Teaching Law Practice Across the Curriculum
Plenary Session

Thursday, June 17, 2010 – 3:00-4:15 p.m.

Using Team Based Learning to Teach Collaborative Practice Skills (Room 100)

Sophie Sparrow, Franklin Pierce Law Center
Margaret Sova McCabe, Franklin Pierce Law Center
Barbara Glesner Fines, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

Team-based learning is "group work on steroids" and is an exciting and effective teaching strategy for not only engaging students but also for teaching them an essential professional skill: collaboration. Through video clips and interactive exercises, this session focuses on how to design courses and classes that enable students to become self-regulated, powerful learning teams. Because it applies the best practices about teaching and learning, team-based learning can be used across the curriculum to help students achieve deep understanding and mastery of doctrine, skills, and values.