MAGNA 20-MINUTE MENTORS
Category: Magna All Access

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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Get Students to Engage with Course Content Before Class?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This program addresses how student misconceptions about course content can become barriers to learning and offers several techniques to help teachers facilitate the adoption of alternative viewpoints in their students.
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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?
- $29.00 – $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?
- $29.00 – $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, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Engage the Emotions of My Students to Maximize Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Recent research shows that emotions have a strong impact on cognition. Instead of excluding emotion from the classroom, instructors would do well to acknowledge and take advantage of the impact emotions have on students ability to learn new material. Drawing on a proposed addition of Emotional Presence to the Community of Inquiry Framework, examine why and how emotions can increase learning and retention.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
What Can I Do to Manage and Reduce Academic Job Stress?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Faculty will gain practical strategies for managing and reducing stress to maximize their impact in their position and obtain a better sense of wellbeing.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Climate, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Resolve Difficult Situations in the Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this program, learn to recognize microaggressions and bullying in the online classroom and explore a strategy to effectively address these issues if and when they arise.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Climate, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
How Can I Create a Platform for Difficult Conversations in the Online Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this program, explore a simple framework to engage in a difficult conversation, apply the framework to scenarios that might come up in the online classroom, and gain strategies to have successful resolutions to difficult topics.
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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?
- $29.00 – $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, Faculty, Magna All Access
Beyond Syllabus Policies: What Strategies Help Students Take Responsibility for Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, discover best practices to follow in the classroom that will encourage students to become better learners and not engage in unproductive behaviors.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Plan (or Revise) My Courses More Efficiently?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Do you have a system or standard process for prepping a course you've taught before? Where do you start? Often, planning revolves around syllabus revision, closing loopholes, and adjusting dates. What most of us need is a strategic, instructionally sound set of steps to help guide our decision-making. This 20-Minute Mentor provides just that, a four-step model considering the big picture goals, major content areas, calendar implications, and assessments.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
How Can Preparing to Teach Online Improve My Face-to-face Teaching?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, learn how the process of teaching online can improve your face-to-face teaching.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
Is Coaching a Good Fit for My Faculty Development Program?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, you will identify next steps to implementing coaching, whether there is currently a mentoring program in place at your institution or not.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
How Do I Move from Mentoring to Coaching in Faculty Development?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, learn three learning objectives that will help with your mentoring and coaching processes.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
What Tools Can I Use to Ensure I Have Effective Coaching Conversations with Faculty?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, you will learn how to have effective coaching conversations with your faculty.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
How Can I Most Effectively Fulfill My Citizenship Requirements?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, the goal is to help you think about ways you can be more effective in your citizenship responsibilities.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
What are 10 Tips to Collaborate with Colleagues?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, the goal is to help consider ways to improve collaboration with colleagues. Faculty will explore how and where collaboration is appropriate, and how to get the most out of collaboration.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Specific Student Populations
Why is Intercultural Competence Important and How Can it Improve my Teaching?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, participants learn to reflect on their own assumptions that they bring to the classroom, as well as strategies to overcome assumptions and foster a more culturally responsive approach to teaching.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Specific Student Populations
What Culturally Responsive Teaching Techniques Can I Use to Improve Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, faculty become more aware of cultural differences as well as the intersectionality of all different cultures represented in the classroom to engage with students on a deeper level.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Climate, Faculty, Magna All Access, Specific Student Populations
What are 3 Keys to Teaching Intercultural Competence?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-minute program is designed to teach participants three keys to intercultural competency so that students have a strong foundation of intercultural communication that extends far beyond the classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
What Strategies Can I Apply to Address Serious Online Faculty Performance Concerns?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn about focusing on individuals and context to personalize your efforts while maintaining consistent standards and expectations: what kinds of performance concerns are common to online teaching and why they need to be repaired, how to identify serious lapses in performance that may not appear on performance management reports, and how to work with challenging faculty.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
How Can I Address Minor Online Faculty Performance Concerns with Coaching?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, the focus is on minor performance concerns that can be corrected through coaching. Learn how to differentiate between minor performance concerns that could benefit from coaching and those that require more formal performance management.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
How Can I Build Community with My Online Faculty?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn to build community with online faculty as an essential component of performance management, effective ways to set the tone for both leading and managing online faculty, how to communicate clearly and consistently to keep faculty informed, and how to employ strategies for regular coaching outreach efforts to work with online faculty on a variety of teaching performance areas.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
What are Five Methods that Help Students Become More Effective Learners?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this mentor, come away with expert strategies from a world-renowned teaching and learning specialist that will move your students toward becoming effective learners, allowing them to pursue understanding, learn from failures, and continue learning for life.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
How Can I Create a Faculty Development Program that is Engaging and Effective?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Through this 20-minute program, you will gain new ideas, perspectives, and strategies based on current literature that improve the effectiveness of your faculty development programs, your teachers, and your institution.
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