Category: Mentor Commons

- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can I Use Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) Online?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to use the insights gained from using CATs to adjust future lessons and target your instruction to better meet the needs of your students. Gain skills you can apply in both online and traditional classrooms.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Gain a portfolio of guidelines for assignments that test student constructed responses. You will learn the keys to defining learning goals, creating assignments, and drafting rubrics to boost and measure critical thinking outcomes.
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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?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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?
- $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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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, Leadership, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Identify and Overcome Obstacles to Change?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This program shows you how to identify obstacles to change and then remove them, identify information gaps and eliminate them, and identify unsupportive peers and enlighten them both before and during your change process.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Build Momentum for Change with Short-term Wins?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- If you need to implement some kind of change, you know what kind of challenge lies ahead. This program demonstrates how to plan for, recognize, celebrate, and build on short-term wins to support and sustain your long-term change effort.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Create a Sense of Urgency for Change?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- To successfully effect meaningful change, you need a group that shares your belief that something needs to happen. Learn how to build a case for change and then how to use that case to assemble a team to lead the change effort.
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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?
- $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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- 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?
- $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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- 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?
- $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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- 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?
- $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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- 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?
- $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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- 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?
- $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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Build a Successful Faculty Development Program?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- With the right programming, you can make sure that your faculty have access to and actually use the professional development resources they need in order to remain compliant and relevant. This presentation covers the major points of inservice program development, from goal setting and generating faculty buy-in to logistics and content management.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Technology in the Classroom
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Should I Do When a Student Cheats?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Three out of every four college students cheat at some point during their undergraduate careers. Learn a more effective approach to ending academic dishonesty and study real-world examples of how to implement each step of Lang's five-step model for dealing with cheating and promoting academic integrity.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- How Can Google Docs Help Foster Productive Collaboration?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This presentation will show you how Google Docs can be one of the most effective teaching tools around. With Google Docs, you'll be able to increase student-to-student and student-to-faculty communication, deepen your students connection to course content, and help them start learning the important skill of collaboration.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Measure My Faculty Development Center’s Impact?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- In an era of ever-tightening budget restrictions placed on universities and departments, no program or academic center is safe from cutbacks. This program prepares you to measure and articulate the value of your center in ways that matter to people who think about line items and dollar signs.
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