(Advance sign-up for workshops was required. Attendance is limited and not open to walk-ins.)
Looking to change your experiential learning curriculum? Finding yourself designing a whole new program, clinic, or externship course? Whether your focus is social justice lawyering, skills, ethics, and/or substantive knowledge, this workshop will help you design a course that turns your teaching goals into learning outcomes and situates the course within your school’s broader mission. Participants will read about and use backward design, an approach to instructional design pioneered by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, to build a course of each participant’s choosing. Participants will also use a draft of an upcoming publication written by Carwina Weng, Meg Reuter, Chris Roberts, and
Danielle Cover as a model for creating an effective, intentionally designed instructional path. By the end of the workshop, participants will have identified the intellectual home for their course, learning goals, final assessment, evaluation rubric, and learning outcomes. They also will receive feedback from colleagues and facilitators on their drafts.