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 2025. For session descriptions, objectives, and mentor bios, click on the titles below.
- January 20th - How Can I Re-envision Office Hours to Increase Engagement?*
- January 27th - How Can I Spark and Sustain Engagement in Reluctant Learners?
- February 3rd - How Can I Incorporate Best Practices into My Online Teaching?
- February 10th - What Challenges Do Neurodivergent Students Face in the College Classroom?*
- February 17th - How Can I Create Assignments that Teach Ethical AI Literacy?
- February 24th - How Can I Create Community in My Online Courses?*
- March 3rd - How Can I Alleviate Student Stress and Anxiety in My Class?
- March 10th - How Can I Use Backward Design for Online Discussions?*
- March 17th - How Can AI Feedback Tools and Blended Grading Develop Growth-Minded Students?*
- March 24th - What Assessment Strategies Are Effective for Asynchronous Online Teaching?
- March 31th - Conspicuously Human: How to be You in an AI-Driven Classroom*
- April 7th - How Can I Reframe Online Discussions into Dynamic and Engaging Conversations?*
- April 14th - How Can I Use Surveys and Polls to Support Active Learning?
- April 21st - How Can I Teach AI Prompt Engineering to My Students?
- April 28th - How Can I Assess Active Learning Strategies in the Classroom?
- May 5th - Recharging Your (Personal and Professional) Batteries*
Programs denoted with * are still in production and will be finalized shortly.
We would love to hear your feedback on the usefulness of these sessions. Please send your input to ctli@northshore.edu.
