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Curriculum Review Working Party

Curriculum Review Working Party. Aimee Riley. Purpose. Detailed discussion of legal education issues Development of best practice guides Provide an area for member organisations to communicate with each other and assist each other with internal education issues. 2011 Discussion Areas.

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Curriculum Review Working Party

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  1. Curriculum Review Working Party Aimee Riley

  2. Purpose • Detailed discussion of legal education issues • Development of best practice guides • Provide an area for member organisations to communicate with each other and assist each other with internal education issues

  3. 2011 Discussion Areas • Feedback & Marking • Lectures & Tutorials • Legal Curriculum • Assessment & Graduate Attributes • Educational Methods

  4. Progressive Recommendations • ALSA will collaborate and collate datacollected on each topic and create handouts canvassing the issues and what we hope to achieve. • These handouts will provide an ideal overview of internal LSS education issues and be available online for members • You can pass these down to your new Presidents and VPs every year, ensuring your LSSs have smooth education handovers • These can also be used in submissions to your faculty – having a problem with feedback? Refer to the progressive recommendations.

  5. Communication • Come and talk about internal education issues you’re having with your faculty/ College • By working together, LSSs should become much more effective at lobbying at an internal level • This will be particularly helpful for new LSSs, who may not have the institutional memory on hand to provide clear-cut solutions to problems that may arise.

  6. First Meeting: Feedback & Marking Questions: • How should law schools measure learning? • How can different methods of marking foster continuous academic development? • Bell Curves/ Banded Marking: Is it desirable to have quantitative marking of qualitative assessment?

  7. First Meeting: Feedback & Marking • How to lobby for change in assessment – exemplar submissions • Information will be provided, such as: • Statistics on what constitutions “harsh marking”; • Methods of marking; and • Options for feedback (marking rubrics etc.) • We will put forward a potential model for ALSA to endorse – this will then form part of our Best Practice Guide for Feedback & Marking.

  8. Why get involved? • Train your Ed VPs fast and learn more about legal education • Become a more effective LSS • Get guidance on internal issues • Get younger committee members and students from your law school involved and learning about ALSA • Got a splinter group? Get them to join and express their views!

  9. Get involved! • Sign up to the working party and dial in to the teleconferences (dates on next slide) • Join the facebook group • Email educationofficer@alsa.asn.au and join the Curriculum Reform working party mailing list • Send out progressive recommendations and notices of meetings to your members • Use our resources

  10. Meetings October 2011-April 2012 • Working Party meetings will be held at the following times: • Feedback & Marking XX/XX/XX at XX am • Lectures & Tutorials XX/XX/XX at XX am • Legal Curriculum XX/XX/XX at XX am • Assessment & Graduate Attributes XX/XX/XX at XX am • Educational Methods XX/XX/XX at XX am

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