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Vol. 19, No. 4 TFS Spectrum: In proofinig, estimated release date: July 25th.
Just Added to E-Solutions Shop: The "TFS Solutionary," 540 pages of teaching improvement ideas, tips, and strategies. Now only $29.95. More Info Site Use Licensee for Institutions now posted for immediate purchase and download.
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 Attention Chief Academic Officers, Professional Developers and Faculty
Faculty Comment: "Thanks for the energy and positivity that your publication [TFS] brings to collegiate teaching." Dee Duis, Faculty, Davenport University
Become a TFS Member and empower your SMEs with TFS Spectrum periodical to inspire students and lead, manage, communicate, create, and evaluate learning and learning outcomes.
Teaching For Success Spectrum is an electronic periodical composed of six issues (6-8 pages per issue) with a generous unlimited site use license that allows great flexibility in delivering the TFS teaching improvement ideas, tips, principles, and strategies to your faculty. More than a dozen faculty, partner authors at a wonderful cross section of colleges and universities supply these practical ideas on teaching improvement.
In addition to the obvious value of providing practical teaching improvement ideas to faculty (increasing student retention), TFS encourages and inspires faculty to adopt a more innovative, creative, and improvement-oriented mindset. Such a positive mindset is crucial to fighting the negative, energy-draining effects of the lack-, loss-, and limitation-messages that we now are constantly bombarded by in the media.
Or if you are a faculty member particularly an adjunct or part-time subject matter expert (SME), you will learn how to benefit from all Teaching For Success, TFS resources, designed to help you achieve the outcomes you desire easier, better, and faster that you thought possible.
At Last, Professional Teaching Skill Development Specifically Targeted for Adjunct and Part-time Faculty (SMEs) in Higher Education
This astonishingly practical and effective teaching improvement resource was first published in 1988. It's Teaching For Success Spectrum and it can provide your faculty with: How-to, Practical Ideas for Improving Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
TFS is part inspiration, part training, and all solid professional development.
OK, What Exactly is TFS?
1. A family of innovative, up-to-the-minute teaching improvement resources created especially for adjunct and part-time faculty serving in higher education. Also useful for full-time faculty and high school instructors.
2. An Online, Membership-based Bimonthly Electronic Periodical, ISSN 1084-0427. Adobe Acrobat format with generous Site Use License for Unlimited Distribution, Issue Duplication and Printing. Only restriction: Please don't give it away to other institutions.
3. An online solution store with a major source for in-depth, everyday teaching- skill enhancement handbooks known as QuickStudies.
4. And our energy and skill-building, Quick Tip series designed to empower faculty with practical, top-notch, time and effort saving, teaching tips and super-effective instructional approaches.
5. All TFS resources are specifically designed to speak to and engage busy, adjunct and part-time faculty with little time for professional development. TFS is uniquely based on the foundational set of pillars of good teaching whether online or classroom style. These pillars are called Critical Success Factors (CSFs). They are:
• Leadership
• Management
• Context and Content Analysis
• Instructional Design
• Communication
• Testing and Evaluation
These six CSFs provide a logical and understandable structure to teaching improvement. At last, someone has made sense out of the sometimes chaotic field of professional development for part-time and adjunct faculty.
6. TFS is about applying teaching improvement ideas not just reading about them. Exclusive with TFS beginning with Volume 19, The, "Success Through Action: Bonus Gold Section" Click here for sample.
7. Announcing for 2008-09 Academic Year new QuickStudies and Quick Tips. They are on-target reports, papers and professional teaching success documents designed to help faculty further improve their teaching skills in specific and frequently used areas of teaching. Current offerings can be seen by clicking on any title below "E-solutions Shop" left-hand column
Practical Benefits
Member Institutions are provided annually with six, six to eight page newsletter style electronic periodical or sometimes called E-zine Teaching For Success Spectrum, ISSN 1084-0427.
Click here for FREE sample. In addition to Teaching For Success Spectrum in Adobe Acrobat format, members receive either a singe- or multi-campus site use license allowing member institution very liberal rights to distribute, copy, post and print an UNLIMITED number of copies for their faculty, admin, and staff.
Teaching For Success Spectrum issue may be posted on a members website, emailed to faculty and printed as needed. There in no password requirement needed to open and read TFS issues.
Yes, this is risk for us but making TFS easy to read and access is a very high priority. And to further promote your faculty reading and applying TFS we provide each member with a FREE Content Summary text file to be used to easily and effectively internally marketing TFS to your faculty. No other publisher gives you this much help.
