Teaching and Learning Law
Resources for Legal Education

Professor Barbara Glesner Fines
University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law

 

Updated August 1, 2007

   PEER TEACHING --

     RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ASSISTANTS AND STUDY GROUP LEADERS

    Professor Barbara Glesner Fines
   University of Missouri _- Kansas City School of Law

 

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    TEACHING LAW
-- GENERAL RESOURCES FOR THE TEACHING OF LAW

 

 

 

 

ACADEMIC SUPPORT WEBSITES

·         AALS Section on Academic Support

·         LSAC:  the Law School Admission Council

o        Materials available from 1996 LSAC Northeast Regional Academic Support Workshop

·         Law School Academic Support Blog

TEACHING HANDBOOKS AND CENTERS FOR TEACHING & LEARNING

  • A Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence (by Barbara Gross Davis, Lynn Wood, Robert C. Wilson, U. Cal. – Berkeley.   The compendium is broken into twenty-five basic guidelines for effective teaching, each of which contains very specific examples and suggestions.)
  • Teaching Handbook
    (University of North Carolina Center for Teaching & Learning.  The handbook includes chapters on course planning and teaching and on evaluation.)
  • Teaching Tips 
    (University of NebraskaLincoln.  A fine collection of tips for planning, teaching and evaluating college courses, including such items as “learning students names” and “101 Things You Can Do the First Three Weeks of Class”)
  • Teaching Tips
    (Another outstanding compendium of teaching tips from the Illinois State Center for the Advancement of Teaching)
  • IDEA Papers

From the Individual Development and Educational Assessment Center (IDEA), research papers on a variety of teaching subjects

TEACHING FOR DIVERSITY

TECHNIQUES FOR ACTIVE LEARNING: CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT, SMALL GROUP LEARNING, & DIALOGUE

·        Teaching with Small Groups
(Prof. Glesner Fines, Essay on using small groups in teaching law classes)

·        Team Based Learning
(Interactive website introducing team learning methods developed by Larry K. Michaelsen, David Ross Boyd Professor of Management, Univ. Oklahoma)

·        The Cooperative Learning Center
(University of Minnesota, includes cooperative learning newsletter)

 

BACK TO SCHOOL -- ON-LINE COURSES IN EDUCATION & BASICS OF LEARNING THEORY

 

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TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING

·        CALI - The Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction

·        EDUCAUSEThe association for managing and using information resources in higher education. A nonprofit consortium of higher education institutions that facilitates the introduction, use, and access to and management of information resources in teaching, learning, scholarship, and research.

·        Teaching Learning and Technology Group
(An affiliate of the American Association for Higher Education)

 

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To Read More About It: RESOURCES & NEWSLETTERS

  • The Institute for Law School Teaching  at Gonzaga University School of Law
  • The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
  • Preparations for the Professions Program – Study of Legal Education (Senior Scholar Judith Wegner).  Read about this ongoing project to study legal education. 
  • ASK ERIC
    The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally-funded national information system that provides a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues; ASK ERIC is the Internet-based education information service of the ERIC System, headquartered at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology at Syracuse University.
  • Humanizing Legal Education Website prepared by Professor Larry Krieger of Florida State

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   LEARNING LAW
-- GENERAL RESOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF LAW

Study Strategies

General Study Skills Sites

General Law Student Sites & Articles


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