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20-Minute Mentors

20 Minute Mentors

20-Minute Mentors are video-based programs designed to answer a specific question related to teaching and learning.

They deliver actionable insights in highly focused 20-minute presentations designed to fit busy schedules.

“Applicable ideas and always short! I’m always recommending these to my colleagues.” – Mary Ann Reeley, Penn Foster, Grader

- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Introduce Creativity to My Classes to Build Connection with Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn new ways of developing lesson plans that help you better connect with your students and ultimately help your students succeed.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development, Teaching Strategies
- What Are 14 Strategies to Take My Teaching Career from Good to Great?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For any instructor looking to build or rejuvenate their career, this 20-Minute Mentor shares advice from successful faculty about strategies that can bring success in areas including productivity, effectiveness, and career satisfaction.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Harness the Power of Story to Create Classroom Community?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Sharing stories is a powerful tool for building connection in the classroom. Learn the connection between the power of stories and community while taking away three specific activities to create opportunity for storytelling in an academic classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What Are 7 Ways to Assess Students in an Ungraded Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Gain seven assessment strategies to use in classrooms of any size and classes of any type that maintain the benefits of ungrading while effectively maintaining rigor and high academic standards.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What Is Ungrading and How Can It Unleash Your Students’ Potential?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Get practical tips for how ungrading can be brought to any classroom and how to get started while learning how ungrading takes the pressure away from high-stakes exams and instead creates a pathway for learning throughout the semester based on performance, feedback, and demonstrated growth.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
- What Are 5 Ways H5P Tools Can Help Students Retain Course Content?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- If you are in need ideas to increase student engagement in your course, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates the value that H5P tools can provide, and examples of how to use them, to engage students in content and instructions in ways that improve comprehension and retention.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
- What are 3 Calendar Hacks Faculty Can Use to Avoid Stress and Burnout?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor shows how using a calendar effectively can provide boundaries and freedom, turning burnout and stress into efficient time management and heightened productivity.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Pace DEI Work to See Subtle Gains Now and Significant Gains in the Future?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates experienced productivity strategies, used by a tenured expert in leading success large-scale Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, to better manage large projects and find short-term success.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Use the First Day to Set the Tone for a Semester of Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor delivers meaningful, teacher-tested activities for the first day of class, that can easily be integrated into any course, which maximize the interest, investment, and interaction for students for the rest of the semester.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Create a Meaningful Service-Learning Project for my Online Class?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Discover how to integrate meaningful communication skills with instruction and reflection to enrich the online student learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities through service learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Student Engagement
- The Discussion Board and Beyond: How Can I Engage Students Online?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor shows you how to overcome common challenges of online discussion boards while examining other options for engagement both by using the learning management system (LMS) and engaging students outside of the online classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can I Adapt 5 Popular Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) to the Online Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor shows you 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.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Structure Class Discussions to Maximize Student Engagement?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who are looking to improve the quality of class discussions, this 20-Minute Mentor provides a three-step process for structuring discussions to increase participation and student engagement.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What Interventions Help Students Master Deep Reading and Engage with Assignments?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who have mixed- or low-level reading skills among students combined with course materials that are reading intensive, this 20-Minute Mentor details skills to implement that help strengthen student reading as well as instructional techniques to intervene before students lag behind.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Reach and Teach Struggling Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For teachers whose students are struggling to keep up with course content, pace, and assignments, this 20-Minute Mentor provides effective strategies for engaging students, assessing progress and comprehension, and promoting a growth mindset.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development, Teaching Strategies
- How Can You Become More Intentional About Culturally Responsive Teaching?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty desiring to improve student success by creating a more student-focused approach to teaching, this 20-Minute Mentor delivers strategies that address diversity through the adaptation of content, instruction, and materials of Culturally Responsive Teaching and its link to student success.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Create Authentic Engagement Through Feedback Dialogue?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty whose students are not applying feedback beyond a specific assignment, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how by creating a dialogue around feedback, students will learn not only what needs correcting in a specific assignment, but how to apply this learning to future assignment as well. Learn how to combine feedback with student engagement to create meaningful learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
- How Can I Apply a Resilient Mindset to My Teaching Practice?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty experiencing burnout from tough pandemic teaching conditions, this 20-Minute Mentor shows you how one educator embraced resiliency to create a positive outlook in a difficult time.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- What Did We Learn from Pandemic Teaching and What Are We Keeping as We Move On?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- While hard to realize, the pandemic was a time of instructional learning and growth. This 20-Minute Mentor guides faculty in choosing the best improvements to keep as you move on to classroom teaching.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can I Teach with Confidence in the Hyflex Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who must teach hyflex sessions, this 20-Minute Mentor delivers specific and creative engagement tactics to enhance engagement in each setting to bring the entire class together in achieving academic success.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
- What Are the Benefits—and Challenges—of Hyflex Instruction?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who feel overwhelmed with hyflex instruction, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how the benefits of hyflex teaching outweigh the challenges for both teachers and students alike while delivering time saving successful strategies to employ.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- What Are Best Practices for Hyflex Course Design and Delivery?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty not understanding or being overwhelmed with hyflex instruction, this 20-Minute Mentor provides clarity on steps to take in both planning and instructing a hyflex course as well as successful tips for engaging students in hyflex learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Student Engagement
- How Can I Create an Engaging, Student-Focused Syllabus?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty whose syllabi are often unread by students, leading to confusion and even misinformation later in the course, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how to make a visually appealing syllabus that quickly communicates crucial course details to students in an engaging way.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Use Everyday Interactions to Instill a Growth Mindset in Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor delivers practical advice from an experienced educator who has learned to change her communication with students in order to build small moments of opportunity for shifting from a fixed to a growth mindset.
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