Teaching law students in law school before they become 'baby sharks'
Spacing and interleaving might sound like unusual pedagogical practices, but they might just be worth employing with your law students. In Want to Make Learning Stick? Make it Harder over on Age of Awareness at Medium, Nick Soderstrom argues for the adoption of some different techniques to improve learning outcomes. Spaced out... Cramming and long periods …
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This is the first of a series of posts on theories of learning and teaching – specifically the concepts of formal or explicit curricula and informal, implicit or ‘hidden’ curricula. This post sets the scene and provides an overview of traditional theories of learning.
But what if I told you though that now might be a good time to think about the end of the semester and student evaluations? Have you thought about their expectations?
The first day of semester at law school is rapidly approaching for law school in the southern hemisphere. You’ve spent days (or even weeks) compiling your curriculum, your reading list and writing assessment tasks. You might have even started to (re)write your lectures and lesson plans. But have you thought about your first day in …