MAGNA 20-MINUTE MENTOR
Category: 20-Minute Mentors
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- In Blended Courses, What Should Students Do Online?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- For instructors interested in exploring blended learning, deciding which course elements to teach face-to-face and which to address through online technology can be a major stumbling block. Learn a framework for making those essential educational judgment calls. Be confident that your selection of which materials to present online and which to present in the classroom will provide the best learning experience for your students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Should I Manage My Online Course?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Managing the workload of an online course can be more challenging than managing a face-to-face course. We walk you through an online instructor checklist created at Penn State University. When you have completed it, you will have created an instructors course manual that will help you stay organized, manage your workload, and keep your students working toward the learning goals.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Is Blended Learning?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Blended learning, which combines face-to-face classroom instruction with supervised online activities, is one of the hottest topics in higher education today. Blended learning is here to stay. Learn how to take advantage of online technology to better your students learning experience and improve your instruction. Find out how you can fuse the best of traditional techniques and cutting-edge online technology.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation
- I’m Teaching Online Next Term. What Do I Have to Know?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- If you're teaching your first online class next semester, and you're completely confident you know exactly what to do…then you're probably the first. If, on the other hand, you have more questions than answers, this program is tailor-made for you. We provide you with a 12-step framework for online teaching success.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Should I Do When a Student Challenges My Authority?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Students can challenge your authority in all sorts of ways. Some are overt (is he actually snoring?!), and some are not (that gentle pitter-pat you hear is most likely not rain on the roof…it's texting). This content-rich program examines effective and appropriate responses when students cross the line.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Help Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Developing critical thinking skills is the real business of higher education—teaching students to analyze and dissect every idea, ruminate about it, and arrive at thoughtful, informed opinions. This fast, focused program will show you how to incorporate active learning components into every aspect of your courses, from lectures to labs, from writing assignments to tests.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Can I Do to Increase Student Retention?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Gain useful strategies that will help improve student retention and give every student a better chance at success. Learn some powerful tools and techniques for continuously improving student retention at your institution.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Transform My Tests into Learning Tools?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Tests and other assessments are effective tools for determining how well students learned (and how well you taught) earlier in the semester. But they don't really do much to help students learn in the present, or as the semester progresses. This fast, focused program will provide you with an assortment of tools and techniques to promote better learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Are the Three Worst Mistakes to Make in the Classroom?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- This fast, focused presentation zeroes in on a trio of potential higher education teaching pitfalls—one involving how you teach, one what you teach, and one whom you teach. You'll come away with ideas you can use right away to avoid problems and create a positive, productive learning environment.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Give Feedback that Improves Student Writing?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Trying to teach students to improve their writing can be like trying to teach cats to fetch: Demonstrate all you want, encourage all you want, implore all you want—you're apt to be met with nothing but blinks. We share seven novel feedback techniques that will motivate your students and drive real improvement in their writing.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Create a Climate for Learning in My Classroom?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- We've all encountered toxic learning environments—apathetic students, disillusioned faculty, an entire roomful of people waiting for class to just end, already. Keeping the classroom climate positive is the responsibility of both sides. Learn valuable concepts you can put to work right away in every class.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Discuss Academic Integrity During the First Class?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- All faculty members have students who cheat in their classrooms. Should our primary response to classroom cheating be prevention, punishment, or indifference? With 11 pages of supplemental material, we explain how a developmental approach can ensure that all your students stay on the track to ethical academic success.
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