Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research

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Session Type: Section Pedagogy Programs

Session Capacity: 270

Location: Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel

Room: Empire West

Floor: Second Floor

This panel will describe pedagogy techniques informed by current knowledge of cognitive science and student performance. First, faculty and students’ knowledge about the “growth mindset” can help new and experienced law teachers improve student learning. The panel will discuss how students can improve their performance by adopting a growth mindset. Second, student performance can also be improved when teachers use team-based learning techniques. Students working with team-based learning techniques come alive in the classroom! The panelists will outline teamwork skills to enhance in-class learning, using a sequence of steps to make collaborative learning effective. Team-based learning can follow a model of individual work, followed by teamwork, followed by feedback. Lastly, legal-writing professors create language as they model analysis and teach through worked examples of the writing process. The panelists will address building a useful vocabulary and pairing it with examples-based learning in first-year classes and beyond.