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TFS E-Library Quick Access

Category and Title Listings:

0.1 Quick Help Guides, aka: Faculty Rapid Help Guides

RHG #1. Member Library Overview: Shows you the wonderful variety
of useful categories of "help-formation" available from the TFS E-library.
Our library is dedicated to inspiration and getting results--how to Teach Different.

1. Success Insights
2. QuickTips (10 ideas per stack)
3. Critical Success Factor Chart Handout
4. Teaching For Success, Instructional Adventures E-journal, Five Issue Set
5. Teaching For Success E-Journals
6. Teaching Problem-Solutionary
7. QuickCourses
8. QuickStudies
9. QuickTools
10. QuickAnswers
11. Critical Success Factors: The Key to Continuous Improvement
12. iPhone Mini Tips

RHG #2. QuickCourses: Brief, to-the-point, practical how-to's for
new and inexperienced faculty of all subject areas:

1.How to Create Lesson Plans that Work
2. How to Activate Your Lectures and Presentations
3. How to Build Positive Class Discipline
4. Integrity in Academic Writing (How to Prevent Plagiarism)
5. How to Test and Evaluate Learning
6. How to Make Small Group Learning Work
7. Harassment in the Academic Setting

RHG #3. QuickTools: Useful Day-to-day Shortcuts and Templates to
Make Many Teaching Tasks Easier and Faster

1 Lesson Planning, Quick-Plan Forms
2 How to Assess Laboratory Learning
3 How to Ensure Laboratory Safety: A Handy Checklist
4 Problem-based Learning Lesson Development Worksheet
5 Written Assignment/Research Paper Critique, Feedback and Grading Template
6 Testing Primer: Before You Test Your Students, Test Yourself First
7 Group Learning Evaluation System and Grading Forms

RHG #4. Knowledge Retention Guide: 14 strategies, priniciples, and tips to help you teach in a way
that helps your students transfer learning to long- term memory and integrate
current learning with past learning.

1. Why Aren’t They Getting It?
2. Brain Research Confirms New Retention Strategies
3. Repetition—The Keys to Long-term Knowledge Retention
4. Secrets of Knowledge Retention
5. Five Ways to Help Your Students Retain More from Your Presentations
6. Hidden Tips and a Secret Solution
7. Fifty Ways to Leave Your Next Class with More Learning
8. How to Improve Learning by Connecting the Dots
9. Classroom Energy Lagging? “Hot” Topics Turn Up the Heat
10. Quick Questionnaire Reveals Students’ Preferred Learning Methods
11. Six Key Memory Rules
12. Adding Multisensory Learning to your Lesson Plan
13. Simple Chapter Quiz Encourages Reading for Retention
14. Problem-based Learning Boosts Retention and Excitement

RHG #5. Revew Techniques Guide: 13 strategies, priniciples, and tips to help you create
engaging, fun, and effective review sessions.

1. Let Students Quiz the Class
2. A Mid-term or Final Review Team Challenge
3. How to Make Your Next Review Session a Sure Bet
4. The Most Difficult Questions Create the Best Review
5. How to Roll the Die for a Better Review
6. Game Day
7. This Review Packet Packs a Learning Punch!
8. Tossing the Question Roll
9. The Relay Race
10. How to Amp Up a Learning Review
11. Bumper Sticker Mania
12. The Competitive Review and Pretest Roundup
13. The Grape Metaphor Machination

RHG #6. Testing Tips Guide: 20 strategies, priniciples, and tips to help you create
more effective tests, assessments and quizzes.

1. Testing and Evaluation: What’s the Difference?
2. Three Must-Know Fundamentals of Good Tests
3. Three Ways to Assess What They Know
4. Performance-based Assessments
5. “Road Test” An Approach to Ensure Student Competency
6. Success with Pair Share Study and Testing
7. How to Construct a Better Exam
8. The Advantage of Including Student-Designed Tests
9. Adding Assessments Augments the Traditional Approach
10. How to Improve Learning with Immediate Test Results
11. Essay Test Tips
12. Testing 101: What You Need to Know
13. Rapid Scoring Systems with Multiple-choice Tests
14. Using In-test Reference Sheets: What’s the Score?
15. Test Taking Tips that Help Students Optimally Perform
16. How You Can Reduce Your Students’ Exam Anxiety
17. Make-up Test Policies Tips for Part- and Full-time Faculty
18. Lecture Journals: an Alternative Assessment Tool
19. The Lowly Quiz: You’ll Love What It Can Do
20. The Last Question

1. Success Insights

One-page white papers targeting a specific success principle, strategy, or recommendation.

