MAGNA 20-MINUTE MENTOR
1-month On-demand Institutional Access
Stephanie Delaney, PhD is the vice president of instruction at Renton Technical College. Delaney has a strong background in Guided Pathways and eLearning and she has spoken nationally on issues related to leadership, technology, and effective online teaching and learning.
Delaney earned her PhD in educational leadership in higher education/distance education at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She also holds a law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law and a masters degree in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School. She earned her BS at Georgetown University.
Updated: 08-12-2019
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can I Use Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) Online?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to use the insights gained from using CATs to adjust future lessons and target your instruction to better meet the needs of your students. Gain skills you can apply in both online and traditional classrooms.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Gain a portfolio of guidelines for assignments that test student constructed responses. You will learn the keys to defining learning goals, creating assignments, and drafting rubrics to boost and measure critical thinking outcomes.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn to create a discipline-specific strategy to grow your students critical thinking skills, identify critical thinking content, and adapt your courses accordingly. This program will give you a clearer and deeper understanding of critical thinking and how to teach it in your courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Design Critical Thinking into My Course?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Students Use Self-Compassion to Reduce Test Anxiety?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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, Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do Master Teachers Create a Positive Classroom?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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, 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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