1-week On-demand Individual Access
Gary R. Hafer is the John P. Graham Teaching Professor and a professor in English department at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA, where he teaches writing to students in all disciplines. His short studies on writing instruction have appeared in College English, Journal of Developmental Education, Teaching Professor, and Computers and Composition. In addition, Hafer is production design editor for Brilliant Corners, a journal of jazz and literature. He is the author of the book, Embracing Writing: Ways to Teach Reluctant Writers in Any College Course (Jossey-Bass, 2014), a guided approach to teaching course content through writing that also helps faculty develop their own professional writing projects. He is also a contributing writer to Faculty Focus, an online newsletter from Magna Publications that reaches more than 125,000 higher education faculty weekly.
He has been a member of the board of advisors for the Teaching Professor Conferences (2013-2015) and was awarded the Constance Cupp Plankenhorn Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence in 2010. Also in 2010, he earned the Award for Exemplary Teaching from the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry.
Updated 10-30-2017
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can Student Learning Begin Before the First Day of Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn to improve upon traditional first-day classroom activities and replace stilted introductions and syllabus review with active learning by utilizing distance learning tools.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Avoid Communication Misfires with Students?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn communication techniques to help you navigate difficult situations with students—such as missed assignments, poor attendance, or late work—while keeping their motivation strong and their attitude about your class positive.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Is the Role of Communication In Teaching Excellence?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn prosocial, positive, encouraging ways to address students and spur their confidence. You'll identify both verbal and nonverbal communication cues to maximize the value of your interactions with students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Communicate to Engage Students and Encourage Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn how to self-assess your communication skills in the instructional context to see what works best for you and your students—and pick up new techniques to broaden your abilities.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
How Can I Save Time and Money by Repurposing Online Content?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This session will inspire you to look at your existing work in new ways. Seeing all the future uses of your online education materials will motivate you to take your course preparation work to the next level.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can Grading Policy Options Influence Student Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn the positive results—empowering students, motivating them, increasing their engagement, achieving better learning outcomes—that can be realized through strategic decisions you make about your grading policies.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Ethical Issues Lurk in My Grading Policy?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Assess your current grading practices to ensure they are grounded in fairness and objectivity. Learn about the checks and balances you can apply to your grading policies to ensure they conform to your ethical standards.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Objective Items?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn how to assess most critical thinking skills using an assortment of methods, such as true/false, matching, multiple choice, and multiple true/false tests. Receive step-by-step instruction for designing objective items to assess particular cognitive operations in critical thinking skills for a wide range of disciplines.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Is Essential in a Grading Policy?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn the merits of absolute grading versus grading on a curve, the pluses and minuses of letter-based and point-based grading, and whether—and how—to properly weight assignments across a semester.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
How Can I Develop Online Instructor Presence?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn step-by-step guidelines for establishing an instructor presence in your online classes. Identify the things you want to share with your class and create a strategy for expressing your persona throughout the semester.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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
What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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