Success doesn't come to you; you go to it.
~Marva Collins
But where can you go to create more success for your faculty and yourself? Well, the faculty-success-and-development buck stops here.
If you or your faculty have success or outcome problems, we have solutions--four decades worth of tips, strategies, innovations, and recommendations designed to improve teaching, faculty performance, and personal success. We know success; we walk our talk; we're dedicated to helping faculty. Click for Membership Purchase/Order Form
So where can you go? Stop right here at The Teaching For Success Faculty Success Center.
Yesteryear, when funds were plentiful and faculty performance demands and expectations were less stringent, faculty development was nice to have, but it was rarely considered crucial to the survival of an institution of higher education.
Today it's serious; college and university faculty, especially adjunct and part-time faculty are immersed in problems, hired quickly without adequate instructor training, pushed to the limits of endurance, and expected to perform at high levels of outcome reaching excellence. "Houston, we have a problem!" What's the answer? Here's an affordable solution you should consider. It's unique and and based on the Critical Success Factors of teaching improvement and success generation.
How do I get TFS success solutions for my faculty?
Join the TFS Faculty Success Center as an institutional member. A membership gives you and all your faculty and staff access to the entire TFS Success Center's E-Library of solutions. When creating solutions we first ask, "What's the reality?" Further, we analyze what can actually and practically be done to create workable solutions that faculty can implement or modify and apply to their particular situation. Learning to create, test, and apply solutions is a fundamental part of teaching for success.
But I don't have the time to manage access codes for all my faculty
As an institutional member, you are FREE to Download to your college's web site and information network the entire TFS Success Center E-Library of Adobe Acrobat resource files.
As a member you a full control over storage, duplication, distribution and even printing of all resources. You gain unlimited access and use for a year to the E-library and it's FREE with membership!
What's the catch? There isn't one; this is a straight forward, honest offer to help your faculty be more successful.
The TFS Faculty Success Center Member resources are:
• Affordable--more than 1000-pages of resources are included with membership)
• Engaging--written by faculty for faculty
• Problem-targeted: discipline, active learning, group learning, syllabi, plagiarism, harassment, learning module planning
• Critical-success-factor coordinated: leadership, management, instructional design, communication, analysis, evaluation
• Practical--active worksheets provided to apply knowledge, plan learning, improve discipline, time management
• Easy-to-apply solutions--TFS resources help faculty get things done by suggesting and recommending action steps
• Fundamental and intermediate skill level--the needs of new and inexperienced instructors kept fully in mind
• Strategic--long-term success thinking and principles stressed to mitigate the quick-fix mentality of today
• Available 24-7--the big advantage of our no-logon-required e-resources distributed from your college to your faculty
• Unrestricted use--no limits on the number of faculty, or then number of times a resource is used.
• Active with form fields for notes and plans--questions, examples, active text field provided in many resources.
• Easy to print and save--we enable Acrobat Reader usage rights meaning faculty can input their data and save document
And they want help resources available for unrestricted use on their own pads, laptops, and desktops 24-7. And they expect their college or university to care enough about their success to provide help and development resource for them.
At last, is there a practical answer to my faculty development challenges?
Yes, if you hire, administrate, manage, mentor, or evaluate faculty, The TFS Faculty Success Center resource library gives you an affordable, comprehensive source of materials to deliver to faculty as needed at your institution that promote success, success outcomes and improvement actions.
How Can TFS FSC Be of Help?
We have complied a comprehensive, wide-ranging, practical TFS FSC E-library of resources (now more than 1000 pages of faculty success help) all targeted for boosting faculty understanding and performance.
TFS now offers the faculty of TFS college and university members scores of solutions organized into a 1000-page success e-library.
Why Was the Teaching For Success Faculty Success Center Created?
It was created to fulfill the need for faculty success resources, managed by the institution, distributed by the institution with no restrictive logon or access codes required.
Why the Concern with Critical Success Factors?
Using a Critical Success Factor approach to teaching improvement offers developers and faculty an overhead view and hands-on level approach to the real length and breadth of the skills faculty must master to succeed. These six Critical Success Factors can serve as guide for attaining a competent instructor skill set. The Factors are:
• Leadership
• Management
• Content and Context Analysis
• Instructional Design
• Communication
• Evaluation and Testing
What Exactly is Available to Member Institutions? (See the resources covers posted below that represent just apportion of what's available.)
