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
Secret Reading Weapon: Your Textbook’s TOC
When asking students to read for homework, do we ask them to simply “read the chapter”? Or do we discuss reading strategies that can help make reading a more active process?
Your Brain on Writing
What happens in the brain when we write?
Using Open-Note Quizzes to Facilitate Listening, Encoding and Retrieval
Open-note quizzes may seem like a practice too juvenile for university students, but consider how the open-note quiz encourages several practices that faculty are fond of…