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Does A Spoonful of Sugar Help the Medicine Go Down?
With apologies to Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, I want to talk about using food…
Team-Teaching: Constant Conversations about Teaching
If you have the opportunity to team-teach a course at your law school, jump at…
Law is not creative writing
When reviewing 1L's first drafts of practice exams, there is one problem that always comes…
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Fixed and Growth Mindsets – Another Resource
Thanks to Jennifer Cooper at Thomas Jefferson for the mention on the ASP Listserv of a book…
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Additional Items on the Fixed Mindset and Growth Mindset
Hat tip to Jennifer Romig at Emory University for a link on the LRW Prof listserv…
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TED-Ed as a Teaching Tool
Many of you are probably already aware of the TED education video/flipped lessons website. If…
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Raising your game: co-teaching a class
This semester, I have the privilege of co-teaching an introduction to law course with a…
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Losing the Lecture
There is a great piece from NPR about physicists reworking their large lecture courses after…
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“Digital Natives” and Learning
Hat tip to the Law Librarian Blog for information on Brian Cowan's article on November…
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“Retrieval Practice”-Creating Tests that Reaffirm Knowledge
What do you want your tests to accomplish? Are they meant to measure learning that…