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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.
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Teaching @WCU: A CFC Blog
Minimizing Disruptive Behaviors to Facilitate Student Learning
Minimizing disruptive behaviors to facilitate student learning by Jack Caldwell, John Hawes, and L. Scott Philyaw, PhD Effective classroom management is rarely part of our formal training as faculty members. Yet, we are still expected to respond to a variety of...
Student Learning Outcomes
GUIDELINES FOR STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES Rules of Thumb Avoid use of verbs such as, “demonstrate”, “know”, “recognize”, “value”, “appreciate”, etc. Use only a single action verb per Student Learning Outcome (SLO). Use Bloom’s taxonomy for verb selection. Three to five...
John Williams
Dr. John Williams, of WCU’s Forensic Anthropology programs, will be presenting two Science of Teaching and Learning sessions at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences based on his bone trauma class, Anthropology 401. The first will be a presentation workshop on...