TFS Resource List

1. College, University, and Schools Membership

• Annual or 2-year TFS Institutional Membership and TFS Spectrum, Periodical

2. Institutional and Individual Faculty Resources

• 12-Step Email Teaching Improvement Jump-Start Program


• New QuickStudy. "How to Get an "A" in Testing"
  

• TFS "Solutionary" 100s of ideas in a 540-page, searchable, linked library

1. Just Announced: The TFS 12-Step Email Teaching Improvement Jump-Start Program.	2. Revised for 2008, TFS Spectrum Bimonthly Electronics Periodical Program
3. Just Added: A New QuickStudy. "How to Get an "A" in Testing" Explains question types and uses; contains common test construction formats.	4. Reworked for 2008. The TFS "Solutionary" 100s of ideas in a 540-page, searchable, linked library composed of 64 recent back issues of TFS.

1. On-Target, TFS 12-Step Email Teaching Jump-Start Program

Do you want the ultimate in bare-bones, no frills, but effective teaching improvement program to jump-start your part-time and adjunct faculty each term? Well, this is it. The TFS 12-step teaching jump-start program gives you a set of 12 TFS prepared email teaching tip messages that you can post to your faculty whenever and however you wish. You can modify and edit these messages as needed. Concerned about use and readership among faculty. Try having your TFS email tips come from your president's or vice president's office. You will be providing your faculty with the following 12-step to teaching success program:

These are the 12 Must-know Steps to Teaching Success.

1. Expectations and Outcome
2. The Six Critical Success Factors of Teaching
3. Leading the Way
4. Getting to Know You
5. Making Preparations
6. Information and Intelligence
7. Engaging Discoveries
8. Raising Retention
   
9. Rating Performance
10. Making the Grade
11. Review for Improvement
12. Top Five Master-Teacher Secrets

Adjuncts and part-timers tend to take notice when messages come from these respected leaders. Tip messages run from approximately 400-600 words and are formatted for quick and easy reading on screen. The content of the 12 messages provides inspiration, encouragement and practical improvement tips applicable to both online and traditional classroom delivery modes of instruction. The TFS 12-Week Email Booster program is only $294 Single Campus with Unlimited Use Site license and $494 for Multi-campus Institutions. This is only $24.50 a week, less than a tank of gas! To purchase now Click Here. Or download TFS order form for traditional paper purchase.

2. On-Target, TFS Spectrum bimonthly, electronic periodical with Bonus Idea Application section with each issue.

TFS Spectrum Periodical is a bimonthly ezine with Unlimited Site Use License, single and multicampus rates. See also Membership section. Click here for FREE SAMPLE This is our premier resource that delivers 36 pages of tips, techniques, principles and strategies all organized under the six critical success factors of good teaching. Idea for online and traditional classroom delivered instruction are included. Also instructors find an Gold Bonus Idea Application section at the end of each issue.

One to two pages are devoted to working with ideas to enable instructors to retain and apply more of the issues's content to their specific teaching situation. Providing TFS Spectrum is like buying each of your faculty a 48-page handbook/workbook on teaching improvement. Compare could you buy an up-to-the-minute book for only $4.95 for 100 faculty. Have more faculty? The price is even lower: for 200 faculty only $2.48 for a year of faculty development. This is unbelievably cost-effective compared to any other method or resource. To purchase now Click Here. Or download TFS order form for traditional paper purchase.

3. On-Target QuickStudy: How to Get an "A" in Question and Test Selection and Creation.

Of all the teaching tasks, inexperienced faculty tend to get into trouble the most frequently with tests, test questions, and grading test questions. They often do not have a clue as what constitutes a good, fair and valid test of learning especially when the learning is directed by performance learning objectives. This QuickStudy explains testing, questions and evaluating answers from A-Z. This is condensed, practical learning about tests which most instructors won't master until amassing years of teaching experience couple with graduate courses in evaluation and testing.

Tests should never be a guessing game for students. Questions should be clear, straight forward, understandable and congruent with the material students must learn.
Students should never have to ask, “Will this be on the test?” Your syllabus, lesson plans and learning activities should all make it very clear to students what and how learning will be evaluated. The lessons learned in this QuickStudy are invaluable to instructors of any discipline.

Student arguments, complaints and disappointments over testing are all a possibility during any course, unless faculty have developed a sound working knowledge of the evaluation and testing skills required to be a successful instructor. Conflict occurs because students care deeply about tests and test results, since they so profoundly affect their academic careers. When I talk with students, I find poorly written, tricky and ambiguous or irrelevant test questions are at the top of the list of students’ complaints about their instructors. Students deserve good, fair tests, and this QuickStudy can help your faculty ensure they are creating or choosing them for their students. To purchase now Click Here. Or download TFS order form for traditional paper purchase.

