Tuition fee credits are issued to school associates, in-school coordinators, and school administrators at the end of the semester in which the school associate hosted the student teacher. Upon issue, you will be sent a TFC notification via email.

School associates, in-school coordinators, and school administrators receive tuition fee credits as follows:

EDUC 401/402 Experiences

• School associates: Receive four TFCs. If more than one school associate is involved in the mentorship of a student teacher, the TFCs will be divided amongst the teachers involved.
• In-school coordinators: Receive two TFCs.
• School administrators: Receive four TFCs.

EDUC 405/406 Practicum:

• School associates: Receive four TFCs. If more than one school associate is involved in the mentorship of a student teacher, the TFCs will be divided amongst the teachers involved.
• School administrators: Receive four TFCs.

Tuition fee credits can be redeemed by completing and submitting the online form. This form is to be used if you are using the TFCs for yourself. If you wish to transfer the TFCs to someone else, please see the 'transferring tuition fee credits' section below.

School associates, in-school coordinators, and administrators may redeem up to 10 credits per semester with a lifetime maximum of 30 credits.

If you are the recpient of transferred TFCs, you may redeem up to four credits per semester with a lifetime maximum of 12 credits. 

TFCs are posted to student accounts after the 3^rd week of class. You will receive a confirmation email usually within FIVE working days after submitting your request. Outstanding account balances not covered by the value of the redeemed credits are subject to a late fee penalty of 2% per month.

When a transfer occurs, the original TFC is cancelled and a new one is issued in the recipient's name with a new TFC number. On the transfer form, you will have the option of having the credits applied to the current semester or transferred to you and saved under your name in our database. These credits may be redeemed at a later date.

Transfer policy 

Effective October 19, 2015, tuition fee credits may be transferred to: 

Spouse - A person to whom the employee is legally married and lives with, or a person who, although not legally married to, has co-habited with the employee for at least twelve months in a marriage-like relationship, and is known in the community as the employee's spouse or partner. The spouse may be a person of the same or opposite gender.

Child - A child or stepchild of the employee who is under twenty-five years of age on the first day of classes of the semester. The benefit will expire at the end of the current academic semester should the child become twenty-five years of age. The child must be mainly dependent upon the employee for financial support.

Colleague (currently working at your school) - For this purpose, colleagues include enrolling or non-enrolling teachers on temporary or continuing contracts or administrators. We hope that recipients of transferred credits will consider being school associates in the future.

Promising educator - TFCs may also be gifted to a promising educator who meets the following criteria:

a) is a certified teacher without a continuing contract working in any school district, such as a TTOC 

b) is an SFU student, in any Faculty, who is an aspiring teacher.

Those gifting TFCs to a promising educator are providing encouragement to current colleagues not on continuing contracts or future educators who demonstrate a strong commitment to being or becoming outstanding teachers.

• Each TFC is worth the monetary value of one undergraduate credit - approximately $200
• TFCs can be applied to base tuition amounts of any credit course - graduate or undergraduate.
• Continuing Studies courses are non-credit and therefore ineligible. The University reserves the right to exclude any special program or course from the waiver policy.
• TFCs become valid the semester after they are issued.
• Tuition fee credits are valid for two years from the date they are first issued.
  
• To redeem TFCs, the recipient must be registered in a credit course.
• TFCs cannot be applied towards previous balances owing.
• Credits may not be sold.
• If the course is dropped, the TFCs cannot be returned.
• Avoid late penalties by submitting requests to redeem credits by the end of the 2^nd week of the semester.