Ronald K. Wetherington
Heroy Hall, Room 402
(214)768-2927
Bridging Levels of Education
Professor Wetherington has long been active in seeking ways to improve
learning and to motivate students at all educational levels. He developed and has conducted an
annual four-day interdisciplinary science and humanities curriculum for 8th Grade
students, "The Taos Odyssey" , held at SMU-in-Taos, since 1997.
Dallas' Christ the King School added the Odyssey to their formal curriculum in 2002. Other
participating schools have included Bishop Dunne and Prince of Peace.
He also developed and conducted a week-long "Professional
Development Workshop" at the request of the Episcopal School of
Houston, held in Taos in the summers of 2004 and 2005. At the other end of the
educational continuum, Wetherington devised a series of adult education short-course
modules as a proposal for SMU-in-Taos. In 2005 the first of
these "SMU Cultural Institute" offerings was
held, with an enthusiastic response.
On campus, Professor Wetherington organized the initial
"Teaching Effectiveness Symposium" in 1992,
which has become the flagship event for the CTE at the beginning of the fall term, and
the "TA Seminar", held each August for first-year graduate students at SMU.
Teaching and Research Interests
Professor Wetherington's graduate and undergraduate
course offerings include Human Evolution, which contributes to the
undergraduate laboratory science requirement, Forensic Anthropology,
an Osteology laboratory course for graduates and undergraduates, and a
non-credit course required of departmental graduate students to prepare them for the
professoriate: Learning to Teach - Teaching to Learn.
His research interests include the historical archaeology of the
U.S. Southwest, including Cantonment Burgwin. His most recent excavations at Burgwin
were in 2000 and 2001.
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