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Maryellen Weimer is a professor emerita of teaching and learning at Penn State Berks and won Penn State's Milton S. Eisenhower award for distinguished teaching in 2005. Weimer has consulted with more than 600 colleges and universities on instructional issues and regularly keynotes national meetings and regional conferences.

Weimer has edited The Teaching Professor newsletter since 1987 and writes the Teaching Professor Blog. A distinguished scholar and author, Dr. Weimers books include Inspired College Teaching: A Career-Long Resource for Professional Growth (Jossey-Bass, 2010), Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning Professional Literature that Makes a Difference (Jossey-Bass, 2006), and Improving Your Classroom Teaching (Sage Publications, 1993). Her Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice, 2nd ed. (Jossey-Bass, 2013) remains one of the most influential books for educators looking to adopt a learner-centered approach in their classrooms.

Updated 05-27-2017

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  • How Can I Teach Routine Courses with Energy and Enthusiasm?
    • How Can I Teach Routine Courses with Energy and Enthusiasm?
    • How Can I Teach Routine Courses with Energy and Enthusiasm?

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    • This presentation equips you with an enlightened understanding of where you are as a teacher, where you want to go, and how to get there. You'll see how to work around your weaknesses and maybe even accept things you cant change. You'll develop different strategies to keep your teaching engaging through midcareer.
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  • How Can I Move My Teaching Forward at Midcareer?
    • How Can I Move My Teaching Forward at Midcareer?
    • How Can I Move My Teaching Forward at Midcareer?

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    • Teachers will learn how to keep themselves present—when they go to class tomorrow and for the balance of their careers—by following the presenters down-to-earth diagnosis of the problem and prescription for solutions.
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  • How Do I Establish an Engaging Atmosphere in My Online Classroom?
  • How Do I Create a Lively, Yet Functional, Online Classroom?
  • How Do I Design Innovative Assignments to Foster Learning in the Online Classroom?
  • What Are the Best Questioning Strategies for Enhancing Online Discussions?
  • What Are the Secrets to Providing Highly Effective Feedback to Students?
    • What Are the Secrets to Providing Highly Effective Feedback to Students?
    • What Are the Secrets to Providing Highly Effective Feedback to Students?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • You'll learn ways to give substantive feedback and recycle comments to save time and effort. You'll see the type of questions that help or hinder student achievement and acquire tips to ignite students curiosity, respect their thinking, and stoke their engagement.
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  • What Are the Secrets to Making Highly Effective Educational Videos?
  • What Three Things Should I Do Each Week to Engage Online Students?
  • How Do I Align Learning Objectives with Technology Using Backward Design?
  • How Does Grit Team with a Growth Mindset to Cultivate Lifelong Learning?
    • How Does Grit Team with a Growth Mindset to Cultivate Lifelong Learning?
    • How Does Grit Team with a Growth Mindset to Cultivate Lifelong Learning?

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    • Discover both instructional and classroom strategies that promote a growth mindset. Help transform students fixed mindsets, boost their confidence in their abilities, help them overcome setbacks in their education, and strengthen their persistence to learn.
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  • How Do I Release My Students’ Natural Zest and Curiosity for Better Learning?
    • How Do I Release My Students’ Natural Zest and Curiosity for Better Learning?
    • How Do I Release My Students’ Natural Zest and Curiosity for Better Learning?

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    • Gain multiple strategies for spurring student curiosity natural zest for learning on a day-to-day basis as well as throughout the course. Explore surprising but practical ways to connect with students and get their feedback and incorporate it in your teaching methodology.
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  • How Can I Help Students See that Sweat-Working Hard and Smart-Is Key to Their Success?
  • How Does My Department Become More Strategic with Online Programming?
    • How Does My Department Become More Strategic with Online Programming?
    • How Does My Department Become More Strategic with Online Programming?

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    • Learn the importance of evaluating what has motivated online course and program development in the past to guide your decisions today. You'll discover who should be involved in the process of fine-tuning your online programming.
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  • How Do I Create an Online Education Policy and Procedures Manual?
  • How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Months?
    • How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Months?
    • How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Months?

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    • In this program, you'll discover specific places where students benefit the most from UDL principles. You'll see how to provide learners with full alternative paths through your courses—and how to execute this in about 20 months.
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  • How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Minutes?
    • How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Minutes?
    • How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Minutes?

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    • Discover how UDL benefits all students and gives extra support to vulnerable groups, including single parents, working students, and military learners.
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  • How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Days?
    • How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Days?
    • How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Days?

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    • This program covers four effective UDL strategies that go beyond legal compliance requirements. You will finish with a 20-day plan to customize a learning experience for all students that will last throughout the course and beyond the classroom
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  • How Do I Create and Implement Microlectures?
    • How Do I Create and Implement Microlectures?
    • How Do I Create and Implement Microlectures?

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    • Gain a clear picture of how microlectures can help you deliver a meaningful learning experience, foster a personal connection with students, and promote their full engagement in your online courses.
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  • How Can I Keep Students Engaged with Instructor Presence?
    • How Can I Keep Students Engaged with Instructor Presence?
    • How Can I Keep Students Engaged with Instructor Presence?

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    • Explore the importance of faculty presence for student success in distance education. Learn how to analyze, evaluate, and improve your level of instructor presence in your courses.
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  • How Can I Engage Adjunct Online Faculty in Professional Development?
    • How Can I Engage Adjunct Online Faculty in Professional Development?
    • How Can I Engage Adjunct Online Faculty in Professional Development?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • Learn how to focus your developmental offerings on the topics that will benefit your adjuncts most; you'll consider the most effective delivery methods for this far-flung and difficult-to-schedule constituency; and you'll learn how to provide meaningful incentives for adjuncts to participate in training.
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  • How Can Course Design Help Prevent Online Cheating?
    • How Can Course Design Help Prevent Online Cheating?
    • How Can Course Design Help Prevent Online Cheating?

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    • Learn the techniques that other schools have successfully used to slash the potential of cheating, assuage student anxiety about their academic performance, and propel them toward being more honest, self-reliant learners.
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  • How Can I Encourage the Growth Mindset with Three Simple Tips?
  • How Can I Evaluate Online Teaching If I Haven’t Taught Online?
    • How Can I Evaluate Online Teaching If I Haven’t Taught Online?
    • How Can I Evaluate Online Teaching If I Haven’t Taught Online?

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    • Learn the difference between the design elements of a course and the instructional interactions done in the online classroom that count as teaching practices. Identify the five key online teaching behaviors from your Learning Management System.
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