A new resource for faculty members!

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Wouldn't it be great if we all had mentors who could give us their best advice to our most pressing questions? And, wouldn't it be even better if our mentors were highly respected practitioners? Magna’s 20 Minute Mentor program delivers just that.

In just 20 minutes you'll:
• Get specific, actionable advice on key issues related to teaching and learning, classroom management, online teaching, assessment, and student behavior.
• Uncover key ways to help you solve your faculty development problems.
• Gain knowledge from some of the most highly respected practitioners in higher education as they share tips, techniques and insights on a variety of subjects.


Each Magna 20 Minute Mentor cuts to the point, answering a critical question and offering specific strategies you can start using today.


Here are just some of the questions answered by the 20 Minute Mentors:

How Flexible Should I Be With Non-Traditional Students?
In this 20 Minute Mentor, the president-elect of the American College Counseling Association, Dr. Brian Van Brunt, gives us his reasoned–and reasonable–advice on how to support non-traditional students, without becoming either too much of a push-over or too inflexible.


What you will learn

By participating in this 20 minute program, you will learn:
• The kinds of stress and challenges that non-traditional students face day to day.
• How to distinguish between helping non-traditional students and enabling them.
• How to set standards with non-traditional students that require hard work but that are also flexible.
• Various approaches for helping non-traditional students overcome the academic challenges they face in pursuing a college education.
• How to intervene in responding to “red flags” to ensure that your non-traditional students stay on track with their coursework.
• Various campus resources that you can refer non-traditional students to for assistance.
The program also includes supplemental materials that feature suggestions, case studies and recommended resources.

For more information, click here (http://www.magnapubs.com/mentor/ZOC3.html?s=cj&p=email) or call toll free (800) 433-0499 ext. 2.

What Are My Rubric Results Telling Me?

In this 20 Minute Mentor, the vice president of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Linda Suskie, will walk you through the key essentials of interpreting and summarizing rubric results so you can better understand how to use this important tool to improve your teaching.


What you will learn

During this 20 minute program, you will learn:
• How to interpret and summarize rubric results, and how to present them in a meaningful chart.
• How to share only the information that audiences will find useful.
• When to use complex statistics and when to avoid them.
• How to present results in a short and simple way.
• How to share the story that the results are telling.
The program also includes supplemental materials that feature examples of rubrics and recommended resources.


To see a complete list of all Magna 20 Minute Mentors, descriptions, presenter biographies, and preview clips, click (http://www.magnapubs.com/mentor/?s=cj&p=email).



Want to make a program available for ongoing training?
Contact us about a Campus Access License to load the CD onto your institution’s internal web site for unlimited, convenient on-demand access to members of the campus community. The Campus Access License is ideal for institutions that want to use the seminar for ongoing group or individual training or to build a library of professional development material for their campus community.


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