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Megwen Loveless, PhD, has been teaching Portuguese and developing curricula for the Portuguese classroom for over fifteen years. She has taught at Harvard and Princeton universities and is currently the director of the Basic Language program in Portuguese at Tulane University. Her pedagogy emphasizes the use of music, popular culture, and new media, as well as innovative teaching methods and expansion of the language program outside of the traditional classroom. She got her doctoral in the Cultural Anthropology department at Harvard University in 2010 and has encouraged colleagues across disciplines to acknowledge the importance of teaching culture in the language classroom.
Last Updated: 05-28-2020
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How Can I Spark Conversation in the Classroom?
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- Student engagement—especially in conversation and peer interaction—can be a big challenge for college educators. This program introduces four tried-and-true techniques to create a learning environment that is literally buzzing with student conversation.
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How Can Post-Exam Reviews Become a Powerful Teaching Strategy?
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- The benefits of a thoughtfully designed and learning-oriented post-exam review session is a win- win for both faculty and students. When post-exam review is implemented with concepts critical to student learning, students are given the opportunity for metacognition to identify both strengths and gaps in knowledge, explore content to apply classroom knowledge, and differentiate correct from incorrect thinking.
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What is the Best Teaching Advice I Ever Received?
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- What things can teachers do to become more effective in the classroom? For faculty who are interested in becoming a better teacher, this presentation shares teaching advice collected from outstanding research professors.
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What is the Best Scholarship Advice I Ever Received?
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- What things can teachers do to become more effective scholars? For faculty who are interested in becoming a better and more efficient researcher and writer, this presentation shares scholarship advice assembled from outstanding research professors.
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What is the Best Citizenship Advice I Ever Received?
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- Balancing teaching, scholarship, and citizenship responsibilities is challenging for college professors. What can teachers do to more effectively fulfill their citizenship responsibilities?
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How Can I Write a Course Syllabus That’s Worth Reading?
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- Your syllabus is one of the first impressions your course will make on your students. Need an aha moment to punch up your syllabi? Learn how to transform them from long, boring and text-laden documents to something elegant and engaging that your students will want to read.
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How Can Educational Programs Use Backwards Design to Drive Learning and Student Success?
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- Backwards design is a straightforward process that provides value to both learners and instructors by creating alignment between objectives, class format, and examination questions. This method can assure student success by focusing on the outcomes first and ensuring that the course content aligns with those outcomes, while also creating a better process for instructors by allowing them to focus on their own content more efficiently.
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How Can Change Management Principles Help New Educational Programs Succeed?
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- Changing an educational format or program can be challenging for both instructors and students. Viewing classroom change through the Kubler-Ross change curve helps determine that stress and resistance can be managed through to experimentation and integration over time.
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How Can I Build a Mindset for Assessment in an Academic Department?
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- Assessment is at the heart of effective teaching and student success. Assessment is regularly practiced in the classroom by faculty; yet moving assessment into a more formal, structured, and systematic department process may make faculty feel vulnerable.
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How Can I Analyze Department Data and Move Towards Closing the Assessment Loop?
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- This program explores the steps that should be considered once assessment data has been collected at the departmental level. These steps cover very practical implications and the planning tips provided help ensure this process is efficient, meaningful, and considered worthy of your faculty's time.
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How Do I Lead Change from the Middle?
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- Change is sweeping through higher education. Major strategic choices come from university leadership rather than deans and department chairs. The deans and department chairs represent the middle management where actual change must be implemented. This 20-Minute Mentor helps explicate the causes of these changes and the strategies to address the need for change.
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What Should I Consider When Evaluating Online Teaching Faculty?
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- This mentor is especially useful for anyone new to evaluating faculty, uncomfortable with confrontation or coaching difficulty conversations, or interested in redesigning the evaluation process or mechanism (form/tool) on their campus.
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