  1. 20 Steps to Better Outcomes
  2. Building a Culture of Success
  3. Adaptive Leadership
  4. Complex Systems and Context Analysis CSF Explained
  5. Refrigerator Optimization and Teaching Improvement
  6. How I Know Learned Optimism Works
  7. Seven-Step Problem Solving System
  8. The Most Precious Teaching Asset
  9. Beyond the Core
  10. ZBT (Zero-based Thinking) Applied to Teaching
  11. Order and Sequence
  12. Defanging the Hurry Trap
  13. Defanging the Hurry Trap Pt 2
  14. The Genesis Point
  15. The Tyranny of the Trivial
  16. Magic Questions
  17. The X-Factor
  18. Five Easy Ways to Structure Knowledge
  19. Dump the Slump
  20. Happier in the Zone
  21. Two Easy But Powerful Outcome Clarifiers
  22. The Responsibility Response
  23. Coach K's Four Keys
  24. Forgotten Or Irrelevant?
  25. Positive to Causative
  26. Pure and Simple
  27. The Success Conversation
  28. Seeker, Solver, Avoider
  29. The DNA of Success
  30. Convergence
  31. How to 80-20 It
  32. The Z Dimension
  33. Four Myths to Avoid
  34. The Right Answer?
  35. Using Action Steps
  36. Don't Forget to RSVP
  37. Daily Performance Builder-1 Why Me?
  38. Daily Performance Builder-2 Strengths
  39. Daily Performance Builder-3 Absolutely Positively
  40. Daily Performance Builder-4 You and Only You
  41. Daily Performance Builder-5 Time Limits
  42. Making Minutes Count
  43. Something Has to Give
  44. How to Stoke the Inner Fire

 

2. QuickTips (10 ideas per stack)
Short and on-target, cool tips. See QuickTips page for content.

2.1 Quick Tip Slide Stack #1

2.2 Quick Tip Slide Stack #2

2.3 Quick Tip Slide Stack #3

3. Critical Success Factor Chart Handout

4. Adventure E-journal set

Five-set, full-content journals (15+ pages each) with an adventure metaphor

5. E-Journals Volumes
Full-content Teaching For Success journals (8+ pages) Volumes 20-17:

6. Problem-Solutionary
640-page of archived tips and techniques

7. QuickCourses
12- to 60-page documents with interactivity built in.

8. QuickStudies
 Quick Studies are more concise, narrower in content scope and do not all have review questions like the QuickCources

9. QuickTools
QuickTools provide faculty help in completing all kinds of practical everyday teaching tasks, such as grading written papers, planning problem-based learning modules, assess laboratory learning, etc. QuickTools contain online workable, and saveable checklists, forms, and templates with active fields when viewed in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

 

10. QuickAnswers

 

QuickAnswers provide a variety of answers to commonly asked questions about teaching and learning and general success. You will find that each "answer" will provide a how-to, practical answer that you can use to improve a class, course, or even yourself.

 

10.1 Q. How Can I Get it All Done?

10.2 Q. What Is Mastery Learning?

  • QA-10.2.1: What is Mastery Learning All About? A: Mastery Learning Increases Student Success

10.3 Q. What Do I Need to Know about Testing?

10.4 Q. What Can I Do to Stimulate Creative/Critical Thinking?

  • QA-10.4.1: What Can I Do to Stimulate Creative Thinking?: A: Teaching Critical Thinking with Story and Fable
  • QA-10.4.2: What Can I Do to Stimulate Creative Thinking?: A: E-mail Assignment Builds Better Thinking
  • QA-10.4.3: What Can I Do to Stimulate Creative Thinking?: A: Try a Group Paragraph Writing Idea
  • QA-10.4.4: What Can I Do to Stimulate Creative Thinking?: A: Preposterous Question Exercise

10.5 Q. My Students Are Bored; What Can I do?

10.6 Q. What Can I Do to Increase Student Retention?

10.7 Q. Should I Use Social Media in My Teaching?

10.8 Q. My Students Are Unhappy, What Can I Do?

10.9 Q. What Are the Dos and Donts of the Copyright Law?

10.10 Q. My First Class: How Should I Get Started?

10.11 Q. How Can I Boost Knowledge Retention

 

11. How to Apply Critical Success Factor Thinking to Teaching and Teaching Improvement

 

(This section is under construction)

 

11.1 Critical Success Factors of Teaching for Success: Overview
  • CS 11.1.1: The Six Critical Success Factors of Teaching for Success—Overview Chart

11.2 CSF 1, Leadership

 

11.3 CSF 2., Management

  • CSF 11.3.1: (Coming Soon)

11.4 CSF 3. Context and Content Analysis

11.5 CSF 4., Designing Instruction: The Six-step PIE-R3 Model Application to Effective Teaching

  • CSF 11.5.1: Prepare to Learn

  • CSF 11.5.5: Reconfirm by Testing and Learning Product Creation

  • CSF 11.5.6: Reflect

11.6 CSF 5., Communication

11.7 CSF 6., Evaluation and Testing

• CSF 11.7.1: Essay Test Writing Tips

• CSF 11.7.2: Testing: Purpose, Validity, and Length concepts.

• CSF 11.7.3: Performance Appraisals—Better than Testing?

 

 

12. iPhone Mini Tips

 

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