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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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- Gain important insights into the ways you can create a classroom environment and a pedagogical approach that are responsive to the needs of all students and that contribute to an environment of mutual esteem and respect.
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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
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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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- 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
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- This program offers academic leaders a flexible structure for building or strengthening their graduate teaching assistant programs from recruitment to performance feedback.
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