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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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    • Student Entitlement: Truth, Fiction, or Some of Both?

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    • Discover what the research has documented about the extent of academic entitlement. Is it associated with certain personality characteristics? Does it result from approaches taken to parenting? Are the attitudes cultivated in earlier educational experiences? Is there widespread agreement as to what it looks like when college students are acting and sounding entitled?
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  • Creating Critical Thinkers in the Information Age
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    • Creating Critical Thinkers in the Information Age

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    • Learn to be more mindful of how to critically access information. You will gain a toolbox of skills to apply to your own information use as well as that of your students.
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  • Creating and Maintaining a Robust Faculty Mentoring Program
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    • You will learn how to establish and maintain a meaningful faculty mentoring program that enables your faculty to be successful as teachers, scholars, and citizens.
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  • Incorporating 360-Degree Assessment into Your Classroom
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    • Discover 360-degree assessment as a multiple-input approach to feedback that can improve teaching outcomes for instructors and learning outcomes for students, maximize and enhance deep, meaningful learning, and promote achievement for both teachers and students.
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  • Building a Tougher Student: Applying the Research on Intellectual Development
  • Strategies for Making Lectures More Active, Engaging, and Meaningful
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    • Participants will learn a series of low-risk, very easy to implement strategies, tips, and tools that they can implement to make their lectures more student-centered and engaging in order to promote higher level learning.
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  • Creative Course Design: Yes You Can!
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    • Examine the value of interdisciplinary thinking to solve learning challenges, discover how to apply creative approaches to your course outcomes and assessments, and discover new excitement for teaching and collaborating within your discipline.
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  • The Role of the Strategic Plan in Building Faculty Development Programs
    • The Role of the Strategic Plan in Building Faculty Development Programs

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  • Teaching to the Core: Ensuring the Success of Professional-Track Students
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    • Learn how to set students up for success by employing alternative lessons, using a blended and supportive curriculum, and teaching students individually. You'll review core competencies required by CODA/ACEN and explore strategies for assisting students with different learning challenges.
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  • Three Secrets to Building Diverse and Inclusive Online Learning Environments
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    • Through the strategies discussed in this Magna Online Seminar, you'll come away better prepared to increase student participation and engagement in a diverse online classroom, equipped with strategies that increase student inclusion in the online environment, and ready to create culturally responsive social presence in the online space.
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  • Four Common Teaching Traps and How to Avoid Them
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    • Learn how to identify each of the four most common teaching problems, explore their implications, and understand warning signs and solution. Discover how to recognize misalignment, expert blind spots, content overload, and over-identification.
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  • What are Microaggressions and What Can I Do About Them?
    • What are Microaggressions and What Can I Do About Them?

    • What are Microaggressions and What Can I Do About Them?

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    • This Magna Online Seminar offers an understanding of microaggressions in the classroom, strategies to take when they occur, and suggestions on how to create a classroom climate that limits them.
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