MAGNA ONLINE SEMINARS
Category: Personal Development
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
15 Practical Strategies to Re-energize Mid-career Teachers
- $39.00 – $697.00
- A challenging economy has resulted in larger class sizes, increased workloads and more stress for faculty at colleges and universities across the country. Times like these can make it tough for educators to stay enthusiastic, but it's vital that they do so, for the sake of their students, their institutions, their careers, and their own well-being. This seminar will teach you how you can innovate your way past career stagnation and engage your students like never before.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
Nine Essential Traits of the Effective Professor
- $39.00 – $697.00
- We explain not only what today's students believe are the most essential qualities for effective teaching, but also prepare you to make simple and sometimes subtle changes to incorporate or develop practices and traits that resonate with students and yield improved academic outcomes.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
Considering the Courage and Practice of Teaching
- $39.00 – $197.00
- Parker Palmer, PhD, and Maryellen Weimer, PhD, talk about the underpinnings of their approaches to their work as teachers. They discuss the critical role of self-knowledge as a precursor to your work with students, as well as why it is the key to growth and development as teachers.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
How Can I Set Time Management Priorities in Online Teaching?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Faculty need efficient instruction practices when teaching online. Learn proven time management practices for your online courses. As a result, you will do a better job of providing feedback and achieving instructional priorities without spending all of your time in front of the computer.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
How Can I Improve My PowerPoint Presentation Skills?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Poorly designed PowerPoint presentations distract and detract from your teaching. The proven presentation techniques you'll learn in this program will help you improve your classroom teaching and enhance student learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
How Do I Prepare a SoTL Article for Publication?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This program covers tips to help you publish a SoTL article including how to design a new SoTL project, prepare a SoTL manuscript, and avoid the pitfalls that lead to rejection of SoTL articles. It will guide you from topic selection to contacting editors regarding publishing possibilities.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
How Can I Use Frequent Student Feedback to Improve My Courses?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- If you are only asking for feedback at the end of the semester, there's not much you can do to improve the learning for your current students. That is why it's important to get student feedback early in the semester—and multiple times throughout—to understand your students and meet their learning needs. We share the five times in the semester when getting student feedback is valuable and provides practical ways to obtain that information.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Personal Development
How Can Online Instructors Better Manage Their Workload?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- About 60-70% of faculty believe that teaching online courses is more work intensive than teaching face-to-face courses. Factors include course preparation before teaching, managing sometimes unwieldy online discussions, and even fielding student questions around the clock.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
How Can I Become a Better Online Instructor?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This program will present five practical strategies to level up online teaching so that instructors experience greater satisfaction in their work and create more rewarding learning experiences for their students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
What is the Best Teaching Advice I Ever Received?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- What things can teachers do to become more effective in the classroom? For faculty who are interested in becoming a better teacher, this presentation shares teaching advice collected from outstanding research professors.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
What is the Best Scholarship Advice I Ever Received?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- What things can teachers do to become more effective scholars? For faculty who are interested in becoming a better and more efficient researcher and writer, this presentation shares scholarship advice assembled from outstanding research professors.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
What is the Best Citizenship Advice I Ever Received?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Balancing teaching, scholarship, and citizenship responsibilities is challenging for college professors. What can teachers do to more effectively fulfill their citizenship responsibilities?
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