Teaching Law Practice Across the Curriculum
Agenda for Teaching Lab – June 16, 2010
9:30-9:45 a.m. – Welcome, Goals, Intros (name, institution, goal, surprise) (Room 120)
9:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. – Working Groups and Individual Projects
Working groups will spend approximately an hour working collaboratively on brainstorming ideas, identifying potential obstacles, and crafting solutions. In the second hour, participants will focus on a specific, concrete project within the general area, and the facilitators will rotate in and out of the four working group rooms.
- Working Group 1: Course planning, including designing assessments and assignments. Facilitator: Michael Hunter Schwartz (Room 115)
This working group will work on developing a general plan of action for planning a course, including making plans for assessing the effectiveness of the course and evaluating students. - Working Group 2: Creating opportunities for practice and feedback without killing yourself. Facilator: Sandra Simpson (Room 120)
This working group will work on adopting sustainable approaches to providing your students with meaningful opportunities for practice and feedback. - Working Group 3: Creating Simulations and Bringing Real Life into Law Teaching. Facilitator: Gerry Hess (Room 106)
This group will work on developing authentic learning experiences for students that place students in their future roles as practitioners and are based on real life problems and materials. - Working Group 4: Reviewing and discussing videotapes of participants' or other law teachers' teaching. Facilitator: Sophie Sparrow (Room 119)
This working group will discuss general goals in reviewing videotapes of teaching, your personal goals in reviewing videotapes, and the various types of valuable data and other information we can collect. The videotapes may be videotapes of the participants' own teaching or Institute videos.
