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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.

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  • An Integrated Approach to Student Exams
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    • An Integrated Approach to Student Exams

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    • Discover simple strategies you can use every day, whether online or in the classroom, to ensure exams are not simply perceived as grade-generating mechanisms but instead recognized as enriched learning tools that will have a significant impact on student success.
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  • Online Learning through Instructional Design
    • Online Learning through Instructional Design

    • Online Learning through Instructional Design

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    • This seminar provides you with the tools to seamlessly transition from face-to-face courses to an online learning format.
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  • Effective Writing Assessment in the Online Classroom
    • Effective Writing Assessment in the Online Classroom

    • Effective Writing Assessment in the Online Classroom

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    • Discover a fresh look at how you can help students sharpen their writing and function at a higher level of competence in an online community of learners.
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  • Wake Them Up! Engaging Students in the 21st Century Classroom
    • Wake Them Up! Engaging Students in the 21st Century Classroom

    • Wake Them Up! Engaging Students in the 21st Century Classroom

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    • Learn strategies to help students achieve performance targets while also restoring student engagement through a variety of practical, actionable teaching techniques.
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  • Simple Strategies to Create an Inclusive Classroom for Gender Variant Students
  • Practical Strategies to Improve Student Retention in Online Courses
    • Practical Strategies to Improve Student Retention in Online Courses

    • Practical Strategies to Improve Student Retention in Online Courses

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    • Learn why there is an increased danger of attrition in online courses and how to address this in four key areas: course design, instructor presence, personal attention, and connectedness to the institution.
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  • The Technology-Free Approach to Flipping the Classroom
    • The Technology-Free Approach to Flipping the Classroom

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    • Explore a variety of flipped and active learning strategies they can use in class to allow students to apply, analyze, and evaluate course content.
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  • Aligning Student and Faculty Perceptions of Rigor
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    • Aligning Student and Faculty Perceptions of Rigor

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    • Gain strategies to help you expand students concept and definition of learning, get students thinking about how they learn, and promote self-directed learning.
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  • Interpreting Rigor: Tools for Evaluating Faculty and Increasing Program Retention
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    • Teachers and students measure hard courses by different yardsticks. Program leaders need to be aware of these different perspectives in order to apply strategies that identify and address gaps to foster student success, increase program retention, and promote faculty development.
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  • Seven Ways to Facilitate Effective Online Discussions
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    • Gain a variety of strategies to create discussion board activities that your students find interesting and also strategies to effectively facilitate discussions and manage the workload related to reading and grading posts.
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  • Facilitate Deep Learning and Student Engagement through Socratic Questioning
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    • You'll view and analyze effective and ineffective examples of Socratic questioning, so you can continue to support student learning through useful questioning techniques and avoid questions that stifle student inquiry and thinking.
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  • How to Create a Successful Graduate Teaching Assistant Training and Development Program
  • Student Entitlement: Truth, Fiction, or Some of Both?
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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
    • Creating Critical Thinkers in the Information Age

    • 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
    • Creating and Maintaining a Robust Faculty Mentoring Program

    • 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
    • Strategies for Making Lectures More Active, Engaging, and Meaningful

    • 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
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    • Learn the steps for creating an effective and dynamic strategic plan, ways of using the strategic plan to build institutional support for faculty development programs, and methods for using the strategic plan to communicate with outside stakeholders.
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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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