Professional development opportunities offered by Henry Ford College's Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation
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This 20-Minute Mentor is designed to teach participants how multiculturalism impacts the classroom in a variety of ways with a variety of learning outcomes. Instructors learn to account for the multitude of cultures in the classroom by teaching in a culturally responsive way that ensures that all students have the same opportunity to learn.
In this 20-Minute Mentor, faculty become more aware of cultural differences as well as the intersectionality of all different cultures represented in the classroom to engage with students on a deeper level.
Upon completion of this program, you’ll be able to:
• Learn how to impart intercultural competence skills to students
• Understand how cultural differences impact student’s experience in the classroom
• Incorporate culturally responsive strategies in the classroom
• Recognize how cultural differences are exhibited in the classroom
Link: https://mondaymorningmentors.com
Password: responsive72
Although online learning relies heavily on technological aspects of learning management systems, moving an assignment online requires an intentional focus on the learning goals, the methods of assessment, the interaction pathways provided for students, and the instructional supports offered.
This 20-Minute Mentor details the instructional considerations for moving an assignment online and how to set the stage for online development.
Upon completion of this program, you’ll be able to:
• Recognize critical instructional considerations prior to online assignment design
Link: https://mondaymorningmentors.com
Password: classroom59
What can teachers do to effectively use the time they have available to support their professorial responsibilities? Furthermore, how can teachers become more effective and efficient in all aspects of teaching?
This 20-Minute Mentor imparts advice gleaned from outstanding educators over the past forty years. Participants will identify time-saving ideas that can make them more productive and effective teachers and researchers. Become a more impactful teacher by improving one’s academic career in three key areas – teaching, scholarship, and citizenship.
Upon completion of this program, you’ll be able to:
• Recognize you can do more with the time you have available
Reconsider what you might do to improve your effectiveness as a researcher and writer
Identify which of the tips and suggestions offered might work best for you
Link: https://mondaymorningmentors.com
Password: productive68
The most common complaint students have about online courses is that they felt their instructor wasn’t there. In other words, they felt their instructor was missing, they felt left on their own with no content expert, and that they were expected to just figure it all out for themselves. What students enrolled in online courses really want is a “visible” instructor—one who is present, engaged, active, and is consistently facilitating the course.
This 20-Minute Mentor relates approximately ten small, simple strategies instructors can use to make themselves more visible to students in their online courses, thus creating a virtual classroom of more engaged, involved, and successful students.
Upon completion of this program, you’ll be able to:
• Describe the benefits of incorporating strategies into their teaching to be more visible to their students
• Identify a variety of strategies they can utilize to be more visible to their students
• Describe how the idea of being visible to students directly relates to evidence of engagement of the instructor
• Explain how and why being more visible to students helps with improved learning
Link: https://mondaymorningmentors.com
Paswword: visible411
While metacognition might seem like a buzzword in education, it is truly a key to learning and student success and, in turn, retention. Books like Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn, Make It Stick, and Small Teaching, as well as many articles, emphasize the importance of techniques teachers at all levels can use to help students learn.
This 20-Minute Mentor explains, through the lens of the literature, how the brain processes information and identifies why micro activities are a great method of formative assessment to check in with your students learning and move information closer to long-term memory. Receive multiple ideas for micro activities to use in class, when to schedule these activities, and how to integrate them with the course.
Upon completion of this program, you’ll be able to:
• Define metacognition and explain its role in learning
• Describe how the brain retains and memorizes information
• Identify how micro activities might be integrated into your class
• List tips for how to best develop and integrate micro activities into a course
Link: https://mondaymorningmentors.com
Password: retention52
The discussion board is one of the key areas in any online classroom where truly active learning can take place. But it can be a struggle for students and teachers alike to connect—both in terms of logistical day-to-day tasks, and in terms of higher levels of engagement. So how can we avoid burnout and make the discussion board a place where students are eager to go?
This 20-Minute Mentor offers three strategies to help ensure that instructors are modeling high engagement and expectations, making fruitful connections, and sharing expertise on the discussion board to ensure that the content pushes the conversation further.
Upon completion of this program, you’ll be able to:
• Develop a clear strategy for modeling and tracking interactions on the discussion board
• Create connections on the discussion board through explicit and implicit bridges
• Learn strategies for using the discussion board to share your expertise
Link: https://mondaymorningmentors.com
Password: discussion82
Teaching an effective and engaging synchronous online course can be a difficult task. Live synchronous class sessions, where participants are logged in and interacting at the same time, can provide a high-touch element previously missing from online instruction. However, it can be difficult to strategically structure an active learning environment during synchronous instruction.
How do instructors incorporate active learning strategies synchronously?
This 20-Minute Mentor offers a foundational understanding of synchronous instruction and offers
several techniques for enhancing synchronous interaction by focusing on lesson planning, enacting, and assessing active strategies.
Upon completion of this program, you’ll be able to:
• Understand how to holistically design a synchronous course experience
• Discover strategies to enhance class time and student interaction during synchronous instruction
• Learn how to create an active climate in an asynchronous course
Link: https://mondaymorningmentors.com
Password: strategies32
Multiple-choice exam questions can be an effective way of measuring student performance and learning. Refreshing and reinvigorating exam question sets provide students with more effective examinations. But what can instructors do to develop better exam questions?
This 20-Minute Mentor (opens in a new window) shares suggestions for creating and evaluating exam question sets, with an emphasis on writing good multiple-choice exam questions. These recommendations will help instructors write improved questions to more effectively assess their students’ knowledge of course material.
Link: https://mondaymorningmentors.com
Password: performance58
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