2006 Workshop for New Law Teachers &
Workshop for New Clinical Teachers
June 22 – 25, 2006
Washington, D.C.
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Program - Workshop for New Law Teachers
(click here for the New Clinical Teachers Program)
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Thursday, June 22, 2006
4:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Registration
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Small Group Discussions
The planning committee strongly encourages attendance at this first set of small group discussions.
7:15 p.m.
AALS Sponsored Dinner
Welcome
Elizabeth Hayes Patterson, AALS Deputy Director
Introduction
Todd D. Rakoff, Harvard Law School and Chair, Planning Committee for the 2006 AALS Workshop for New Law Teachers and Workshop on Clinical Legal Education
Speaker: Suellyn Scarnecchia, University of New Mexico
The vast majority of people who start out as law teachers retire as law teachers. Dean Scarnecchia will address the habits, attitudes, and ups and downs of successful professors over their careers in law teaching. Dean Scarnecchia will also discuss both the challenge of teaching a single course and the challenge of teaching through one lifetime.
8:30 p.m.
AALS Dessert Reception
Friday, June 23, 2006
8:00 - 8:50 a.m.
AALS Section on Minority Groups Continental Breakfast with Questions and Answers
8:30 - 8:50 a.m.
Coffee, Tea and Breakfast Pastry
9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Nuts and Bolts
Dorothy Andrea Brown, Washington and Lee University
Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Chicago-Kent College of Law
In this give-and-take session, two experienced and successful teachers exchange views on a variety of “nuts and bolts” issues for the new teacher, including: choosing a casebook, preparing a syllabus for students, creating notes for teaching, establishing an effective classroom environment, using traditional and alternative teaching methods, and dealing with difficult students.
10:15 - 10:30 a.m.
Refreshment Break
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Learning Theory
Alison Grey Anderson, University of California, Los Angeles
Gerald F. Hess, Gonzaga University
Professors Anderson and Hess will focus on the classroom from the learner’s point of view. This will stimulate a conversation about learning theory and effective teaching methods.
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Question & Answer Session
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
AALS Luncheon
Speaker to be announced
1:40 - 3:00 p.m.
Demonstrations of Teaching Techniques and Questions & Answer Session
Okianer Christian Dark, Howard University
Heather K. Gerken, Harvard Law School
Professors Dark and Gerken experienced teachers will show and tell, as they use video excerpts of their classes to demonstrate a range of teaching techniques and approaches, including traditional Socratic teaching, teaching which integrates non-legal materials and non-doctrinal perspectives into course material, and teaching which draws on modern technology. Following their presentations, participants will have a chance to discuss the pros and cons of various approaches in small group discussions.
3:15 - 4:15 p.m.
Small Group Discussions
4:15 - 4:30 p.m.
Refreshment Break
4:30 - 5:45 p.m.
Assessment
Ann L. Iijima, William Mitchell College of Law
Steven I. Friedland, Nova Southeastern University
Professors Friedland and Iijima will address four topics: principles of effective assessment, lessons learned by experienced teachers, feedback to students, resources for constructing exams and other forms of assessment.
5:45 - 6:45 p.m.
AALS Reception
5:45 - 6:15 p.m.
AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research Informal Gathering
AALS Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Informal Gathering
Saturday, June 24, 2006
8:00 - 8:50 a.m.
AALS Section on Women in Legal Education Continental Breakfast with Questions & Answers
8:30 - 8:50 a.m.
Coffee, Tea and Breakfast Pastry
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Scholarship and Questions and Answers
Martha L. Minow, Harvard Law School
Ronald F. Wright, Wake Forest University
Professors Minow and Wright will address many of the hard questions about the “how-to” of scholarship. How do you start the writing process? When, where and how should you submit your manuscript? How do you handle student editors? What should you do when it (finally) is in print? How can the new professor approach that first article with an appreciation both for the practicalities of succeeding with the initial piece and for the longer term implications of being able to build on the earlier work?
11:00 - 11:15 a.m.
Refreshment Break
11:15 - 12:30 p.m.
Small Group Discussions
12:45 - 1:45 p.m.
AALS Luncheon
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Junior Faculty Feedback
Erin E. Murphy, University of California, Berkeley (1st year)
Kimberly Jeneece Jenkins, Emory University (2nd year)
Daniel P. Tokaji, The Ohio State University (3rd year)
This panel will include three ‘alumni’ of past AALS New Law Teachers Workshops. They will address the variety of issues and challenges new law teachers face and tell you what they wish they knew then that they know now.
3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Workshop Wrap-Up
Suellyn Scarnecchia, University of New Mexico
A good course sometimes evolves during the term, with the professor and students, through interaction, developing new insight, and the professor wrapping up those insights with a coherent overview at the end of the term. In this session, Dean Scarnecchia will pull together the insights of the workshop, reflect upon how participants might best make use of them in the future, and remind participants of their career-long challenges and opportunities.
Program - Workshop for New Clinical Teachers
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Saturday, June 24, 2006
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Registration
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Small Group Discussions
7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
AALS Reception
Sunday, June 25, 2006
8:30 - 8:50 a.m.
Coffee, Tea and Breakfast Pastry
9:00 - 9:15 a.m.
Welcome
David A. Koplow, Georgetown University, Member of the Planning Committee, Workshop for New Law Teachers and Workshop for New Clinical Teachers
9:15 - 10:30 a.m.
Goals of Clinical Legal Education: Why Do We Teach?
Elliott S. Milstein, American University
Barbara A. Schatz, Columbia University
10:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Refreshment Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Skills and Values of Clinical Legal Education: What Do We Teach?
Jane H. Aiken, Washington University
Jon C. Dubin, Rutgers, The State University of N.J., Newark
Catherine F. Klein, The Catholic University of America
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
AALS Sponsored Luncheon
History of Clinical Legal Education
J. L. Pottenger, Jr., Yale Law School
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Pedagogy of Clinical Legal Education: How Do We Teach?
Bryan L. Adamson, Seattle University
Susan R. Jones, George Washington University
2:45 - 3:00 p.m.
Refreshment Break
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Small Group Discussions
4:45 - 5:30 p.m.
Evaluation of Students in Clinical Legal Education
Kim Diana Connolly, University of South Carolina
Deborah Epstein, Georgetown University
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