Sessions Information

  • January 7, 2016
    10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
    Session Type: AALS Arc of Career Programs
    Session Capacity: 160
    Hotel: New York Hilton Midtown
    Room: Gramercy East
    Floor: Second Floor
    Structured peer support and on-going professional education are helpful to the project of attracting, training, and sustaining faculty members engaged in the demanding project of teaching students to be responsible members of the legal profession. We will discuss and demonstrate how a model of professional development that we originally used for clinical teachers—Rounds About Teaching—can benefit the entire faculty. Rounds about Teaching is a training model that builds a community of teachers who participate in regular facilitated peer conversations built upon the experience of teaching. In rounds conversations teachers can tell stories about events in their classrooms, get ideas about what and how to teach, reflect with supportive colleagues about the relationship between what they did and what they wanted to teach, and plan for the future with the benefit of the insights of others. We have found that building a community of teachers around the project of teaching makes each of us more conscious and deliberate in connecting the decisions we make in all phases of our teaching to both our own pedagogical goals and overall curricular design.
Session Speakers
City University of New York School of Law
Speaker

City University of New York School of Law
Speaker

American University, Washington College of Law
Moderator and Speaker

Georgetown University Law Center
Speaker

American University, Washington College of Law
Speaker

Session Fees
  • [4095] NEW: Arc of Career Program - Using Rounds about Teaching to Provide Peer Support and Learning Over the Course of a Career: Continuing Education for Teachers Who Educate Lawyers: $0.00