MAGNA 20-MINUTE MENTOR
Category: Faculty
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Learn to create a discipline-specific strategy to grow your students critical thinking skills, identify critical thinking content, and adapt your courses accordingly. This program will give you a clearer and deeper understanding of critical thinking and how to teach it in your courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Design Critical Thinking into My Course?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This program identifies both general and discipline-specific critical thinking skills and how to turn these skills into good student learning outcomes. Learn to define critical thinking when designing or redesigning courses and identify the type of content conducive to practicing critical thinking.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Students Use Self-Compassion to Reduce Test Anxiety?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Sometimes students get in their own way. They panic before exams and fill their heads with worries about failure. This program shows you how to help your students reframe the way they look at their exams and themselves. When they learn to love themselves a little more, they will fear exams a little less.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do Master Teachers Create a Positive Classroom?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- There are a lot of things going on that can keep your students from performing at their best. This program shows you the kinds of challenges your students face and then offers a simple, adaptable classroom tool that you can use to help your students help themselves learn course material and effectively demonstrate their knowledge on exams.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Key Concepts Improve Student Learning and Memory?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- This program presents five different memory-boosting strategies to incorporate into your teaching. Learn how to use cueing, the testing effect, semantic encoding, peer teaching, and the spacing effect to help your students learn more course content, move to higher levels of learning, and recall information more easily on exams.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Effectively Use Class Preparation Assignments?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do Prepared Students Change the Way I Teach?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Get Students to Come to Class Prepared?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Works and What Doesn’t When Teaching Large Classes?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Reduce Student Apathy and Increase Motivation?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Technology in the Classroom
- How Can I Use Technology to Improve Learning?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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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