategies for responding effectively.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- 9 Ways to Use Class Discussion to Promote Transformation
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Students can't overcome bad habits they don't know they have. We'll show you how to establish a climate of trust in which students can learn to recognize blind spots, gaps, and contradictions in the way they think. We also share techniques to enhance classroom discussion and make it a vehicle for active learning and intellectual development.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Motivating Students: From Apathetic to Inspired
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn ways to tweak your course design and instructional methodology to better engage students and foster accountability. You will explore evidence-based strategies that will help you create a learning environment that increases student motivation, interest, and success. You will finish with the information and tools that you need to connect with—and maybe even inspire—modern learners.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- 10 Strategies for Enhancing Learning in Introductory Courses
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Introductory courses form the foundation of a college education, but students don't like taking them, faculty don't like teaching them, and student achievement and attendance are notoriously low. In this seminar, you'll learn about practical tools you can use to transform these courses from an educational chore to a pathway to student success.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Teaching Unprepared Students: Strategies that Work
- $39.00 – $697.00
- More students are arriving on campus without the tools they need to succeed in college. Learn strategies to help get unprepared students better aligned with the demands of college and embrace accountability and personal responsibility.
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- Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Team-Based Learning: Strategies for Getting Started
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Team-Based Learning, or TBL, helps students develop a deep and enduring understanding of course content. Using these methods, you'll be able to move beyond covering content to helping students use course concepts to solve interesting, significant problems.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Beyond Course Design: Planning for Successful Facilitation
- $39.00 – $697.00
- The curriculum for your online course is finished, but a strong curriculum is only half of the equation. To be successful in online education, you must also pay attention to the manner in which your course is facilitated. We introduce you to Assessing Online Facilitation (AOF) and the carefully-researched structure that makes it such a valuable self assessment and peer evaluation tool.
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- Books, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty
- Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty
- $34.00
- This book is focused on the foundational elements of effective pedagogy and advises faculty, on proven strategies and best practices to take them successfully from the first day of class to the final exam.
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- Books, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty
- Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Teachers
- $34.00
- This book serves as a quick and ready reference as you encounter the challenges of teaching college-level material in the high school classroom. For an AP or IB teacher, there's no better resource.
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- Books, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty
- The College Teacher’s Handbook: A Resource Collection for New Faculty
- $34.00
- The College Teachers Handbook: A Resource Collection for New Faculty provides the essential tools and information that any new teacher in higher education needs to confidently lead a college classroom.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Enrichment for Mid-Career Faculty
- $299.00
- For those who are passionate about teaching, the answer is clear: Get even better. Become even more impactful. Find even more new ways to inspire, enlighten, and transform students. If you're thirsting for new ideas to take your teaching performance to new heights, you'll plenty in the Magna Online Course, Enrichment for Mid-Career Faculty.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Classroom Basics for New Teachers
- $299.00
- Classroom Basics for New Teachers is an essential resource for anyone new (or almost new) to the classroom. It delivers research-based, classroom-tested best practices on the myriad responsibilities and challenges of teaching.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Courses, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Teaching Specific Student Populations
- $299.00
- Aside from a universal aversion to early morning classes, students can hardly be considered a homogeneous group. They're diverse in so many respects—culturally, generationally, in their backgrounds, in their abilities, in their identity. Those differences often bring with them different learning styles and needs. Meeting these students where they're most comfortable, and where they learn best, is something every educator can strive to do.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Subscription, Teaching Strategies
- The Teaching Professor
- From: $19.00 / month
- 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 more than 10,000 educators at universities and colleges worldwide.
