Monday Morning Mentor Program

Delivering fast, focused, high-quality training for faculty every week of the academic year

The Monday Morning Mentor program empowers faculty to start each week with a fast, dynamic and convenient professional development program that addresses some of today’s most important academic issues. The University Teaching Center is excited to provide faculty with this unique and efficient professional development opportunity.

Every Monday, faculty will receive an email with a link to a Monday Morning Mentor program. Each webinar is a focused, fact-filled, 20-minute on-demand video mentoring session and includes supplemental materials, the PowerPoint slides and transcript. The on-demand video will be available for viewing throughout the week, Monday morning through Sunday night. The supplemental materials and the PowerPoint slides can also be downloaded during this time.

The topics that will be presented during the current semester as well as those from prior semesters are listed below.

Watch your email every Monday morning for the link and sign-on instructions for the week’s webinar!

Monday Morning Mentor Schedule and Topics

UT faculty members may request copies of the transcripts, PowerPoint presentations and supplemental materials from past topics by emailing universityteachingcenter@utoledo.edu.

SPRING, 2022	TOPIC OF 20-MINUTE MENTOR PROGRAM
Jan. 17, 2022	How Can I Build an Antiracist Syllabus?
Jan. 24, 2022	How Can I Plan (or Revise) My Courses More Efficiently?
Jan. 31, 2022	How Do I Structure Virtual Office Hours to Promote Student Use?
Feb. 7, 2022	How Do I Create a Class That Support First-Year Students?
Feb. 14, 2022	What’s Different About Teaching Online, and How Do I Change So My Students Succeed?*
Feb. 21, 2022	How Can Disruptive Innovation Impact STEM Education?
Feb. 28, 2022	How Can I Assess Students in my Online Classes through Student-created Videos?
Mar. 7, 2022	What Are Practical Solutions for Managing My Online Teaching Workload?
Mar. 14, 2022	How Can I Write Better Exam Questions to Measure Student Performance and Learning?
Mar. 21, 2022	What Are Active Strategies for Structuring a Synchronous Class?
Mar. 28, 2022	What Are Three Proven Ways to Manage My Online Discussion Board and Actively Engage Students?
Apr. 4, 2022	How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention?
Apr. 11, 2022	How Can Online Instructors Make Themselves More Visible to Students?
Apr. 18, 2022	How Can I Be a More Productive and Effective Teacher?
Apr. 25, 2022	How Can I Redesign a Classroom Assignment for Online Teaching?
May 2, 2022	What Culturally Responsive Teaching Techniques Can I Use to Improve Learning?

Please Note: Programs denoted with a * are still in production and will be finalized shortly. Thank you!

Fall, 2021	TOPIC OF 20-MINUTE MENTOR PROGRAM
Aug. 23, 2021	How Can I Create a Meaningful Online Learning Experience for Students?
Aug. 30, 2021	How Can Understanding Group Dynamics Lead to Better Group Work?
Sep. 6, 2021	How Will OER Benefit the 21st Century Student?
Sep. 13, 2021	How Can I Increase Exam Security with Custom Question Banks?
Sep. 20, 2021	How Can Discussion Responses Give Narrative Shape to an Online Class?
Sep. 27, 2021	How Can I Adapt My Teaching So Students Thrive in a Polysynchronous Classroom?
Oct. 4, 2021	How Can I Ensure Academic Integrity in the Online Classroom?*
Oct. 11, 2021	How Can I Teach Soft Skills to Better Prepare Students for the Workplace?
Oct. 18, 2021	How Can I Encourage Students to Stay Connected with Course Content After Class?
Oct. 25, 2021	How Can I Effectively Move Peer Reviews Online?
Nov. 1, 2021	How Can I Develop Opportunity-Minded Learners?*
Nov. 8, 2021	How Can I Manage the Disconnect Between Faculty and Student Perceptions of Rigor to Increase Learning?
Nov. 15, 2021	How Can I Help Students Who Are Struggling with Online Learning?
Nov. 22, 2021	How Can I Grade In Less Time with Greater Impact?*
Nov. 29, 2021	What are the Differences Between Synchronous and Asynchronous Teaching, and How Do I Best Choose the Format for My Online Class?
Dec. 6, 2021	What Can I Do to Manage and Reduce Academic Job Stress?

