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Start Date
19-6-2020 1:45 PM
End Date
19-6-2020 2:15 PM
Presentation Type
Event
Description
A sense of community and shared purpose are essential to student learning. But how do we build community online? And how can we do this starting on the first day? With this session, we share how we each create classroom community, as well as lay the foundation for our substantive learning objectives, from the very first day of our courses-a lawyering skills course at UCI Law and a legal research course at Richmond School of Law. We both use variations of a "vehicles" statute to engage students and create an environment that encourages exploration and empathy. Along the way, we have law students doing research and rule interpretation on the first day. Students explore search techniques, needing to separate keywords from concepts, in the legal research course. In the lawyering skills course, they make oral arguments for interpreting a municipal ordinance's use of "vehicles." Our presentation will explore each of our class models. We will also identify the common features of our approaches and explore how they might be applied to your own interactive first-day exercise to foster a spirit of engagement, empathy, and exploration among your students.
A Vehicle for Applied Skills on Day 1
A sense of community and shared purpose are essential to student learning. But how do we build community online? And how can we do this starting on the first day? With this session, we share how we each create classroom community, as well as lay the foundation for our substantive learning objectives, from the very first day of our courses-a lawyering skills course at UCI Law and a legal research course at Richmond School of Law. We both use variations of a "vehicles" statute to engage students and create an environment that encourages exploration and empathy. Along the way, we have law students doing research and rule interpretation on the first day. Students explore search techniques, needing to separate keywords from concepts, in the legal research course. In the lawyering skills course, they make oral arguments for interpreting a municipal ordinance's use of "vehicles." Our presentation will explore each of our class models. We will also identify the common features of our approaches and explore how they might be applied to your own interactive first-day exercise to foster a spirit of engagement, empathy, and exploration among your students.