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- Magna Commons
- Magna Commons is a subscription-based, on-demand, online, and campus-wide digital library of all of Magna Online Seminars. Suitable for faculty and administrators. Current Subscribers - Log In to View Your Subscription
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- 20-Minute Mentor Commons
- An on-demand digital library of targeted faculty development that offer solutions to common classroom challenges-in just 20 minutes! A subscription gives your entire campus access to all 20-Minute Mentor programs. Current Subscribers - Log In to View Your Subscription
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- Monday Morning Mentor
- $899.00
- Monday Morning Mentor delivers one of our popular Magna 20-Minute Mentor online programs each week - 16 in the fall and 16 in the spring.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- Should I Encourage Experiential Learning During Class? How?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Lectures are not effective for all students. Help all your students make the most of their education by adding experiential learning to your instructional toolkit. Find out how you can bring this high-impact educational practice into your classroom and increase student engagement in learning with this 20 Minute Mentor.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Teach Critical Reflection in STEM Courses?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations
- How Do I Include Introverts in Class Discussions?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Effectively Teach Unprepared Students?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn principles and practices you can implement immediately to provide learning opportunities for unprepared students and motivate them to become engaged learners. This program takes a broad-spectrum approach, addressing motivation, responsibility, and communication practices and provides tested techniques to address these key issues.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Use Discussion to Facilitate Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Incorporate a Group Poster Session into my Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to successfully implement group poster sessions into your classroom. Get the tools and information you need to incorporate this impactful learning tool into your classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Enhance Class Using Story, Popular Media and Objects?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Committed educators are always looking for dynamic ways to grab and hold their students attention, but we do more than list in-class activities. This practical and focused session is grounded in learning theory, such as idea-based, brain-based and situated learning, to give you a framework for ongoing exploration and innovation.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Use Icebreakers to Connect with Students?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- You know teaching and learning are more effective when students are motivated. One of the keys to motivating students is finding out what makes them tick, and the sooner you can do that, the better. Learn how you can use class openings to forge connections with college students through introductory surveys, icebreakers, and more.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Capture Students’ Interest in the First 5 Minutes?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- We show you how to make the most of that first meeting with your students. Teaching and learning depend on building and sustaining student interest and strong course openings get it all started. You learn to draft your own enthusiasm statement to use in your own courses to draw students into the subject matter.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Help Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Developing critical thinking skills is the real business of higher education—teaching students to analyze and dissect every idea, ruminate about it, and arrive at thoughtful, informed opinions. This fast, focused program will show you how to incorporate active learning components into every aspect of your courses, from lectures to labs, from writing assignments to tests.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Are the Three Worst Mistakes to Make in the Classroom?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Discuss Academic Integrity During the First Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What if a Student Asks a Question I Can’t Answer?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to respond to even the toughest questions that students pose with confidence and credibility. We help you develop a reliable strategy for fielding students questions without losing your cool or undermining your credibility.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, old-archived
- Should I Take Attendance?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Trying to make a decision about taking attendance can quickly generate more questions than answers. We discuss how to make effective attendance decisions that do not result in creating a negative perception of you as a teacher. Explore giving students a reason to come to class rather than forcing them to attend and learn different techniques for taking attendance that won't be viewed negatively by students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Should I Respond to Wrong (or Not Very Good) Answers?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Assign Students to Groups?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Despite the widespread acceptance and demonstrated success of group learning, many teachers do not know how to create small groups effectively. Learn key factors involved in successfully facilitating group learning and the benefits of group work.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Post-Exam Reviews Become a Powerful Teaching Strategy?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- The benefits of a thoughtfully designed and learning-oriented post-exam review session is a win- win for both faculty and students. When post-exam review is implemented with concepts critical to student learning, students are given the opportunity for metacognition to identify both strengths and gaps in knowledge, explore content to apply classroom knowledge, and differentiate correct from incorrect thinking.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Teach Soft Skills to Better Prepare Students for the Workplace?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This Magna 20-Minute Mentor discusses core power skills which include: teamwork, communication, positive attitude, critical thinking, professionalism, and time management. You'll also learn a four phase approach to integrating soft-skill education into a curriculum and how to design related activities to unleash the full potential of your students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This program explains, through the lens of the literature, how the brain processes information, and identifies why microactivities are a great method of formative assessment to check in with your students learning and move information closer to long-term memory.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Promoting Academic Integrity Improve Learning Outcomes for Students?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, you'll come away with expert strategies from a world-renowned teaching and learning specialist that will move students toward becoming effective learners with integrity, allowing them to pursue understanding, learn from failures, and continue learning for life.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Brain-Based Techniques Can I Use to Engage Students During Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This program demonstrates several techniques to engage student brains in learning. All can be incorporated into either a traditional 50-minute or a longer class period. Since each students brain is unique and may learn in different ways, the presenters offer specific techniques that help vary the learning experience during a typical classroom time frame.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Technology in the Classroom
- How Can I Use Technology to Foster the Emotional Processing of Course Content?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- What Behavioral Changes Can I Make to Inspire Enthusiasm in My Classroom?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What 5 Play-based Activities Can I Use to Create an Active, Learning-centered Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This informative program brings to life college classroom-tested games that work to build student rapport, inject new life into lecture-heavy teaching, and increase success rates among students.
