Category: Personal Development
Personal Development Courses for Teachers and Faculty
Discover the best personal development strategies for teachers and faculty with our online courses. Advance your career with our training!
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From Research to Practice: Facilitating Career Development through Promotion Accountability Groups
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Discover how Promotion Accountability Groups (PAGs) provide a 100% successful, peer-supported approach to the complex promotion and tenure process, featuring research-backed strategies and actionable insights you can apply immediately to advance your academic career.
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How Can I Use AI Tools to Better Manage My Time?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Discover practical AI solutions in just 20 minutes with Michael Strawser, PhD to combat faculty burnout and optimize time management. Gain insights and tools to streamline workloads, reduce burnout risk, and focus on impactful teaching, ensuring a balanced and rewarding experience while delivering top-notch education to students.
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Leadership Microcredential
- $299.00
- Empower yourself to lead with confidence, drive impactful change, and foster a collaborative, thriving campus environment by mastering proven strategies and insights from experienced higher education leaders with our Leadership Microcredential. Additionally, earn a digital badge that showcases your commitment to excellence.
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Career Development Microcredential
- $299.00
- Unlock your potential with our Career Development Microcredential, gaining expert strategies to overcome mid-career challenges, boost visibility, master grant writing, and advance your professional growth with a valuable digital badge to enhance your academic portfolio.
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How You Can Use AI to Maximize Time Management
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Discover how Artificial Intelligence can be a cost-effective resource, easing faculty workloads, combating burnout, and enhancing productivity, ultimately ensuring a better educational experience for both educators and students in today's challenging academic landscape.
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What Are 14 Strategies to Take My Teaching Career from Good to Great?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For any instructor looking to build or rejuvenate their career, this 20-Minute Mentor shares advice from successful faculty about strategies that can bring success in areas including productivity, effectiveness, and career satisfaction.
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What are 3 Calendar Hacks Faculty Can Use to Avoid Stress and Burnout?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor shows how using a calendar effectively can provide boundaries and freedom, turning burnout and stress into efficient time management and heightened productivity.
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How Can You Become More Intentional About Culturally Responsive Teaching?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty desiring to improve student success by creating a more student-focused approach to teaching, this 20-Minute Mentor delivers strategies that address diversity through the adaptation of content, instruction, and materials of Culturally Responsive Teaching and its link to student success.
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How Can I Apply a Resilient Mindset to My Teaching Practice?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty experiencing burnout from tough pandemic teaching conditions, this 20-Minute Mentor shows you how one educator embraced resiliency to create a positive outlook in a difficult time.
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The Wellbeing Elixir
- $299.00
- Help your team fight anxiety, burnout, and other mental health challenges Now’s the Time to Make Mental Health a Priority for Your Faculty and Staff One thing that is common across higher education right now is burnout. This is a sensitive issue because it affects everyone differently and no one really wants to talk about it very much. What would happen if your faculty and staff were rejuvenated and fully ready to meet the challenges ahead? What if they could spend one hour a month to get the well-being guidance, they so desperately need from education experts? How would that impact productivity on your campus? Right now, Magna is offering a special course presented by educators, for educators.
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How Can I Be a More Productive and Effective Teacher?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty who are looking for career advice and professional development, this 20-Minute Mentor presents expert advice directly from outstanding research professors during the past forty years.
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The Advantages of Virtual Meetings
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Holding meetings online may be a necessity in times of remote work and social distancing, but have you considered that virtual meetings might have an advantage over the in-person alternative? This Magna Online Seminar reviews the pros and cons of virtual meetings and provides participants with tips and best practices leading to a successful virtual meeting.
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Taking My Career to the Next Level: Grant Writing Tips and Resources
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Research funding is critical yet many faculty do not know where to begin to look for funders. This Magna Online Seminar will cover the basics of and provide practical advice for applying for grants to fund research.
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Taking My Career to the Next Level: Educational Consulting
- $39.00 – $799.00
- If you are curious about leveraging your higher-education experience into another career, this online seminar provides direct guidance about why and how to execute a career change from a former educator now leading a successful consulting practice.
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How Can I Extend My Research to the Public with a Podcast?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For higher education professionals who want to increase exposure for their academic research beyond their disciplines and to a broader public audience, this 20-Minute Mentor provides step-by-step instruction on both creating and producing a podcast.
