20 Minute Mentor - Online Faculty Professional Development - Spring 2019 Schedule

The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (CTLI) offers faculty a professional development series from Magna Publications, called the 20 Minute Mentor. The goal of the 20 Minute Mentor series is to offer faculty practical professional development opportunities in twenty minute snippets that can be accessed from anywhere and at any time during the given week. Session topics cover the areas of student engagement, teaching and learning, teaching online, assessment and learning goals, and classroom management.

Information on how to access the 20 Minute Mentor sessions is available each week in the Bulletin and the iDevelop e-newsletter.

New video presentations (with supplementary materials) go live at 10:00am each Monday morning and are only accessible through Sunday. 

The following sessions are on the schedule for spring 2019. For session descriptions, objectives, and mentor bios, click on the titles below. 

• January 28th - What Can I Do to Manage and Reduce Academic Job Stress?
• February 4th - What Behavioral Changes Can I Make to Inspire Enthusiasm in My Classroom?
• February 11th - What Brain-Based Techniques Can I Use to Engage Students During Class?
• February 18th - How Can I Effectively Supervise Teaching and Research Assistants?
• February 25th - What are 10 Tips to Collaborate with Colleagues?
• March 4th - Why is Intercultural Competence Important and How Can it Improve my Teaching?
• March 11th - What are Five Methods that Help Students Become More Effective Learners?
• March 18th - How Can Improving Student Feedback Improve the Quality of Each Educational Encounter?
• March 25th - How Can I Leverage Force Multipliers in the Classroom?
• April 1st - How Do I Promote Civil and Thoughtful Engagement in the Classroom?
• April 8th - How Can I Most Effectively Fulfill My Citizenship Requirements?
• April 15th - What 5 Play-based Activities Can I Use to Create an Active, Learning-centered Class?
• April 22nd - Copyright Crash Course: How Can I Stay on the Right Side of the Law?
• April 29th - Why Should I Migrate from Traditional Resources to OER in My Courses?
• May 6th - How Can Preparing to Teach Online Improve My Face-to-face Teaching?
• May 13th - How Can I Plan (or Revise) My Courses More Efficiently?

We would love to hear your feedback on the usefulness of these sessions. Please send your input to ctli@northshore.edu.