Teaching Law Practice Across the Curriculum
Workshop Sessions at a Glance

The Institute's summer 2010 conference, "Teaching Law Practice Across the Currulicum," features 23 workshops and one plenary session that explore techniques for teaching skills and professionalism across the law school curriculum.

Workshops At A Glance is also available as a PDF (96 KB; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).

Registration and workshop sessions are at Washburn University School of Law.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. – Optional Teaching Lab (separate registration required) (Rooms 100, 106, 115, 120)

12:00-1:30 p.m. – Lunch (Room 119)

1:30-3:00 p.m. – Teaching Lab, continued

4:00-6:00 p.m. – Welcome Reception (optional)

Thursday, June 17, 2010

8:00 a.m. – Registration & Breakfast (2nd Floor Lobby)

8:30 a.m. – Opening (Room 120)

9:00-10:15 a.m. – Workshops Session 1

  1. Ebooks As Social Media, Courses As Communities Of Practice (Mayer) (Room 115)
  2. Integrating Courtroom Practice With Classroom Theory: Merging the Academy, Bar and Bench to Create a Collaborative Legal Learning Community (Berman) (Room 100)
  3. Incorporating Practical Exercises to Develop Students' Consultation Skills (Kreuser / Smit) (Room 119)
  4. What on Earth Could They be Thinking? Designing and Using Electronic Surveys to Find Out (Manning) (Room 106)

10:15 a.m. – Break (Room 120)

10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. – Workshops Session 2

  1. The Transfer of Learning in Legal Education: Using Schema Theory to Connect the Curriculum (Kowalski) (Room 119)
  2. Teaching the Mystique of Rule-Drafting and the Underlying Structure of Legal Analysis: Music, Math, and Magic (Goering / Neumann) (Room 100)
  3. Putting the Counsel back in Counselor: How to Implement Theories of Law and Social Work in a Law School Setting (Hagan / Boys) (Room 106)
  4. Find Them on Facebook: Using Facebook to Reach Students Where They Already Go (Lee) (Room 115)

12:00 p.m. – Lunch (Room 120)

1:15-2:30 p.m. – Workshops Session 3

  1. Games Law Teachers Play: Teaching Legal Thinking Through Interactive Games (Franklin) (Room 100)
  2. Principles in Practice – Applied Ethics and Professionalism in Negotiations (Haupt / Grové) (Room 106)
  3. Best Intentions, Worst Results: The Pitfalls and Rewards of Innovative Teaching (Soonpaa) (Room 119)

2:30 p.m. – Break (Room 120)

3:00-4:15 p.m. – Plenary Session (Room 100)

  1. Using Team Based Learning to Teach Collaborative Practice Skills (Sparrow / McCabe / Glesner Fines)

4:15 p.m. – Adjourn

4:30-6:30 p.m. – Reception at Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site

6:30 p.m. – Dinner on your own

Friday, June 18, 2010

8:30 a.m. – Breakfast (2nd Floor Lobby)

9:00 a.m. – Re-opening (Room 120)

9:30-10:45 a.m. – Workshops Session 4

  1. Self-Assessment Book (SAB): Reflective Thinking and Journaling in Law School (Guerra) (Room 102)
  2. Race, Class and Sex: A Winning Combination for a Cross-Curriculum Problem (Lawley) (Room )106
  3. Beyond the Black Letter: Promoting the Learning Process through Continual Assessment in the First-Year Curriculum (Giannini / McCreary) (Room 100)
  4. Appreciative Inquiry: Discovering and Learning From Our Strengths as Teachers (Randon) (Room 114)

10:45 a.m. – Break (Room 120)

11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Workshops Session 5

  1. Building a Bridge to Everywhere: Improving Transfer of Learning from Legal Writing Programs to Other Contexts (Alaka / Kowalski) (Room 114)
  2. Teaching Representation, Strategy and Problem-Solving in an Interactive Class (McQuillan / Benjamin / Babbitt) (Room 100)
  3. Formative Assessment: Successes and Difficulties in Giving Feedback (Blaustone) (Room 102)
  4. Not Your Mother's Rhetoric: Rhetorical Teaching Across the Curriculum (Berger / Painter-Thorne / Sneddon) (Room 106)

12:30 p.m. – Lunch (Room 120)

1:30-2:45 p.m. – Workshops Session 6

  1. Getting a Grip: Frameworks for Assessing Instructional Mastery (Miller / Garretson / Krause-Phelan) (Room 106)
  2. Herding Cats: How To Achieve Faculty Cooperation In Teaching Lawyering Skills Across The 1L Curriculum (Without Infringing On Academic Freedom) (Schmitz / Robertson / Noble-Allgire) (Room 114)
  3. Teaching Law Students Using SIMPLE (SIMulated Professional Learning Environment) (Quentel) (Room )102
  4. Modeling Success in Every Law School Class (Godfrey / Strubbe) (Room 100)

2:45 p.m. – Break (Room 120)

3:00 p.m. – Closing (Room 120)

3:30 p.m. – Adjourn