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It All Begins With You: Improving Law School Learning Through Professional Self-Awareness And Critical Reflection, Filippa M. Anzalone

Filippa Marullo Anzalone

From the author's introduction: This paper grows out of my reflections on my own introduction to learning theory. In it, I hope to accomplish two things. First, I present a modest proposal for becoming a better teacher. My thesis is simple: by knowing more about ourselves and our own learning processes, preferences, and inclinations, we will become better teachers. We will discover why we have elected to teach as we do, and we will also uncover when we have been on automatic pilot, blithely accepting the role of law professor, as conceived by our institutions, our students' expectations, and our …