Dr. Martin Luther King, “The Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” and IRAC?
Continuing from Professor Goldie Pritchard's excellent post yesterday regarding "Student Motivation and MLK Celebration Day,"…
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Four Posts on Using Cognitive Psychology by Louis Schulze
If you have not seen the four posts on The Faculty Lounge by Louis N.…
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Empirical Evidence that Formative Assessment Improves Final Exams
Hat tip to Sandra L. Simpson at Gonzaga for sending out the link to the…
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Some Thoughts on Teaching Outlining, etc.
As mentioned in a previous blog, most of my law school outlines were - simply…
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Foreign Students and Class Participation
Many of our law schools have exchange or L.L.M. foreign students enrolled in our courses.…
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Legal Ed Videos on Teaching
Hat tip to Dr. Victoria Sutton, Texas Tech Law's Associate Dean for Research and Faculty…
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The Counterpoint to Laptop Bans
Much has been said about the positives of banning laptops in the classroom. Proponents of…
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Giving struggling students a workbook of practice questions
When a student is placed on Academic Probation, I meet with them once a week…
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Icebreakers in the Classroom
Do you ever wonder whether your icebreakers at the beginning of the course or a…
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More on Trigger Warnings
The discussion of trigger warnings has continued in recent issues of The Chronicle of Higher…