Breaking News
Dr. Andrei Aleinikov, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and International Academy of Genius, Monterey, California featured in the Vol. 19, No. 4. of Teaching For Success.
His latest article, "How GEGA Super Charges Learning" will teach your faculty how to set the stage for reaching amazing learning outcomes this term.
TFS is One Educator's Lifelong Mission to Assist Faculty to Optimize Teaching and Learning
TFS is the brainchild of one educator/publisher's lifelong mission to improve teaching and learning in higher education. And, to do so by helping often- neglected adjunct and part-time faculty to achieve greater success with their students.
Penny A. and Jack H. Shrawder have been publishing TFS since 1988 are considered by many to be the part-time and adjunct faculty development publishers.
What Can TFS Do For My Institution?
It can:
- Inspire
- Inform
- Motivate
- Train to Improve Classroom Teaching
- Coach Instructors in the Art of Online Teaching
- Energize
- Bring Together
- And Appreciate…Your faculty
What Can TFS Do For Me as an Individual Faculty?
It can:
- Inspire
- Inform
- Energize
- Suggest Solutions
- Deepen Levels of Understanding
- Show How to Succeed
- Publish Your Ideas
- And Appreciate…You!
You'll be in great company when you join TFS. Here's a brief list of recent new member colleges and universities:
- Hawkeye Community College, IA
- Western Wyoming Community College, WY
- Johnson County Community College, KS
- Madison Area Technical College, WI
- Baker College, MI
- Columbia College, MO
- Lansing Community College, MI
- Reading Area Community College, PA
- Oakland Community College, MI
- Lone Star College, TX
- Honolulu Community College, HI
- Prairie State College, IL
- Genesee Community College, NY
- Northcentral Technical College, WI
The Top Eight FAQs
1. Aren't newsletters old fashioned and a relic of the preinternet boom?
No, not by a long shot. There are thousands of niche publications in newsletter, periodical format similar to TFS that serve a specific information necessity cheaply and effectively. We all need to feed our minds from a smorgasbord of positive and inspiring information, tips, strategies and improvement ideas no matter what our profession.
The need to set and reach desirable personal and professional goals is with us now more than ever. The news is so negative today from every point on the media compass that reading a positive success building resources like TFS is like taking a cool, calming deep breath of fresh air in the midst the choking, superheated, polluted air of a summer heat wave.
Top professionals use newsletters and other media materials as a way to keep up and keep growing. Why not see what TFS can do for your part-time and adjunct faculty who are hungry for success guidance.
The current TFS issue is Volume 19, No. 3. Click Here for Free Sample.
2. What about teaching online classes? What can TFS do for these instructors?
We dedicate approximately 1/3 of each issues space to ideas and tips for online instructors. We recognize that more and more adjuncts are being trained or asked to teach online. TFS can help keep the innovative online teaching improvement process going full speed at your college. Since many instructors need skills in teaching both traditional and online courses TFS provides an outstanding mix of information. And while the teaching context changes with online delivery the principles and processes by which students learn does not change. So many teaching improvement ideas found in TFS apply to many teaching venues.
3. What do you offer in addition to your TFS Spectrum Periodical?
The links of the left side of this page will take you to Electronic Solutions Shop of Quick Studies, and Performance Points. We are adding these resources as quickly as possible.
4. I'm interested in providing my faculty with your terrific periodical; how do I get it?
TFS Spectrum (the periodical) is only available by Annual Membership. You can join online and download available issues right now if you like. In addition to subscribing to TFS, members receive a site license to distribute and print TFS issues as needed within their institution.
5. Are there membership levels for different institutions?
Yes, There are two membership levels: Single Campus and Multi-Campus. For more membership information click "Membership" now.. Single Campus annual membership just $495, and multicampus memberships (2 or more) only 895. This includes a full site license for unlimited duplication, distribution and printing of any of the issues in the volume year. The volume year begins on January 1. A Two-year Membership option has just been added. See "Membership"
6. What is the TFS E-Solutions Shop?
It offers an expanding collection of solutions to a wide variety of teaching and learning problems. These documents are sold online individually or in small packages and can be accessed using the links on the left side of the page. As this site if fully implemented, you will able to purchase and receive your E-shop solution right online.
7. How do I find out what E-Solutions you offer?
Click on the link and browse the current library content. The TFS site can take your order online and deliver the document(s) immediately to you via file download. It will take most if not all of 2008 and part of 2009 to complete this section. So check back often or sign up for our News and Updates to stay current with our offerings.
8. I'm looking for resources for my California community college's FLEX Professional Development program; would TFS work in this context?