Spring, 2021	TOPIC OF 20-MINUTE MENTOR PROGRAM
Jan. 25, 2021	How Can I Make My Video Lectures Effective and Engaging?
Feb. 1, 2021	How Can You Help Online Students Be More Successful In Your Course?
Feb. 8, 2021	How Do I Create Questions that Stimulate Engaging Conversations in Online Discussion Boards?
Feb. 15, 2021	How Can I Maximize the First 10 Minutes of Remote Teaching To Spark Student Engagement?
Feb. 22, 2021	How Can I Optimize Announcements to Help Online Students Navigate My Class?
Mar. 1, 2021	How Can I Guide Online Learning by Engaging with Students?
Mar. 8, 2021	What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
Mar. 15, 2021	How Can Effective Note-taking Improve Online Student Learning?
Mar. 22, 2021	How Can Educational Programs Use Backwards Design to Drive Learning and Student Success?
Mar. 29, 2021	How Can a Teaching Calendar Help Me Be More Effective and Efficient in the Online Classroom?
Apr. 5, 2021	How Can I Gauge Online Learning Through Engaging Activities and Assignments?
Apr. 12, 2021	What Are 5 Easy-to-use Technologies That Have a Big Impact on Learning in the Online Classroom?
Apr. 19, 2021	How Can I Extend My Research to the Public With a Podcast?
Apr. 26, 2021	How Can Faculty Advocates Promote Online Education on Campus?
May 3, 2021	What Is the Best Citizenship Advice I Ever Received?
May 10, 2021	What Is the Best Leadership Advice I Ever Received?

Fall, 2020	TOPIC OF 20-MINUTE MENTOR PROGRAM
Aug. 24, 2020	How Can I Add Choice to My Course to Give Students Autonomy and Motivate Deep Learning?
Aug. 31, 2020	How Can We Support Home-Schooled Students as They Transition to College?
Sept. 7, 2020	How Can I Help Online Students Develop Autonomy and Take More Responsibility for Their Learning?
Sept. 14, 2020	Why Should I Migrate from Traditional Resources to OER in My Courses?
Sept. 21, 2020	How Can I Get Students to Engage with Course Content Before Class?
Sept. 28, 2020	How Can I Use LMS Intelligent Agents to Increase Interaction in My Online Classes?
Oct. 5, 2020	How Can I Use Simple Gamification Strategies to Engage My Students?
Oct. 12, 2020	How Can Screencasted Feedback Enhance Student Comprehension?
Oct. 19, 2020	How Can I Use Technology to Foster the Emotional Processing of Course Content?
Oct. 26, 2020	How Do I Go Beyond the Basics of Universal Design for Learning?
Nov. 2, 2020	How Do I Build Trust with a Personal Users’ Guide?
Nov. 9, 2020	How Do I Infuse Equity into Any Online Class?
Nov. 16, 2020	What are 3 Keys to Teaching Intercultural Competence?
Nov. 23, 2020	How Can I Build Engagement in My Online Classes through Student-Created Videos?
Nov. 30, 2020	What is the Best Scholarship Advice I Ever Received?
Dec. 7, 2020	How Can I Repurpose My Content into Videos that Get Viewed (and Shared)?

