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The #1 Faculty Instructional Success Program
Teaching For Success®
Given today's volatile funding and support environment, faculty—adjunct or full-time, simply cannot gamble with student success.
~John H. Shrawder, Exec Director, TFS
How can Teaching For Success help you, your institution, faculty, and students?
Do your faculty know the one simple teaching strategy that can lead to an 1800 percent increase in knowledge retention?
Do your faculty use the Six Critical Success Factors of effective teaching to boost student success?
Do your faculty know the four essential elements of a successful lesson plan? Do your faculty know who to create a Positive Discipline Plan to build a better learning environment?
They will when your institution subscribes to the TFS Teach Differently, Make a Difference instructional improvement program that provides more than 1000 pages of success resources.
A new concept in faculty development
The principles and strategies in the new TFS Teach Differently; Make a Difference program produce gains in three critical faculty development areas:
• Clarity
• Confidence
• Capability
1. How do faculty create clarity?
They do so through writing desired goal and outcome statements before every class--it takes discipline and desire, but the results are worth it. High achievers in every field of endeavor focus their efforts like a laser on clearly defined goals and outcomes. Faculty must do the same.
To be effective, outcomes must be clear, concise, emotionally engaging, based on action- or problem-based learning, and describe how achievement can be measured or validated.
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Faculty Comment: Hi Jack - Wanted to let you know that I am once again resorting to your helpful website to encourage myself a little bit! I have been hired to create an online course for a local University that I am currently teaching at face to face. I am a bit concerned that somehow I am not qualified, but I know I am because I am the subject expert! By reading over the different [TFS] Faculty Rapid Help Guides, I am feeling better already! Thanks so much again. Kim
2. How do faculty grow the confidence needed to optimize learning and to inspire their students and teach differently? It requires a four-step process:
- Create a high-performance mindset.
- Choose clearly defined and even audacious
learning outcomes.
- Commit to improvement outcomes no matter how
great the difficulties encountered.
- Realize students can learn more, faster, and
better than you ever thought possible.
3. How can faculty expand instructional capabilities? They can do so by studying the Critical Success Factors of effective teaching and learning. Then, they must continually and relentlessly asking three performance-enhancing questions:
- "What did I do right?"
- "How can I do more of this?"
- "What can I do better next time?"
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How can your college, faculty, and students benefit from Teaching For Success?
As a supportive faculty development partner, TFS provides the Teach Differently—Make a Difference Mastery Program and its success resources on an annual subscription basis. The core purpose of TFS is to help faculty learn how to reach desired outcomes, boost student success, and nourish an ongoing teaching improvement conversation with colleagues.
TFS institutional program subscribers now have access to a system that delivers TFS Success Tips twice weekly to faculty who sign up for this service. Your faculty are in control. They can subscribe or unsubscribe as they see fit. Since these tips contain connecting links to additional ideas in the TFS program E-library, connecting TFS ideas to your faculty has just become a lot easier. The goal is to help you nourish a success conversation or dialogue for improvement at each institution that generates critical collaboration and mentoring to improve instruction and boost student success.
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How does TFS work with faculty developers?
TFS first and foremost listens and responds to your needs. In addition, we provide you with a wide assortment of program resources including: Quick Tips, Critical Success Factor ideas, Success Insights, Quick Answers, and Quick Course resources. No one else offers this: All TFS Mastery Program resources can be stored, distributed, and linked from your institution's website or CIS system. Also, developers are encouraged to excerpt and modify resources to fit with the individual requirements of each college or university program subscriber.
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