Coulter Faculty Commons
Your Partner in Teaching & LearningThe Coulter Faculty Commons (CFC) advances excellence in teaching, learning, and scholarship by partnering with the Western Carolina University community through collaboration, creation, and celebration.
We partner with all instructors, staff who teach, and graduate student assistants.
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Teaching @WCU: A CFC Blog
Writing Observable and Measurable Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes help us identify and clarify the end point or destination of a learning experience. If we don't know where we are going, we can get lost or wander all over the place. A course then becomes a bloated unorganized mess. We use Fink's Taxonomy for...
Small Teaching: Interleaving
3rd post of 9 in the Small Teaching SeriesSmall Teaching by J.M. Lang presents methods for making small changes in your teaching practices (hence the name) that can significantly improve your students’ learning. Each chapter provides the research-based evidence behind...
Small Teaching: Predicting
2nd post of 9 in the Small Teaching Series Small Teaching by J.M. Lang presents methods for making small changes in your teaching practices (hence the name) that can significantly improve your students’ learning. Each chapter provides the research-based evidence...