SPRING, 2020	TOPIC OF 20-MINUTE MENTOR PROGRAM
January 27, 2020	What Is the Best Teaching Advice I Ever Received?
February 3, 2020	How Can Online Instructors Better Manage Their Workload?
February 10, 2020	How Can I Cost-Effectively Use Virtual Reality to Enhance Instruction?
February 17, 2020	How Can Media Richness Theory and Social Presence Theory Improve My Instruction?
February 24, 2020	What Technology and Tools Do I Need to Create a Podcast for My Students?
March 2, 2020	How Can Change Management Principles Help New Educational Programs Succeed?
March 9, 2020	How Can I Become a Better Online Instructor?
March 16, 2020	How Can I Write a Course Syllabus That’s Worth Reading?
March 23, 2020	What Teaching Strategies Help Engage All Learners Online?
March 30, 2020	How Do I Master Mastery Grading?
April 6, 2020	How Can I Spark Conversation in the Classroom?
April 13, 2020	How Do I Lead Change from the Middle?
April 20, 2020	How Can Universities Empower Adult Learners?
April 27, 2020	How Can I Be My Own Instructional Designer?
May 4, 2020	How Can Post-Exam Reviews Become a Powerful Teaching Strategy?
May 11, 2020	How Can I Use LMS Conditional Releases to Efficiently and Intentionally Engage My Students?

Fall, 2019	TOPIC OF 20-MINUTE MENTOR PROGRAM
August 26, 2019	How Do I Create a Class that Supports First-year Students?
September 2, 2019	Beyond Syllabus Policies: What Strategies Help Students Take Responsibility for Learning?
September 9, 2019	How Do I Set Students up for Success in Online Courses?
September 16, 2019	How Can I Encourage the Growth Mindset with Three Simple Tips?
September 23, 2019	How Can I Increase Student Completion Rates in Online Learning?
September 30, 2019	How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention?
October 7, 2019	How Can I Build Community with My Online Faculty?
October 14, 2019	What Culturally Responsive Teaching Techniques Can I Use to Improve Learning?
October 21, 2019	How Can I Create a Platform for Difficult Conversations in the Online Classroom?
October 28, 2019	How Can I Manage the Disconnect Between Faculty and Student Perceptions of Rigor to Increase Learning?
November 4, 2019	How Can I Ensure Academic Honesty in My Online Assessments?
November 11, 2019	What Can Engagement in Games Teach Me About Engagement in My Courses?
November 18, 2019	How Can I Create an Effective Syllabus for My Online Class?
November 25, 2019	How Do I Design Effective Combinations of Gamified Elements to Encourage Deeper Learning?
December 2, 2019	How Does Consistency Improve Quality in Online Courses and Programs?
December 9, 2019	How Can I Teach Soft Skills to Better Prepare Students for the Workplace?

Spring, 2019	TOPIC OF 20-MINUTE MENTOR PROGRAM
January 28, 2019	What Can I Do to Manage and Reduce Academic Job Stress?
February 4, 2019	What Behavioral Changes Can I Make to Inspire Enthusiasm in My Classroom?
February 11, 2019	What Brain-Based Techniques Can I Use to Engage Students During Class?
February 18, 2019	How Can I Effectively Supervise Teaching and Research Assistants?
February 25, 2019	What are 10 Tips to Collaborate with Colleagues?
March 4, 2019	Why is Intercultural Competence Important and How Can it Improve my Teaching?
March 11, 2019	What are Five Methods that Help Students Become More Effective Learners?
March 18, 2019	How Can Improving Student Feedback Improve the Quality of Each Educational Encounter?
March 25, 2019	How Can I Leverage Force Multipliers in the Classroom?
April 1, 2019	How Do I Promote Civil and Thoughtful Engagement in the Classroom?
April 8, 2019	How Can I Most Effectively Fulfill My Citizenship Requirements?
April 15, 2019	What 5 Play-based Activities Can I Use to Create an Active, Learning-centered Class?
April 22, 2019	Copyright Crash Course: How Can I Stay on the Right Side of the Law?
April 29, 2019	Why Should I Migrate from Traditional Resources to OER in My Courses?
May 6, 2019	How Can Preparing to Teach Online Improve My Face-to-face Teaching?
May 13, 2019	How Can I Plan (or Revise) My Courses More Efficiently?

