Why You Should Teach at CFU
Our top Ten Teacher Benefits for sharing your expertise with the community:
- It feels wonderful to share important and valuable information, as well as your skills, knowledge, and enthusiasm with the community.
- You learn:
- By preparing to teach—all the organizing improves your grasp of the content.
- From your students—many are smart and knowledgeable.
- From other CFU teachers (if you participate in the Teachers Learning Exchange).
- Classes create great opportunities to make new friends.
- Your reputation grows in the community:
- Being in the CFU catalog gets you known.
- Your students get to see you in action.
- Word of mouth spreads your reputation as an expert, a fun and engaging teacher, and as someone who gives back to the community.
- Your building reputation helps you land other opportunities such as speaking and teaching gigs, collaborations with other teachers or students, and possibly even jobs or spouses from class connections.
- Classes are golden doorways to writing books—use class experiences to generate documents.
- Being a CFU teacher gives you credibility when conducting outside research.
- Students often seek an ongoing fellowship or client relationship with teachers they have learned to value and trust in class.
- Teacher benefits are effective when the first catalog their course is published in hits the streets:
- All instructors have the option of participating in the Learning Exchange Program (an opportunity to take other participating teachers’ CFU courses tuition-free on a stand-by basis).
- All instructors automatically become CFU members.
- Receive 50% off tuition for CFU core courses.
- Receive 30% off tuition for CFU Spanish Center and/or CompuSkills courses.
- Although instructors won’t get rich by teaching at CFU, there is a lot of great opportunity to meet new people and what teachers do get paid can certainly add up!