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- How Can I Promote Enrollment and Retention in Challenging Courses that Motivate Instead of Frustrate?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- When it comes to gatekeeper courses, there are often cases where expectations and reality don't match, and fears, rumors, and beliefs about hard courses and programs discourage students and limit enrollment. By creating student buy-in and ensuring students understand that you have their best interests at heart, you can help increase their satisfaction with their college experience and influence them to move along in their academic program, resulting in positive outcomes for students, teachers, and institutions.
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- How Can I Manage the Disconnect Between Faculty and Student Perceptions of Rigor to Increase Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- You can't dispel students misperceptions about difficult coursework if you're unaware of what these misperceptions are. This program discusses common mismatched definitions of rigor and strategies for bridging the divide between teacher definitions and student definitions. By leveraging these strategies, you'll be better able to improve students motivation and build stronger classroom connections.
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- What is Gamification and How Can it Promote a Growth Mindset?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Gamification uses gaming elements and mechanics in a nongame context—and it's really simple to implement if you know where to start.
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- How Can Livestreaming Bring New Life to My Teaching?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Livestreaming can reenergize teaching, research, projects, departments and units, and institutions. Younger generations especially crave the raw, authentic viewpoints that livestreaming provides, and all audiences like the behind-the-scenes and insider access that going live enables.
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- How Can I Inspire Creative Confidence in the Classroom?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn a step-by-step method for cultivating your students creativity in any subject area while deepening their engagement with course content and strengthening their presentation skills. You'll learn how to use 21st-century approaches and techniques, like transactive thinking and creativity tools, to help your students imagine, innovate, and implement.
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- How Can I Revitalize My Classroom With Workforce Development Concepts?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- You will learn how adaptations of common workforce development practices can help you get more out of your students and help your students get more out of their college experience.
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- How Do I Use Controversial Issues to Build Cognitive Skills in My Students?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to use difficult discussions to improve students ability to reason—and help them function as respectful members of a civil society.
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- How Can I Teach Routine Courses with Energy and Enthusiasm?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This presentation equips you with an enlightened understanding of where you are as a teacher, where you want to go, and how to get there. You'll see how to work around your weaknesses and maybe even accept things you cant change. You'll develop different strategies to keep your teaching engaging through midcareer.
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- How Do I Create the Ideal Learning Environment for Modern Learners?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Based on a unique blend of current research and cognitive and educational psychology, this session offers practical and action-oriented techniques instructors in all disciplines can use to increase student engagement.
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- What Do Modern Learners Expect from Their Instructors?
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- This video will help you analyze your interactions with students, and exploring student perceptions of ideal instructors.
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- How Do I Promote Civil and Thoughtful Engagement in the Classroom?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This session will show you 15 proven, practical, and action-oriented tips for engaging students and establishing exciting, positive learning environments.
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- How Do Mini-lectures Improve Student Engagement?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn proven techniques you can use immediately to transform your lectures from necessary evils to persuasive presentations. Discover how educating and motivating students gets easier when you develop mini-lectures that are based on how the brain works.