You bet it would! Providing TFS for your faculty would allow them to create a FLEX program where they will use TFS issues ideas to improve their teaching, keep a journal of their experimentation and share what they found to work best with other faculty. This a practical, meaningful and outcome oriented FLEX activity that pays big dividends to the college or university who becomes a TFS member.
The Mission of TFS is to:
- Seek, question, learn, and audaciously do in creating online, on-target, cost-effective professional development resources.
- Take the long, involved, not always clear-path journey to betterment
- Inspire and nurture an enthusiasm for teaching as a world-changing occupation
- Help faculty define goals and outcomes to keep learning on track and motivate learners
- Teach best principles and practices of effective teaching and meaningful learning
- Clarify strategies and tips for active, effective, engaging learning
- Teach evaluation for continuous teaching improvement and achievement of learning outcomes
- Empower teacher-leaders to engender greater student academic success
- Enthusiastically support education in general and our customers' institutions in particular.
TFS "Good Teaching" Themes and Practices
Motivation is Key
TFS inspires faculty to develop their teaching and learning skills and knowledge in order to become effective instructors. We know from experience how frustrating it can be for faculty who wholeheartedly desire success, and yet lack the tools, knowledge, and know how to achieve it. Therefore, TFS is designed to lift the spirits of hard working faculty and help them regain or build their enthusiasm for teaching and learning while learning crucial instructor success skills in the five Critical Success Factor areas of good teaching.
Desire
TFS is an phenomenally improved approach to teaching faculty about achieving greater success in teaching and learning. Becoming an institutional member means that all your faculty can benefit from this energizing, engaging, and practical instructional success resource.
Inspiration
We all need inspiration to keep our energy level high, to keep expectations high, and to infuse students with our passion for learning and knowing. TFS is all about achieving success, and success is about becoming better at solving teaching and learning problems as they arise and before, during, and after the course is underway.
Goals
TFS is now in its 19th year and has been improved again to become the premier resource especially for busy and stressed adjunct and part-time faculty and teaching assistants. TFS has 15 years of teaching and 19 years of publishing experience in setting and reaching goals. We have the experience and know-how to help faculty set and reach their goals.
Principles of Teaching and Learning
Imagine the frustration you would encounter using yesterday's principles of teaching and learning with today's students. Yet this is what many part-time and adjunct faculty experience, often because they just don't know there's an alternative to old practices. Teaching For Success keeps the best of yesterday and adds the latest knowledge about teaching and learning from cognitive science and other fields to strengthen instructors' ability to meet their students' learning needs.
Strategies and Tips for Active Effective Learning
TFS invites authors teaching at both two- and four-year institutions who want to share what works for them in concise, understandable, plain-language style. Each issue features a variety of these best tips for teaching improvement.
Evaluation for Continuous Improvement and Learning Outcomes
Evaluation skills are paramount to knowing what is working and what is not. Faculty who have not developed their evaluation skills may know that they have not reached a teaching goal, but they might not know why. TFS helps faculty engage in evaluation-for-improvement activities.
Leading Learners to Academic Success
Faculty can be a powerful factor in leading learners to greater academic success. TFS knows that each faculty member must master at least basic leadership skills to be most effective. TFS teaches faculty how to be better "learner leaders."
Compare TFS Spectrum Content with Other Teaching Improvement Resources.
As a TFS member, you will be able to deliver TFS Issues to your faculty that feature a variety of unique ideas selected from the following special feature list:
- Top Ten List of Various Teaching and Learning Practices
- Tips and Improvement Recommendations from Practicing Instructors
- Educational Vocabulary
- Educational Figures in History
- Major Teaching Theories Summarized
- Learning Theories Explained
- Updates from the World of Cognitive Science
- Enhancing Memory and Recall Tips for Learners
- PIE-R3 Instructional Model Highlights
- Educational Leadership
- Course and Classroom Management
- Instructional Design
- Communication
- Testing and Evaluation
- Poetry Submissions
- Impassioned Quotes on: Success, Personal Development and Educational Achievement
- Best Class Openings
- Best Class Endings
- 80-20 Rule Application to Teaching and Learning
TFS Success Principles
"Without Guidance, Inspiration and Training, Teachers Tend to Teach Just Like They Were Taught"
A Teaching For Success Membership can be the best way to break this cycle and move your faculty beyond teaching by using with out-of-date instructional concepts and models.
"You Are What You Think About Most of the Time"
This is perhaps the greatest success secret of all time.
