The 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 members of the WCU teaching and learning community.
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Teaching Analysis Polls - TAPs
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New Faculty Orientation
Support for navigating your first year at WCU
Faculty Forward
Faculty Learning Community
SoTL
Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Teaching@WCU
In case you missed the last news from the CFC, find the most recent posts below. To catch up with all communications, vists the CFC News page or check out the CFC Newsletter Archive.
Engage
Faculty questions about student engagement are common across institutions and higher education. Educational researchers, cognitive scientists, and psychologists continue to learn new things about cognition, learning, and motivation, and some of those best resources...
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...
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Coulter Faculty Commons
172 Hunter Library
Cullowhee, NC 28723
828.227.7196
cfc@wcu.edu