Track 1: Maximizing What Law Students Learn From Experience: Building Effective Reflective/Classroom Components for Law Students in Field Placements under the new ABA Standard 305(e)7

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There
is a symbiotic relationship between the placement and the reflective/classroom
component of externships.  Both support
each other in helping the clinician/instructor gain a better understanding of
what students are learning, and provide students with a safe space to explore
and enhance their time in the field.
This session will begin with an analysis of how schools currently meet
the ABA Standards that govern the reflective/classroom component and an
exploration of creative and innovative ways that we could be going beyond the
minimal requirements.  
Because
no Field Placement Program wants to award credit for field work without a
reflective or classroom component, we as instructors need to evolve continually
to ensure that we add value to our students’ experiences in their field
placements.  With the diversity of
students and placements, how do we build a reflective/classroom component that
will be meaningful to the students and responsive to the placements?  How do we support this component of our work
in a way that feels real and connected to the students and their placements?
Attendees
will leave with a better understanding of the ABA Standards on the
reflective/classroom component and with innovative, inspiring and concrete
ideas of how our colleagues are approaching the reflective/classroom aspect of
field placement pedagogy.