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TFS Membership Information and Benefits |
 TFS Membership Purchase
For a mail-in or fax PO or Check membership orders click here to download. The membership purchase form is a 492K .pdf document.
How Membership Works, What you Get.
Members receive a complete volume of Teaching For Success Spectrum (six issues) and a site license allowing Unlimited Printing, and Distribution of TFS Spectrum at the members institution.
All memberships run from Jan 1 through Dec 31 of the current year.
TFS issues are posted to the member's online account for downloading as they are released.
Currently Vol. 19, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 are posted and ready for online delivery when you purchase your membership. The next issue will be released late August.
Whose Joining TFS? Your in good company with college and university customers like these:
- 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
- Genesse Community College, NYc
- Northcentral Technical College, WI
- Miami-Dade Community College, FL
- Angelina College, TX
TFS Membership Benefits
Membership colleges, universities see adjunct and part-time faculty who are more:
- Inspired faculty
- Informed faculty
- Outcome-aware faculty
- Student-attentive faculty
- Success-oriented faculty
- Committed faculty
In addition, Teaching For Success Members enjoy the benefit of being able to electronically distribute and print Teaching For Success™ Spectrum bimonthly periodical to all their faculty and staff easily and cost effectively.
Imagine how frustrating it is for your faculty who wholeheartedly desire success, and yet lack the tools, knowledge and know how to achieve it.
TFS Membership is an exclusive opportunity to engage your faculty in developing their teaching knowledge and skills. Colleges choose TFS Membership when their goal is to train, develop and mentor faculty in how to optimize their teaching to produce more advanced learning outcomes for all students.
There are two membership levels: Single Campus and Multi-Campus. In addition, to TFS, members are fully licensed to distribute and print TFS issues as needed within their institution. No matter how small or large your institution, TFS can economically reach your entire faculty.
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 have access to an exciting and practical success resource.
TFS is all about achieving success and success is about becoming better at solving teaching and learning problems as they arise before, during, and after the course.
TFS is now in its 19th year and has been improved again to be the premier resource especially for busy and stressed, adjunct and part-time faculty and teaching assistants.
Why Choose an Annual TFS Membership?
- Because TFS is what we love to do and have 40 years of preparation and experience to do it well.
- You'll get a Fresh, engaging and inspiring look at teaching, learning and personal improvement.
- Because you are what you think about most of the time.
- You'll Receive a new Volume with each annual membership/
- Enjoy Each Volume contains Six Issues of TFS monthly.
- 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.
Get going and get growing with TFS today; To purchase a membership Click Here:
TFS Spectrum Bimonthly Periodical
Teaching For Success Spectrum is a membership-based resource designed especially for higher education institutions. TFS Spectrum is a bimonthly electronic periodical, available only to TFS members
Spectrum is designed to inspire, inform and motivate faculty to improve. The TFS Spectrum carries up-the-minute suggestions and tips for immediately improving or solving teaching problems and challenges as well as solid recommendations on how to rapidly develop professional teaching skills.
Spectrum Periodical Issue Features
The following are just some of the typical features found in a Teaching For Success Spectrum issue:
- Top ten lists for specific teaching tasks
- Must-know education and teaching vocabulary
- Major teaching theories summarized
- Learning theories explained
- Keeping learning active, cooperative, and discoverable.
- Updates from the world of cognitive science
- Enhancing memory and recall for learners
- How to use the powerful pie-r3 instructional model to improve learning
- Learning leadership applications
- How to performa context and content analysis of your course
- Choosing the best instructional design for your class
- Improving communication
- How to test fairly and ensure valid testing and evaluation
- Extras such as poetry, quotes, book reviews, website links.
- Best class openings and endings
- 80-20 Rule application to teaching and learning
Why not act now? To purchase a membership Click Here:
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 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?
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. TFS show how faculty can work more effectively to achieve the outcomes they desire.
Desire, Must Be Nurtured
The best faculty unequivocally want to be a successful, respected teachers as well as part-time faculty who wan to excel at teaching and their primary profession. TFS can provide the learning, know-how, practice tips, and teach success principles they need to ratchet-up their desire to teach well.
Success Can Be Learned
Instructors can learn the success principles they need to thrive rather than just survive. And TFS is the only teaching improvement resource to focus on the crucial difference.
Improvement Must Be Continuous
Teaching For Success in total works to inspire, encourage, inform, influence, induce, and impassion faculty to take the journey of continuous improvement for themselves, their students, and their institution.
For continuous teaching improvement ideas for your faculty, purchase a membership Click Here:
The Sly Enemy
Every story has to have a villain, and for Teaching For Success that would be THE COMFORT ZONE. Once we slip into this zone, we become trapped by stagnant habits and addicted to mediocrity and cease to improve.
If you want your faculty to be dissatisfied with "just making it," and but aspire to the best and highest in teaching and learning excellence, then order a low-cost TFS membership today and provide your faculty with a no-nonsense TFS success program; it's virtually a no-brainer.
TFS addresses the fundamental need of each instructor whether part- or full-time to be respected and successful. The beautiful balance of instructional skills and success principles found in Teaching For Success is unique among teaching improvement resources.
If you work in a success-oriented institution with success-impassioned faculty, or if you would like to, then TFS is the right choice for your faculty development program.
Why not join today and give TFS a try? What do you have to lose? Only the Comfort Zone.
Making It Work
To reap the most reward from TFS resources, member institutions must do their part in promoting TFS and making it widely and easily available to faculty, especially part-timers.
Unfortunately, simply placing a copy of a TFS resource in a library, TLC, or instructional resource center will attract little attention and get little use. Wise administrators will promote it enthusiastically, and make it widely available via you local area network or website. Your membership comes with a comprehensive license that gives you free reign in determining how to best share TFS with all your faculty and staff.
It's interesting to note that the American Society of Training and Development found that training programs are most successful when those in leadership positions declare that a development program is important, and the company expects it to be used. Academic Leadership support for a development resource is the most critical factor in a program's success.
Bottom line?
Ultimately you, your faculty and your institution's students are the big winners when TFS becomes part of your institution.
Why not join something solid, growing, positive, inspirational, crucial to solving the teaching and learning problems of our time and become a Teaching For Success member.
Membership is the best investment in success you can make for your institution
Annual, only $497 single campus, $895, two or more campuses. (See membership form for definition of campus
TFS Membership gives you access to all our faculty development and teaching improvement resources:
Purchase a membership, (30-day, "you'll be Delighted" guarantee) Click Here:
Teaching For Success Periodical and Included Site License
Includes Unlimited Duplication and Distribution license for one or multiple campuses.
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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To purchase a membership Click Here:
Member Support or for more information:
Email: jack@teachingforsuccess.com
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. |
