Teaching For Success®, Faculty and Students Working Together to Make a Difference

     When faculty learn to teach for success, they apply high-performance concepts and strategies that fuel teaching improvement, boost student learning achievements, and raise student retention levels. If you think the drop out rate is too high, TFS has an answer.

TFS E-library Resources Help Faculty:
• Make a Difference by showing how to work for and with students to improve teaching and learning achievement.

• Make a Difference by collaborating with colleagues to:
     - Build a high-performance mindset
       required to be successful.
     - Choose clearly defined and even
       audacious and strenuous instructional
       and learning outcomes.
     - Commit to becoming change leader no        matter the difficulties encountered.
     - Believing students can learn more,        faster, and better than they have ever        thought possible.

• Make a Difference by continually and relentlessly asking three absolutely critical teaching questions:
     - "What did I do right?"
     - "How can I do more of this?"
     - "What can I do better next time?"

      Any person lucky enough to have had one great teacher who inspired, advised, critiqued, and had endless faith in her student’s ability will tell you what a difference that person has made in her life.          

                                                                             ~ David Shenk

• Make a Difference by:
     - Entering into a success-focused dialogue with other        fellow instructors.
     - Nourish a "Success Conversation" that seeks to find
       new answers to instructional challenges. 
     - Inspiring and encouraging colleagues to embark on their
       own path of teaching betterment.
     - Being a focal point of innovation and improvement.
     - Working to be supportive, attentive, and expectant of
       high standards with their students.
     - Celebrating the teaching/learning adventure and journey!

How does TFS work with colleges?
• As a supportive development partner, TFS provides success resources to close the "the student success gap" and nourish an ongoing teaching success conversation—a crucial activity that forms the heart of innovation and change.

How does TFS work with faculty developers?
• TFS first and foremost listens and responds to your needs. In addition, we provide you with an entire e-library of tips, strategies, insights, Quick Answers, Quick Courses, Critical Success Factors Analyses, and recommendations that you can store, distribute, link, excerpt, and modify as you see fit to enhance your faculty development program.
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