Fall, 2018
September 3, 2018	How Can I Promote Enrollment and Retention in Challenging Courses that Motivate Instead of Frustrate?
September 10, 2018	What are Five Tips for Creating Videos that Promote Knowledge and Expand My Reach?
September 17, 2018	How Will OER Benefit the 21st Century Student?
September 24, 2018	How Can Livestreaming Bring New Life to My Teaching?
October 1, 2018	What is Gamification and How Can it Promote a Growth Mindset?
October 8, 2018	How Can the Three C's of Course Design Enhance Students' Online Performance?
October 15, 2018	How Can I Use Simple Gamification Strategies to Engage my Students?
October 22, 2018	How Can I Get Students to Engage with Course Content Before Class?
October 29, 2018	How Can I Resolve Difficult Situations in the Classroom?
November 5, 2018	How Should I Manage My Online Course?
November 12, 2018	How Can I Engage the Emotions of My Students to Maximize Learning?
November 19, 2018	How Can I Gain Valuable Insight from Course Evaluations?
November 26, 2018	How Can I Encourage Students to Stay Connected with Course Content After Class?
December 3, 2018	How Can Talking through Course Evaluations Improve my Teaching?
December 10, 2018	How Can Promoting Academic Integrity Improve Learning Outcomes for Students?

Spring, 2018
January 29, 2018	How Do I Create the Ideal Learning Environment for Modern Learners?
February 5, 2018	How Can I Teach Routine Courses with Energy and Enthusiasm?
February 12, 2018	How Can I Use Controversial Issues to Build Cognitive Skills in My Students?
February 19, 2018	How Can I Leverage Force Multipliers in the Classroom?
February 26, 2018	How Do I Create Social Presence in my Online Classes?
March 5, 2018	How Do I Effectively Review Online Courses and Programs for Quality?
March 12, 2018	How Can I Make My Multiple Choice Tests More Effective?
March 19, 2018	How Can I Be an Effective Mentor?
March 26, 2018	How Can I Engage Generation C?
April 2, 2018	How Can I Revitalize My Classroom with Workforce Development Concepts?
April 9, 2018	How Do I Earn Swift Trust in my Online Classes?
April 16, 2018	How Do Mini-lectures Improve Student Engagement?
April 23, 2018	How Can I Move my Teaching Forward at Midcareer?
April 30, 2018	How Can I Attract and Retain Adjunct Online Faculty?
May 7, 2018	How Can I Write Better Letters of Recommendation?
May 14, 2018	Copyright Crash Course: How Can I Stay on the Right Side of the Law?

Fall, 2017
September 4, 2017	What are the Secrets to Providing Highly Effective Feedback to Students?
September 11, 2017	How Can I Lay the Groundwork for Positive Technology Change?
September 18, 2017	How Do I Design Innovative Assignments to Foster Learning in the Online Classroom?
September 25, 2017	How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Minutes?
October 2, 2017	How Do I Create a Lively, Yet Functional, Online Classroom?
October 9, 2017	How Should I Manage Conflict Within My Department?
October 16, 2017	How Can I Build Momentum for Change with Short-term Wins?
October 23, 2017	What Are the Secrets to Making Highly Effective Educational Videos?
October 30, 2017	How Do I Align Learning Objectives with Technology Using Backward Design?
November 6, 2017	How Do I Overcome Faculty Barriers to Online Teaching?
November 13, 2017	How Can I Make My Exams More Accessible?
November 27, 2017	How Do I Establish an Engaging Atmosphere in My Online Classroom?
December 4, 2017	How Can I Make My Exams More About Learning, Less About Grades?
December 11, 2017	What Do Adjunct Faculty Need to Be Successful in the Online Classroom?

Spring, 2017
January 23, 2017	What Is the Role of Communication In Teaching Excellence?
January 30, 2017	How Can I Keep Students Engaged With Online Instructor Presence?
February 6, 2017	Is There a Solution to Students Multitasking in Class?
February 13, 2017	What Do Adjunct Faculty Need to Be Successful in the Online Classroom?
February 20, 2017	How Do I Create and Implement Microlectures?
February 27, 2017	How Can I Align Technology with My Pedagogical Goals?
March 6, 2017	How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?
March 20, 2017	How Can Grading Policies Influence Student Learning?
March 27, 2017	How Can I Evaluate Online Teaching If I Haven’t Taught Online?
April 3, 2017	How Can I Design Copyright-Compliant Courses?
April 10, 2017	How Can I Get Useful Feedback to Improve My Online Teaching?
April 17, 2017	How Do I Monitor and Support Online Faculty?
April 24, 2017	How Do I Adapt an Online Faculty Peer Review Tool?
May 1, 2017	How Can I Identify and Overcome Obstacles to Change?
May 8, 2017	How Can Student Learning Begin Before the First Day of Class?

