LegalED, with the generous support of American University, Washington College of Law and its Pence Law Library, is organizing a one-day conference about Legal Education and Pedagogy. The conference, part of WCLs Founders Program, is Friday, April 4, 2014 at Washington College of Law, in Washington D.C.
Given the current market conditions, law school administrators and faculty are being asked to do more with less — to teach more practical skills, to establish learning outcomes, to provide students with formative assessment, to graduate practice-ready lawyers. Many of these requests ask members of the academy to stretch beyond our typical ways of teaching and to add more to our curriculum generally and to each individual course.
Recognizing that many professors are not trained to teach in this new way, this conference will gather leading law school educators together for a conference about law school pedagogy. Each presentation will be videotaped and uploaded to LegalED for professors around the country and the world to watch at their own pace. Instead of having panels of speakers, the conference will be structured like a TED conference. During the conference, each speaker will be asked to stand on the stage alone and speak for anywhere between 5 and 10 minutes, preferably without a podium. If a podium is used, it is not to read a written script, but to refer to brief notes. If powerpoint is used, it is mostly for graphics and images, with little text on the screen.
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