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- How Do I Release My Students Natural Zest and Curiosity for Better Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Gain multiple strategies for spurring student curiosity on a day-to-day basis as well as throughout the course. Explore surprising but practical ways to connect with students and get their feedback and incorporate it in your teaching methodology.
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- How Can I Help Students See that Sweat-Working Hard and Smart-Is Key to Their Success?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Discover techniques for getting students to work smarter, not just harder. This programs covers questions of metacognition, the value of low-stakes feedback, and innovative ways that tests and quizzes can drive students to make more neural connections and increase long-term retention.
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- How Do I Create and Implement Microlectures?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Gain a clear picture of how microlectures can help you deliver a meaningful learning experience, foster a personal connection with students, and promote their full engagement in your online courses.
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- How Can I Avoid Communication Misfires with Students?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn communication techniques to help you navigate difficult situations with students—such as missed assignments, poor attendance, or late work—while keeping their motivation strong and their attitude about your class positive.
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- What Is the Role of Communication In Teaching Excellence?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn prosocial, positive, encouraging ways to address students and spur their confidence. You'll identify both verbal and nonverbal communication cues to maximize the value of your interactions with students.
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- How Can I Communicate to Engage Students and Encourage Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to self-assess your communication skills in the instructional context to see what works best for you and your students—and pick up new techniques to broaden your abilities.
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- How Do Master Teachers Create a Positive Classroom?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- There are simple ways you can liven up the classroom experience so it feels fresh. This program shows you how to incorporate creativity, optimism, enthusiasm, approachability, and humor to reenergize your teaching and create a positive classroom environment that engages students and supports learning.
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- How Can I Effectively Use Class Preparation Assignments?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Class preparation assignments, or CPAs, enable you to use your class time more effectively and move students toward higher levels of learning. This program prepares you to create class preparation assignments that will transform the classroom experience for you and your students.
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- How Do Prepared Students Change the Way I Teach?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- When students come to class prepared, you can—actually, you must—adjust how you teach. Instead of lecturing, you will employ effective new strategies that help your students process and master course content. This program shows you how your classes can and will change when you implement a course design and teaching strategies that naturally encourage students to come to class prepared.
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- How Do I Get Students to Come to Class Prepared?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Unprepared students might seem to be a standard ingredient of higher education, but it doesn't have to be that way. This program shows you what you can do to create the kind of courses that naturally encourage student preparation and eliminate some of the common frustrations of higher education.
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- What Works and What Doesn’t When Teaching Large Classes?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- You don't have to compromise your expectations when you teach large classes, but you might need to alter your approach. Learn the ways to manage a large class and make it feel smaller, more intimate, and more manageable in just 20 minutes.
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- How Can I Reduce Student Apathy and Increase Motivation?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- There are things you can do to improve student focus and connection to the course. In 20 minutes learn how to increase relevance in five areas of your teaching—your course design, your syllabus, your classroom, your assignments, and your exams.
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- How Can I Use Technology to Improve Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- The rapidly expanding body of instructional technologies can quickly overwhelm you, but it doesn't have to when you know how to narrow your options. This program presents some simple guiding principles for choosing technology to use in the classroom.
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- How Can I Use Student Feedback to Improve My Teaching?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Student evaluations can affect promotions, tenure decisions, and departmental dynamics. This program will show you how you can employ student feedback to hone your teaching, improve student learning, and create a more positive classroom environment.
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- How Can I Use Twitter to Improve Teaching and Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Discover how you can use Twitter as an educational tool. Whether you're new to the world of hashtags and tweets, or you feel like you at least know your way around a Twitter handle, this program will provide you with practical techniques you can use to integrate social media into your classroom.
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- How Can I Minimize Cheating in the Classroom?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Technology and punishment alone are not solving the problem of cheating. This program will show you real world-tested techniques to help you minimize cheating by inspiring a growth mindset in your students and encouraging them to change their goals from getting good grades to mastery learning.
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- Is There a Solution to Students Multitasking in Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Distracted learning is, at times, hardly learning at all. Learn how multitasking during class affects learning and what you can do to change student behaviors and attitudes about dividing attention during class time.
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