MAGNA 20-MINUTE MENTORS
Category: 20-Minute Mentors
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
How Can I Encourage Students to Stay Connected with Course Content After Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn techniques you can use to deepen student understanding of course material—after class is over—that you presented in the classroom. These techniques include creating reflection videos and cartoon making, among others.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
What Brain-Based Techniques Can I Use to Engage Students During Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This program demonstrates several techniques to engage student brains in learning. All can be incorporated into either a traditional 50-minute or a longer class period. Since each students brain is unique and may learn in different ways, the presenters offer specific techniques that help vary the learning experience during a typical classroom time frame.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
How Can I Get Students to Engage with Course Content Before Class?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons, Technology in the Classroom
How Can I Use Technology to Foster the Emotional Processing of Course Content?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
What Behavioral Changes Can I Make to Inspire Enthusiasm in My Classroom?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
How Can I Engage the Emotions of My Students to Maximize Learning?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
What Can I Do to Manage and Reduce Academic Job Stress?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, acquire practical strategies for limiting the stressful impacts of situations in the job and how to build resiliency against stress. Explore ways that faculty (and others) can take care of themselves so that they can continue to do their work effectively.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Climate, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
How Can I Resolve Difficult Situations in the Classroom?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
How Can I Create a Platform for Difficult Conversations in the Online Classroom?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
What 5 Play-based Activities Can I Use to Create an Active, Learning-centered Class?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
Beyond Syllabus Policies: What Strategies Help Students Take Responsibility for Learning?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
How Can I Plan (or Revise) My Courses More Efficiently?
- $19.00 – $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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