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Seminar Teaching: Some Thoughts

This seminar offers insights on overcoming challenges in low-enrollment courses, discussion groups, and paper writing for new law teachers. Learn techniques, such as group participation methods, response papers, and scheduling, to improve student engagement and outcomes.

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Seminar Teaching: Some Thoughts

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  1. Seminar Teaching: Some Thoughts AALS Workshop for New Law Teachers June 29, 2007 Margo Schlanger, Washington University in St. Louis

  2. Seminar Models • Low-enrollment course • Discussion group • Paper writing

  3. 1) Low-enrollment course Challenges: Few people can mean low energy Heavy burden on each student Balancing student/teacher participation Techniques: “Talk amongst yourselves” Group students for participation Speed rounds Facilitating discussion Don’t be afraid to talk

  4. Participation after “talk amongst yourselves” (First minute or so). Turn up volume

  5. Speed Round Through 2:30 (Kemp)

  6. Facilitating Discussion Through 1:08 (Melanie)

  7. 2) Discussion group Challenges: Unfamiliar types of materials Less directed kind of conversation (more space for development of their own ideas) Techniques: Response papers Hub and spoke conversation Class conversation

  8. Discussion Class Up volume: 0:07 to 3:00

  9. 3) Paper writing Challenges: Picking a topic Airing problems and insights Pacing of research and writing Maintaining group dynamic (?) Techniques: Offer topics to choose from Pairing/Brainstorming Setting a schedule (cont.) Presentations???

  10. Paper Writing Schedule • Pick an area, and then a topic (2-4 sentences). Confer (usually 2x). • Literature review. Confer. • Some item of research (case catalog, statutory summary, or whatever). Confer. • Draft. Confer. • Final.

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