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Positive Classroom Discipline |
What You Need to Know about Harassment in Academics |
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How to Activate Your Lectures |
How to Plan a Successful Learning Module |
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How to Make Small Group Learning Work |
How to Construct a Effective Syllabus |
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The Solutionary |
QuickTip Slide Stack Series of Great Ideas |
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Critical Success Factor Teaching Improvement Overview Chart |
TFS E-Journal of Critical Success Factor Teaching Improvement |
How do you currently provide the needed help for your faculty to solve problems, innovate, reach desired outcomes, and enjoy greater success?
• Do your faculty encounter all kinds of problems while preparing to teach, teaching, analyzing, and evaluating instruction? Do they know what has been learned, how students learned it best.
• Do your faculty need help with these and other common teaching problems?
• The TFS Faculty Success Center has a range of solutions in its E-library to solve these problems.
At last, someone is making scores of practical teaching improvement and personal success resources available all at one place with consistency of design, format and approach. That one place is the Teaching For Success Faculty Success Center.
This TFS Center is one of the best places colleges and universities can go to access scores of success solutions designed for busy, harried, stressed faculty. We specialize in providing solution resources for adjunct, part-time and full-time faculty who feel they still have something to learn about teaching improvement and achieving greater success for their students.
Order a membership for your college or university today and as a member your college can house and provide an entire e-library of success resources to make available for your faculty right from your own web site. As a member you control storage, access and delivery.
The TFS Faculty Success Center provides a unique, comprehensive approach to success in teaching. We have developed a Six-Part Critical Success Factor Core structure to help faculty make sense of the many hats that today's faculty must wear to be successful.
Recommendations
Great Results, Expert, Creative: I wish I could have chosen more than three top attributes that best describe Jack and his "Teaching For Success" program. I am one of the early users this publication at two very different community colleges in Pennsylvania—a large suburban one, and a smaller rural one.
In both instances I have found Jack to deliver exactly what we needed at both schools, giving great service, top quality in what he provided, and a commitment to customer service.
His depth of knowledge and creativity, combined with his flexibility and easy manner made it a wonderfully gratifying relationship at both colleges. His integrity cannot be surpassed! I have nothing but the highest praise for Jack Shrawder.
~Gary Rizzo, Vice President of Academic Affairs/Provost at Reading Area Community College
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This Quick Course provided tools that will assist me in creating more productive lesson plans. I believe that the strategy involved in developing effective lesson plans were offered in an appropriate and effective manner.
I was able to recall structuring the objectives using Bloom’s Taxonomy, which every educator should be familiar with. A very important quote from the course, “A good lesson plan helps you carry out the all-important task of setting goals and describing how you will reach them.”
“A lesson plan is the road map or framework used to plan and conduct every class from first meeting to final exam.” This is the heart of why I enjoyed this course.
~C.Anderson, Instructor, Westwood Colleges
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…my institution, KCKCC, has subscribed to Jack's Teaching For Success for quite a few years. His writings and editorial skills have shown me he's very well suited for those endeavors. I have always been impressed with TFS articles and the always helpful "Quick Hints" section and they have been helpful in my courses for assisting my students through their learning process.
I am now excited that I am able to communicate with him directly and look forward to benefiting from our connection as I have no doubt will happen! Thanks Jack for being the dedicated educational professional you are!
~Steve Vaitl , Adjunct Professor , Kansas City Kansas Community College
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From 2001 to 2005, Jack provided excellent delivery of an outstanding product to College of the Desert (Palm Desert, CA). The Faculty Development Committee depended on his company's publication to assist faculty with learner-centered methods and techniques. The delivery method and the product was PERFECT and the faculty expressed ongoing appreciation for the service.
~Dr Wendy Flint
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Jack Shrawder is a multi-talented, multi-gifted academician and businessman. He is capable of intermingling challenging classroom issues and projects in a concise and cohesive manner so his clientele (instructors) can reach their instructional potential. He blends fun with productivity in creative teaching strategies, enhancing the teaching experience. He gives instructors tools to effectively challenge the student to stretch to reach their educational potential. All this is done in positive and nurturing environment.
~David Borges, D.C. chiropractic doctor , Instructor , Applied Spinal Biomechanical Engineering