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
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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