The Coulter Faculty Center provides services designed to assist and support all part and full-time faculty and Graduate Teaching Assistants in seeking, achieving and maintaining excellence in their teaching. Training and guidance is available for those who wish to use instructional technology in their teaching. The center also sponsors workshops, presentations, faculty teams, and other activities and events designed to encourage instructors to talk and reflect about effective teaching and exchange creative ideas for enriching student learning. The Center’s web site is located at http://facctr.wcu.edu/ and includes a GTA page. <http://facctr.wcu.edu/gta.html>
Activities and services most relevant for GTAs include:
• consultation on course syllabi, course development, teaching goals, active learning, and applications of instructional technology
• Faculty Sandbox <http://facctr.wcu.edu/sandbox.html>, a place where faculty and GTAs can develop instructional materials via computer
• computer classroom orientation and training
• TEACHING <http://facctr.wcu.edu/discussion.html>, an email discussion list for faculty and GTAs on any aspect of teaching and learning
• Schedule <http://facctr.wcu.edu/learningops.html> of semester presentations and workshops
• Open Classrooms Project <http://facctr.wcu.edu/openclassroom.html> where fac- ulty and GTAs have the opportunity to observe faculty teaching classes
• Videotaping of classes upon request
• Training in the use of WebCT to enhance classroom courses
• Faculty Forum <http://facctr.wcu.edu/forum.html>, a monthly publication featuring evocative opinion pieces of WCU faculty
• MountainRise, an eJournal on the scholarship of teaching and learning
• Renaissance of Teaching and Learning Booklet Series published each semester
• a lending library of professional literature on college teaching that is located in Hunter Library 240
The Coulter Faculty Center can be reached at 828-227-7196.
This page is maintained by Nancy Carden in the
Office of the Provost.
Last updated: 2/15/2005.
Copyright 2005 by Western Carolina University .