MAGNA 20-MINUTE MENTOR
Category: 20-Minute Mentors
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement
- How Can I Design Critical Thinking into My Course?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement
- How Can Students Use Self-Compassion to Reduce Test Anxiety?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement
- How Do Master Teachers Create a Positive Classroom?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- What Key Concepts Improve Student Learning and Memory?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Strategic Planning
- How Can I Identify and Overcome Obstacles to Change?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Strategic Planning
- How Can I Build Momentum for Change with Short-term Wins?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Strategic Planning
- How Can I Create a Sense of Urgency for Change?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Effectively Use Class Preparation Assignments?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How Do Prepared Students Change the Way I Teach?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How Do I Get Students to Come to Class Prepared?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- What Works and What Doesn’t When Teaching Large Classes?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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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