Teaching Law Practice Across the Curriculum
Workshop Handouts
The Institute's summer 2010 conference, "Teaching Law Practice Across the Currulicum," featured 23 workshops and one plenary session that explored techniques for teaching skills and professionalism across the law school curriculum.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
9:00-10:15 a.m. – Workshops Session 1
- Ebooks As Social Media, Courses As Communities Of Practice (Mayer)
- Integrating Courtroom Practice With Classroom Theory: Merging the Academy, Bar and Bench to Create a Collaborative Legal Learning Community (Berman)
» Get session handouts (1 MB PDF) - Incorporating Practical Exercises to Develop Students' Consultation Skills (Kreuser / Smit)
» Get session handouts (1.4 MB PDF) - What on Earth Could They be Thinking? Designing and Using Electronic Surveys to Find Out (Manning)
10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. – Workshops Session 2
- The Transfer of Learning in Legal Education: Using Schema Theory to Connect the Curriculum (Kowalski)
» Get session handouts (1 MB PDF) - Teaching the Mystique of Rule-Drafting and the Underlying Structure of Legal Analysis: Music, Math, and Magic (Goering / Neumann)
» Get session handouts (10.4 MB PDF) - Putting the Counsel back in Counselor: How to Implement Theories of Law and Social Work in a Law School Setting (Hagan / Boys)
» Get session handouts (216 KB PDF) - Find Them on Facebook: Using Facebook to Reach Students Where They Already Go (Lee)
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1:15-2:30 p.m. – Workshops Session 3
- Games Law Teachers Play: Teaching Legal Thinking Through Interactive Games (Franklin)
» Get session handouts (156 KB PDF) - Principles in Practice – Applied Ethics and Professionalism in Negotiations (Haupt / Grové)
» Get session handouts (174 KB PDF) - Best Intentions, Worst Results: The Pitfalls and Rewards of Innovative Teaching (Soonpaa)
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3:00-4:15 p.m. – Plenary Session
- Using Team Based Learning to Teach Collaborative Practice Skills (Sparrow / McCabe / Glesner Fines)
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Friday, June 18, 2010
9:30-10:45 a.m. – Workshops Session 4
- Self-Assessment Book (SAB): Reflective Thinking and Journaling in Law School (Guerra)
» Get session handouts (1.4 MB PDF) - Race, Class and Sex: A Winning Combination for a Cross-Curriculum Problem (Lawley)
» Get session handouts (841 KB PDF) [Note: Bridgit Lawley was unable to attend and present this session but has graciously provided her handouts.] - Beyond the Black Letter: Promoting the Learning Process through Continual Assessment in the First-Year Curriculum (Giannini / McCreary)
» Get session handouts (416 KB PDF) - Appreciative Inquiry: Discovering and Learning From Our Strengths as Teachers (Randon)
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11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Workshops Session 5
- Building a Bridge to Everywhere: Improving Transfer of Learning from Legal Writing Programs to Other Contexts (Alaka / Kowalski)
» Get session handouts (478 KB PDF) - Teaching Representation, Strategy and Problem-Solving in an Interactive Class (McQuillan / Benjamin / Babbitt)
» Get session handouts (956 KB PDF) - Formative Assessment: Successes and Difficulties in Giving Feedback (Blaustone)
» Get session handouts (236 KB PDF) - Not Your Mother's Rhetoric: Rhetorical Teaching Across the Curriculum (Berger / Painter-Thorne / Sneddon)
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1:30-2:45 p.m. – Workshops Session 6
- Getting a Grip: Frameworks for Assessing Instructional Mastery (Miller / Garretson / Krause-Phelan)
» Get session handouts (295 KB PDF) - Herding Cats: How To Achieve Faculty Cooperation In Teaching Lawyering Skills Across The 1L Curriculum (Without Infringing On Academic Freedom) (Schmitz / Robertson / Noble-Allgire)
» Get session handouts (565 KB PDF) - Teaching Law Students Using SIMPLE (SIMulated Professional Learning Environment) (Quentel)
» Get session handouts (125 KB PDF) - Modeling Success in Every Law School Class (Godfrey / Strubbe)
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