Theme: The Evolving Legal Writing Classroom
Presentations might address the following:
- LRW: It's more than a memo; bringing drafting, negotiations, oral communications, and electronic communications into the classroom.
- Teaching with technology
- Teaching to different learners
- Expanding the LRW curriculum
- Upper-level courses, writing across the curriculum, collaborating with clinics
- Assessing what we do
- Presentations which focus on teaching writing as a process: Critical reading, Rule formation, Research Plans, Outlining
- Continuing to teach good writing skills in upper division courses
- Collaborating with clinics and building on the externship experience
- Preparing students to work with mid-level and senior attorneys; preparing students for solo practice
- Developing teaching techniques that take into account not only the generational shift but also students’ cultural and legal traditions
- ESL and EFL challenges; Collaborating with ASP
- Where are legal markets going? And what skills will our students need?
- Exercises and program innovations which prepare practice-ready students
- Hot topics in teaching
Date: December 4, 2015
Site Chair: Carol Knoepfler
Email: CarolKnoepfler@creighton.edu