Category: Pedagogy

“One of the things I really, really like here is we don’t admit students based on grades. We don’t even ask for their grades… The skill of exam writing… is not helpful in any way, shape, or form when you come to the clinics. Just because you’re a good exam writer does not mean you…

“We’re a pass/fail course and sometimes that has created some challenges ’cause we feel like some students will be like, “Well, I know I’m passing so I’m gonna put my clinic work off to the side while I focus on my other courses that I’m being graded on.” Again, it’s the mentality that because they’re not getting a grade in…

“The hardest thing for me when I started in this role was providing feedback to students. I really, really struggled because I knew what I thought things should look like and what they should be doing. But I had a really hard time communicating that to my students, because I didn’t want to hurt their…

“We were providing research and resources for a partner to write an advocacy brief… [I]t turned out that the student was interested in the topic, but from the opposite perspective of the client and had a really hard time writing from their perspective… [He] had really struggled with being a lawyer, getting instructions from a…

“I try every year to get feedback from the students, in some sort of anonymous way. They keep saying at the university that they’re going to—there’s these course evaluation things that students do, but they haven’t developed one for clinics that’s separate and so it’s like fitting a square peg into a round hole in terms of the questions they…