Teaching Tools for Law School Faculty

Revisiting the characteristics of effective education -- Implementing effective education in specific contexts -- Teaching the newly essential knowledge, skills, and values in a changing world

This process, which forces students to think and talk in radically new and toward different ways about conflicts, is directed by professors in the course of their lectures and examinations, and conducted via spoken and written language. Beth Mertz's book delves into that language to reveal the complexities of how this process takes place.

A Practical Guide to Teaching Law offers insights into designing courses, conducting classes, evaluating both faculty and students, and interacting with students."

Every discipline has its canon Although the last twenty-five years have seen the influence of interdisciplinary approaches to legal studies expand, there has been little recent consideration of what is and what ought to be canonical in the study of law today.

Applying the research on teaching and learning, this book guides new and experienced law teachers through the process of designing and teaching a course.

What makes a great law professor? The first study of its kind, identifies the methods, strategies, and personal traits of professors whose students achieve exceptional learning.

"This volume, under the presidency of Lee Shulman, is intended primarily to foster appreciation for what legal education does at its best. We want to encourage more informed scholarship and imaginative dialogue about teaching and learning for the law at all organizational levels: in individual law schools, in the academic associations, in the profession itself.

Introduction -- The big picture : consciously choosing what your course will aim to accomplish -- Preparing a new course -- In the classroom : overarching precepts -- In the classroom : the first day -- In the classroom : day-to-day teaching techniques -- Using technology to support your teaching -- Conducting the course review session -- The sensitive interval between the final class and the day of the exam -- Creating the exam -- Grading the exam -- Reviewing the exam -- Conclusion