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So much work we need to do in this area. Happy that some pockets of legal education are embracing evidence-based teaching practice (law librarians, legal writing, academic support, & clinics, especially). How do we extend this beyond those contexts? /1 https://twitter.com/inspiredcat/status/1356425169900867585
I had a student ask this in one of my upper-level research classes last week--how do we get other professors to embrace this? (I incorporate info into my syllabus about the science behind we're using some of the techniques we do.) I told him I think it's been discussed more /2
in recent years, but that the law is slow to change. How do we incentivize those teaching the law to stay up-to-date in pedagogical practice when the current system doesn't reward that work?
I think abt why science-based pedagogy is so absent in legal education so often. Is it b/c it wasn't modeled for us when we were in law school? Do we need to be more open about sharing examples of how we're using evidence-based practices in our classrooms?
Been giving thought to writing/editing a book on some of these strategies & how to incorporate them into legal classrooms, but would like to identify a few others who'd be interested in working on this project w/ me (ideally, from different contexts: clinical, skills, doctrinal).