Do your faculty think about teaching and learning improvement most of the time? How many of your faculty, especially part-time and adjunct faculty, have time to research, read books, and attend seminars on teaching improvement? How many have teaching improvement at the forefront of their thoughts? TFS serves as a periodical energizer and reminder to stop and think about teaching and learning process and outcomes and how each could be improved.
With Teaching For Success, Their Attention and Focus Will Become More Success- and Improvement-oriented.
They will be constantly and positively reminded of the important job they have to do for their institution, their students, and their country.
"Successful people think about what they want, while others tend to concentrate their thoughts on what they don't want." —a simple fact, but it can make all the difference in how a faculty member perceives and acts as an instructor.
Teaching For Success focuses faculty thoughts on success principles and strategies that under gird everything that they do. And, TFS shows how faculty can work more easily. efficiently and effectively to achieve the learning outcomes they desire.
Why Not Purchase an Annual TFS Membership?
- Your faculty work hard and they need to know they are appreciated and you are providing them with a a special resource to make their job easier and more enjoyable.
- You'll get a fresh, engaging, and inspiring look at teaching, learning, and personal improvement.
- Because your faculty will be inspired and energized by TFS and your institution's students will be the benefactors of better teaching.
- You'll receive a new six-issue volume with each annual membership.
- Enjoy knowing your doing something concrete to help your part-time and adjunct faculty.
- Your get six great issues of TFS to add to your professional development resources.
- Use the Full Unlimited Distribution and Printing license provided with each membership.
- Secure a greater range of success content for your instructors than any other faculty publication.
- Because TFS is what we love to do, and we have 40 years of preparation and experience to do it well.
Customer and Reader Recommendations:
"Outstanding TFS issue. I appreciated the "Will They Drop" survey and website referral."
David Borges, D.C.
Adjunct Faculty
Lake Tahoe Community College
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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"There are some very good pieces in this issue. The student evaluation / test construction stuff is particularly valuable to our adjunct faculty. Many of them teach at the college level and evaluate the students at a high school level…not intentionally, but there is more to good student evaluation than those new to teaching expect."
Eric Cunningham
Associate Dean
Division of Adult Higher Education
Columbia College
Columbia, MO
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"So nice to hear from you again! Yes, Baker College would like to subscribe to receive Teaching for Success once again. We will need the multi campus subscription. The look of the publication is great!"
Rosemary Zawacki
Vice President for Human Resources
Baker College, MI
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"Teaching for Success is especially helpful to our adjunct faculty. Most are employed at full-time day jobs and have difficulty attending our scheduled training. They can pick up TFS when they check their mail. I've heard from many of them saying how helpful TFS has been."
Terry Rezek
Faculty Academy Coordinator
Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, CA
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"I surveyed our faculty about whether we should continue subscribing. The response was so positive that we have continued our subscription. Our faculty indicate that they really appreciate the information from TFS as they can immediately put it to work in their classrooms. "
Ben Hayes
Director of Staff Professional Development
Kansas City Kansas Community College
Kansas City, KS
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"TFS Spectrum is full of practical ideas and strategies that instructors can implement immediately."
Kathleen Kirkpatrick
Staff Development
College of Marin, Kentfield, CA
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TFS is a member of:
The Pantheon of Great TFS Partner Authors Who Create Teaching For Success Ideas
- Dr. Andrei Aleinikov, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and International Academy of Genius, Monterey, California
- Mr. Dave Bequette, Adjunct Faculty, Butte College, California
- Ms. Vicki Brooks, Adjunct Faculty, Columbia College, Missouri
- Dr. Francine Armenth-Brothers, Heartland Community College, Normal, Illinois
- Ms. Lynette G. Esposito, Adjunct Professor, Burlington County College, New Jersey
- Ms. Judy Grigg Hansen, College of Southern Idaho, Idaho
- Ms. Angela Payne, Assistant Professor of Office Administration, Southwest Community College, Memphis, Tennessee
- Mr. Ted Rachofsky, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas
- Ms. Kay Rooff-Steffen, department coordinator of humanities at Eastern Iowa Community College District, Muscatine campus, Iowa
- Dr. Howard Rosenthal, Saint Louis Community College, Missouri
- Dr. Brian R. Shmaefsky, Lone Star College – Kingwood, Texas
- Ms. Barbara J. Weiner, M.S., MT(ASCP, FL BCLP), CLS(NCA) TFS Partner Editor, DL and Web Design, Florida
- Mr. Stuart Tichenor, Oklahoma State University-Okmulgee, Oklahoma
- Mr. John Reich, Genesee Community College, New York
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