MAGNA 20-MINUTE MENTORS
Category: 20-Minute Mentors

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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
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, Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access
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
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, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Leadership, Magna All Access
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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access
How Can I Design Copyright-Compliant Courses?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Spare yourself a lot of problems and potential litigation by keeping your course design and use of materials within the limits of the law. This presentation will give you an overview of fair use and copyright law, and will show you best practices to keep you on the right side of the law.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access
What Does Copyright Ownership Mean to Me?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- In the competitive atmosphere of higher education today, faculty members are always under pressure to secure grants, publish, and build their reputations. This session covers the key issues of copyright ownership and shows how they apply to your work.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Kinds of Questions Encourage Student Interaction?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Changing how you use questions requires a few simple tweaks to your approach and not a major overhaul of your teaching methods. Learn the subtle things you can do to make your questions more powerful and your classroom interactions with students more fruitful.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
Are Group Exams a Viable Testing Option?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Group work doesn't always have the best reputation. Learn how to overcome common concerns about group exams and how to employ them to increase student learning and improve outcomes for students and for you.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access
Linking, Embedding & Streaming: What’s Legal? What’s Not?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- It's your responsibility to understand how copyright law and fair use regulations affect what material you can share with students and how. This program will help you understand what is and isn't permitted in online teaching and will give you guidelines to help you find your own way when you encounter those areas that need a judgment call.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access
Where Can I Find Flippable Moments in My Classes?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- If you have been wanting to flip but don't know where to start or fear you'll do it all wrong, this program is for you. Identify the flippable lessons in any course and determine which parts of your lessons you should actually invest time and energy in flipping.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Structure a Flipped Lesson?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn the structure and find the confidence to flip a lesson in a course you already teach or a new course you are designing. Discover how to integrate flipped lessons into the overall course for a seamless learning experience for your students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
How Can I Better Manage Difficult Conversations with Faculty?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Is there a conversation you should have with a faculty member that you're putting off because you're afraid of how she or he will react? A technique called motivational interviewing is the key and you'll learn how it could help you do a better job of navigating the rough spots of academic life in this program.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Enhance Students Self-Regulated Learning Skills?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn the three stages of self-regulated learning plus specific and real-world-tested techniques you can use to encourage student self-monitoring, self-testing, and self-evaluation.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Is Storyboarding? And How Can It Help Me Flip My Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- You don't have to be an artist or have any kind of advanced production skills to benefit from a storyboard. After this program you will be able to use a storyboard to create a more powerful video that supports learning objectives and reinforces the benefits of the flipped classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Are 5 FAQ’s About Faculty Roles in the Flipped Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This program will give you the confidence you need to start flipping your own courses right away. Discover the answers to the five most common areas of concern for instructors new to flipping.
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