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Talking about Student Evaluation Results: What to Say and How to Say It
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Explore ways to communicate about rating results using three scenarios based on common situations, with the goal of making the exchange a constructive conversation about teaching and learning.
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Considering the Courage and Practice of Teaching
- $39.00 – $299.00
- Parker Palmer, PhD, and Maryellen Weimer, PhD, talk about the underpinnings of their approaches to their work as teachers. They discuss the critical role of self-knowledge as a precursor to your work with students, as well as why it is the key to growth and development as teachers.
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How Can I Set Time Management Priorities in Online Teaching?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Faculty need efficient instruction practices when teaching online. Learn proven time management practices for your online courses. As a result, you will do a better job of providing feedback and achieving instructional priorities without spending all of your time in front of the computer.
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How Can Online Instructors Better Manage Their Workload?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- About 60-70% of faculty believe that teaching online courses is more work intensive than teaching face-to-face courses. Factors include course preparation before teaching, managing sometimes unwieldy online discussions, and even fielding student questions around the clock.
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How Can I Become a Better Online Instructor?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This program will present five practical strategies to level up online teaching so that instructors experience greater satisfaction in their work and create more rewarding learning experiences for their students.
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What is the Best Teaching Advice I Ever Received?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- What things can teachers do to become more effective in the classroom? For faculty who are interested in becoming a better teacher, this presentation shares teaching advice collected from outstanding research professors.
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What is the Best Scholarship Advice I Ever Received?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- What things can teachers do to become more effective scholars? For faculty who are interested in becoming a better and more efficient researcher and writer, this presentation shares scholarship advice assembled from outstanding research professors.
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What is the Best Citizenship Advice I Ever Received?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Balancing teaching, scholarship, and citizenship responsibilities is challenging for college professors. What can teachers do to more effectively fulfill their citizenship responsibilities?
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What Are the Basics of Podcasting?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Discover how to evaluate your content in the context of a podcast and determine if this is an appropriate tool for your content delivery. Gain an idea of the benefits to podcasting, both as a content delivery platform and a way for students to receive content in an efficient and convenient way.
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How Can Talking through Course Evaluations Improve My Teaching?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This program explores three conversations faculty might have when discussing course evaluation results—the conversation with ones self about negative feedback, the conversation with an academic leader about evaluations, and the conversation with students about course ratings.
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What Behavioral Changes Can I Make to Inspire Enthusiasm in My Classroom?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Explore the phenomena of emotional contagion and affective crossover, both rooted in the emerging science of emotion, to develop techniques that enable faculty to inspire students, foster enthusiasm, and motivate learning.
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What Can I Do to Manage and Reduce Academic Job Stress?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Faculty will gain practical strategies for managing and reducing stress to maximize their impact in their position and obtain a better sense of wellbeing.
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How Can Preparing to Teach Online Improve My Face-to-face Teaching?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-minute session, learn how the process of teaching online can improve your face-to-face teaching.
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How Can I Most Effectively Fulfill My Citizenship Requirements?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-minute session, the goal is to help you think about ways you can be more effective in your citizenship responsibilities.
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What are 10 Tips to Collaborate with Colleagues?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-minute session, the goal is to help consider ways to improve collaboration with colleagues. Faculty will explore how and where collaboration is appropriate, and how to get the most out of collaboration.
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What are Five Tips for Creating Videos that Promote Knowledge and Expand My Reach?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Academic knowledge rarely permeates into mainstream society, much less the media. To get publicity, more grant and funding opportunities, and to effectively disseminate knowledge, instructors must understand how video plays a major role. This program discusses five strategies you can use to create videos that reach more people and answer common problems.
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How Can I Repurpose My Content into Videos That Get Viewed (and Shared)?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Often teachers and researchers work tirelessly to make an impact through video, but its reach is typically limited to the classroom or institution. In the information age, knowledge is power. This program provides proven methods for creating impactful video content that gets viewed and shared by a broader audience.
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How Can I Teach Routine Courses with Energy and Enthusiasm?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This presentation equips you with an enlightened understanding of where you are as a teacher, where you want to go, and how to get there. You'll see how to work around your weaknesses and maybe even accept things you cant change. You'll develop different strategies to keep your teaching engaging through midcareer.
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How Can I Move My Teaching Forward at Midcareer?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Teachers will learn how to keep themselves present—when they go to class tomorrow and for the balance of their careers—by following the presenters down-to-earth diagnosis of the problem and prescription for solutions.
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