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Are You Experienced? - Simple Timesheets For Experiential Learning Courses, Eleanor C. Lanier, Leslie Grove
Are You Experienced? - Simple Timesheets For Experiential Learning Courses, Eleanor C. Lanier, Leslie Grove
Presentations
ABA Standards require students to complete six credit hours of experiential learning. Hours must be tracked, and field placements in particular require students to keep logs of their activities to document compliance. Various web-based solutions are used, including “high-end suites like CORE ELMS, the Symplicity experiential learning module, and the basic and free Dropbox and Google Suite” as well as Canvas, and a time-tracking program called Tick. Here at the University of Georgia School of Law, we decided to add simple timesheet functionality to our Drupal-based student portal, allowing students to securely log their hours and activities, and faculty to …
Creating Assessment Tools For Students, Adjuncts, And Site Supervisors, Carolyn Broering-Jacobs, Carole O. Heyward
Creating Assessment Tools For Students, Adjuncts, And Site Supervisors, Carolyn Broering-Jacobs, Carole O. Heyward
Law Faculty Presentations and Testimony
During this workshop, we plan to explore how clinicians can assess student performance at project, course, and program levels using self-evaluation, peer evaluation, and faculty evaluation (focusing on clinical adjuncts and site supervisors).
Teaching And Assessing Professional Communication Skills In Law School, Denitsa R. Mavrova Heinrich
Teaching And Assessing Professional Communication Skills In Law School, Denitsa R. Mavrova Heinrich
Faculty Scholarship
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Legal Education In Transition: Trends And Their Implications, Michael A. Millemann, Sheldon Krantz
Legal Education In Transition: Trends And Their Implications, Michael A. Millemann, Sheldon Krantz
Faculty Scholarship
This is a pivotal moment in legal education. Revisions in American Bar Association accreditation standards, approved in August 2014, impose new requirements, including practice-based requirements, on law schools. Other external regulators and critics are pushing for significant changes too. For example, the California bar licensing body is proposing to add a practice-based, experiential requirement to its licensing requirements, and the New York Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, is giving third-year, second semester students the opportunity to practice full-time in indigent legal services programs and projects. Unbeknown to many, there have been significant recent changes in legal education that …