Fall, 2016
October 3, 2016	How Can I Design Critical Thinking Into My Courses?
October 10, 2016	How Can I Use Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATS's) Online?
October 17, 2016	How Can Course Design Help Prevent Online Cheating?
October 24, 2016	How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Objective Items?
October 31, 2016	Beyond the Discussion Board: How Can I Engage Online Students?
November 7, 2016	How Can I Make Online Group Projects More Effective?
November 14, 2016	What Ethical Issues Lurk in My Grading Policy?
November 21, 2016	What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?
November 28, 2016	How Can I Design Academic Integrity into My Online Programs?
December 5, 2016	How Can I Use Peer Monitoring to Improve Online Teaching?

Spring, 2016
January 25, 2016	How Do Master Teachers Create a Positive Classroom?
February 1, 2016	How Do I Assign Students to Groups?
February 8, 2016	How Do I Get Students to Come to Class Prepared?
February 15, 2016	What Key Concepts Improve Student Learning and Memory?
February 22, 2016	How Do I Create Engaging Threaded Discussion Questions?
February 29, 2016	How Can I Effectively Use Class Preparation Assignments?
March 7, 2016	How Can I Make the Activities in My Course More Inclusive?
March 14, 2016	How Do I Build Community in My Classroom?
March 21, 2016	How Do I Give Feedback that Improves Student Writing?
March 28, 2016	How Can I Enhance Class Using Story, Popular Media and Objects?
April 4, 2016	How Do I Prepare a SoTL Article for Publication?
April 11, 2016	What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?
April 18, 2016	How Do Prepared Students Change the Way I Teach?
April 25, 2016	Is Your Syllabus Sending the Wrong Message?

Fall, 2015
August 24, 2015	How Do I Use VoiceThread for Online Student Discussions?
August 31, 2015	What If a Student Asks a Question I Can't Answer?
September 7, 2015	What Should I Do When a Student Cheats?
September 14, 2015	How Can I Measure My Faculty Development Center's Impact?
September 21, 2015	What is the Best Way to Grade Participation?
September 28, 2015	How Can I Use Technology to Improve Learning?
October 5, 2015	How Do I Create a Climate for Learning in My Classroom?
October 12, 2015	Can Service-Learning Work in My Discipline?
October 19, 2015	What Can I Learn From Student Ratings?
October 26, 2015	How Can I Reduce Apathy and Increase Motivation?
November 2, 2015	How Do I Get Started with Service-Learning?
November 9, 2015	How Can I Connect Students' Interests to Course Content?
November 16, 2015	How Can I Better Manage Difficult Conversations with Faculty?
November 23, 2015	How Can I Build a Successful Faculty Development Program?
November 30, 2015	In Blended Courses, What Should Students Do Online?
December 7, 2015	How Do I Design Courses to Enhance Student Veterans' Success?

Spring, 2015
March 2, 2015	How Do I Develop a High-Impact Capstone Course?
March 9, 2015	How Can I Use Twitter to Improve Teaching and Learning?
March 16, 2015	Are Group Exams a Viable Testing Option?
March 23, 2015	I’m Teaching Online Next Term. What Do I Have to Know?
March 30, 2015	How Can I Help Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills?
April 6, 2015	How Can I Use Student Feedback to Improve My Teaching?
April 13, 2015	How Can I Incorporate a Group Poster Session into my Class?
April 20, 2015	What Should I Do When a Student Challenges My Authority?
April 27, 2015	How Can I Improve Lessons with a 4-step Plan?
May 4, 2015	What Works and What Doesn't When Teaching Large Classes?
May 11, 2015	How Can Google Docs Help Foster Productive Collaboration?

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