MAGNA 20-MINUTE MENTORS
Category: Course Delivery and Instruction
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
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, Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
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, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
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
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
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
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
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, 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, 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
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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Magna All Access
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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