After completing this QuickStudy instructors will know:

• The twin-fold purpose of testing.
  
• Common test and evaluation terms.
• What a test should accomplish.
• How to use a TFS (TPAG) Test Planning and Analysis Grid to check the balance of your tests.
• What question words correspond to various levels of learning achievement as described in Bloom’s taxonomy.
• How to evaluate test questions.
• How to estimate the proper length for a test.
• How to create a Course Testing Plan.
• How to use the TFS Course Testing Planning Grid to create a good course testing plan.
  

Main Study Topics:

• Testing talk: What do common testing and evaluation terms mean?
• Planning a test: What do you want the test to do?
• Question construction: How do you write or select good, clear, concise and valid test questions?
• Test length: How to estimate the length of a test.
• Course testing plan: How to create a course testing guide.
• Self-test: Check your understanding of the terms, recommendations and principles contained in this QuickStudy.
• References: Book and articles that can provide more testing details.
• Job aides: Blank TFS test design and planning forms. All this at fantastically low price of $12.95 for individual faculty use or add an Annual Site Use license for only $95 for a single campus and $149 for a multi-campus license. To purchase now Click Here. Or download TFS order form for traditional paper purchase.

4. On-Target, "TFS Solutionary": A 540-page Treasure trove of teaching improvement ideas, tips, strategies and principles. Wow! there is so much information in the Solutionary and its all searchable and organized by 9- years of back issues of Teaching For Success all in one document.

This is truly a one-of-a kind resource that no other publisher has dared to make available especially at the low price of $29.95 for an individual faculty or $95 for an Annual Unlimited Site Use license for a single campus or $149 for an Annual Unlimited Site Use license for a multi-campus situation.

Sample "Solutionary" Search Term Hits:

• Active Learning: 23
• Syllabus: 260
• Presentation: 234
• Homework: 151
• Group: 907
• Discussion: 353
• Writing: 524

To purchase now Click Here. Or download TFS order form for traditional paper purchase.

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TFS Attacks a Difficult Problem with Creativity and Dedication to Results

At more than 600,000 strong, part-time and adjunct faculty have the responsibility to achieve learning outcomes at the same level as full-time faculty.

But they struggle to do so under the acute constraints of too little time for preparation, isolation and lack of experience. And often they lack even basic knowledge and skills in the Six Critical Success Factors of Good Teaching.

How TFS Critical Success Factors of Good Teaching Overcome Barriers to Learning

Teaching For Success Solutions are unique (see CSF diagram above) and effective because they are based on a through grounding and many years of study and practice developing all of these crucial-to-know factors:

• Learning Leadership
• Course and Classroom Management
• Content and Context Analysis
• Instructional Design Principles
• Communication
• Evaluation and Testing

Discover Real Benefits when Becoming a Teaching For Success Customer

Some of the benefits of becoming a Teaching For Success Member and providing Teaching For Success Spectrum to your part-time and adjunct faculty are:

• Inspires faculty to continuously improve their teaching and knowledge of how students learn.
• Empowers faculty to better aid their students learning.
• Provides faculty with wide range of instructional strategies that are interactive and energetic.
• Presents practical solutions for positive classroom discipline.
• Enables faculty to chose more reliable and accurate testing instruments.
• Helps faculty to grade fairly, consistently, and accurately.
• Offers a smorgasbord of quick teaching tips to solve everyday teaching problems.
• Provides a success curriculum that teaches faculty the fundamentals of success thinking, planning, and evaluation.
• Promotes to faculty the value of supporting higher education in their community.
• Suggests ways that instructors can informally market the value of their employing institution to the community.
  

Customer and Reader Recommendations:

"Outstanding TFS issue. I appreciated the "Will They Drop" survey and website referral."

"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."

"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!"

"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."

"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. "

"TFS Spectrum is full of practical ideas and strategies that instructors can implement immediately."

TFS E-Solutions Availability

We project it will take until mid 2009 to add all of our TFS solution resources under development now to our website and have them available for sale. The left side column links to these resource topics will be activated as we add resources , so please bear with us and return often to check availability. If you would like to be come part of our mailing list providing weekly updates on document availably, email News@teachingforsuccess.com and you will be placed on our keep-informed and get-the-best-deals news list.

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