The Teaching & Learning Center

• 3-2-1 Instruction Assessment
• Angel, T.A. & Cross, K.P. (1993). Classroom assessment techniques: A handbook for college teachers (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Do Differently Instruction Assessment
• Making Connections Instruction Assessment
• Muddiest Point Instruction Assessment
• One-Minute Paper Instruction Assessment
• Recall and Review Instruction Assessment
• Transfer and Apply Instruction Assessment
• North Carolina State: Assessment for the Division of Undergraduate Affairs
• National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)

• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Resources
• University of Minnesota CTL: Active Learning Resources

• Handling the Workload
• Writing Matter #2
• Responding to Student Writing
• Eli Review
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Professor Hacker on Audio Response

• WCU Office of Service-Learning and Volunteer Programs
• Campus Compact

Teaching Diversity

• Diversity and Inclusive Teaching, Vanderbilt University Center of Teaching

• MERLOT II (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)

NEA (National Education Association)

• New to teaching at WCU? Read the Practical Strategies to Help New Teachers guide put together by our faculty.
• Are you interested in learning how to evaluate student learning and gain immediate feedback on your teaching? Learn how to use the idea spinner in your courses to maximize the learning experience for your students. For additional ways to evaluate student learning, review this worksheet.
• Maura Sheehan, Professor from the Department of Health, shares an interesting pedagogical tool: iRubric. This tool has a ton of free rubrics for faculty to adapt within their courses. Maura also discusses how to incorporate this tool into D2L.
• Listen to Tina Selvaggi from the Department of Literacy discuss how to use E-Portfolio within a course. Follow the link for more information on how to use E-portfolio within D2L.
• Are you interested in using current event topics to promote class discussion and student interaction. Listen to Assistant Professor Nicole Cattano discuss how to use Scoop. It! effectively within your course(s).
• Student centered learning is creating discussion across higher education. Read the following article to discover techniques that can be used to accomplish this within a course syllabus and grading procedures.
• Are you teaching or considering offering a course in a blended/hybrid format? If yes, review this article on blended course design to help avoid common mistakes.