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A personal experience of PDP and progress files
Case study on the introduction of personal development planning and progress files at the University of Glamorgan, taken from the Reflections on personal development planning in law paper delivered...
E-portfolios in the professions: experiences from law, medicine and veterinary medicine
UKCLE’s Using e-portfolios in legal education project explored the use of e-portfolios in law. In this session at Learning in Law Annual Conference 2007, Patricia McKellar (UKCLE) gave an...
Examples of reflective practice
Case studies of reflective practice in law teaching, mainly taken from the UKCLE guide to Developing reflective practice in legal education Reflection in legal clinic Reflection on a work...
Getting started with e-portfolios
Advice on using e-portfolios by Patricia McKellar (UKCLE) and Karen Barton (Glasgow Graduate School of Law), developed as part of UKCLE’s Using e-portfolios in legal education project. Go to:...
Getting started with e-portfolios: advice for students, staff and employers
The three checklists below, developed as part of UKCLE’s Using e-portfolios in legal education project, give some advice for students, staff and employers on using e-portfolios – see Getting started...
Getting started with e-portfolios: Glasgow Graduate School of Law
Case study by Karen Barton of the use of e-portfolios at Glasgow Graduate School of Law, one of three pilots projects undertaken as part of UKCLE’s Using e-portfolios in legal education project. If...
Getting started with e-portfolios: Oxford Institute of Legal Practice
Case study by Liz Polding of the use of e-portfolios at Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, one of three pilot projects undertaken as part of UKCLE’s Using e-portfolios in legal education project. If...
Getting started with e-portfolios: University of Westminster
Case study by Jeanette Nicholas of the use of e-portfolios in the law school at the University of Westminster, one of three pilot projects undertaken as part of UKCLE’s Using e-portfolios in legal...
How can I introduce reflective practice into my teaching?
This section offers an overview and discussion of three approaches that support the facilitation of reflective practice; self and peer assessment, problem-based learning and personal development...
In the looking glass: reflection on past experience as a key to the future
Carol Boothby (Northumbria University) presented a paper looking at the use of reflection in Northumbria’s Student Law Office, aimed at supporting students in becoming lifelong learners. Carol’s...
Integrating reflective practice into the curriculum
This section considers the integration of reflective practice into the curriculum, addressing such issues as the alignment of learning objectives with assessment outcomes and the assessment of...
Introducing personal development planning at the University of Central England
This case study, by Val Humphreys of the University of Central England (now called Birmingham City University), was produced as part of the LTSN Generic Centre PDP project in 2001. It is one of a...
Introduction to developing reflective practice
In exploring how reflective practice can support and aid learning it is helpful to acknowledge how we learn. The following points can be made about the process of learning. First and foremost,...
PDP update: policy and practice
Update on PDP policy and practice in law, based on a paper entitled ‘Reflections on personal development planning in law’ delivered at the 2005 Socio-Legal Studies Association annual conference by...
Personal development planning and law
Sue Prince (University of Exeter), co-ordinator of the UKCLE PDP working group, compiled this position paper on personal development planning (PDP) and law in 2002. She concludes that PDP underpins...
Personal development planning in legal education
Personal development planning (PDP) is a way of providing evidence about what learners can do and how they have developed over a period of time. It can be used simply to monitor student progress, but...
PESCA: introducing personal development planning at Exeter
This case study, by Sue Prince of the University of Exeter, was produced as part of the LTSN Generic Centre PDP project in 2001. It is one of a series of nine case studies on the use of PDP across...
Portfolio-based learning and assessment
Julian Webb, University of Westminster This teaching resource note sets out to: Introduce portfolios as learning and assessment tools in academic and professional law courses and offer a range of...
Reflection in law teaching: a personal account
Case study by Hugh Brayne (University of Sunderland) illustrating the benefits of reflective practice for law teachers in a personal account mirroring the conversational and reflective approach...
Reflection in legal clinic
Case study by Richard Grimes (College of Law) outlining how legal clinics may be used to provide an opportunity for reflection. Aims To offer students an opportunity to put the theory of law into...
Reflection on a personal development skills module
Case study by Sheila Ryan and Sue Williams (University of Gloucestershire) illustrating the use of personal development planning (PDP) to encourage students to reflect on their work. As part of the...
Reflection on a work experience option
Case study by Sue Prince (University of Exeter) showing how one law school has gone about integrating student reflection with benchmarking and quality assurance requirements. During the academic...
Reflection using a virtual chat room
Case study by David Grantham (Coventry University) looking at the combination of problem-based learning with reflective practice, using a chat room as part of an undergraduate module on tort law....
Reflection with practitioner students
Case study by Jane Ching (Nottingham Trent University) outlining the use of reflective writing on postgraduate courses aimed at practitioners at Nottingham Law School. A substantial piece of...
Reflective activities matrix
Matrix (adapted from McGill and Brockbank, 1998) indicating some possible uses of reflection and identifying three contexts in which it might be used. Use it to identify what it is you want students...
Reflective diaries on the Bar Vocational Course
Case study by Joanne Lewthwaite (Manchester Metropolitan University) illustrating how reflective diaries have been used as part of the conference skills course on the Bar Vocational Course at MMU....
Reflective journals and essays on an LLM
Case study by Julian Killingley (University of Central England) illustrating how reflective journals and essays have been put into effect on the LLM in International Human Rights at UCE. Aims One...
Stopping to think: reflections on the use of portfolios
Karen Barton and Fiona Westwood, Glasgow Graduate School of Law This paper from Vocational Teachers Forum V describes a pilot project into the use of portfolios at Glasgow Graduate School of Law (...
Support and resources for developing reflective practice
In supporting students through the process of reflection there are a number of resources to use. You may wish to adapt some of the examples or ideas offered in this guide. Many can be used as a...
UKCLE personal development planning working group
In 2002 UKCLE gained funding from the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) to investigate the extent to which personal development planning (PDP) is taking place in legal education. The...
Using e-portfolios in legal education: key themes
UKCLE’s Using e-portfolios in legal education project piloted the use of e-portfolios in three institutions (Glasgow Graduate School of Law, Oxford Institute of Legal Practice and the University of...
What is reflective practice?
Moon defines reflective practice as “a set of abilities and skills, to indicate the taking of a critical stance, an orientation to problem solving or state of mind” (1999: 63). This encapsulates the...
What's in it for you?
At the heart of effective learning, teaching and assessment are the law teachers, and individuals engaged in information and communication technology (ICT) and library support. Advancing the...
What's reflection got to do with it?
Law is taught in institutions that are accountable to government, funding agencies and professional bodies. The government agenda for higher education is concerned with increasing participation,...
Writing learning objectives using Bloom's taxonomy
(Adapted from work by LeBrun and Johnstone (1994:162). See the UKCLE guidance note Ensuring successful assessment for additional examples of how to achieve learning objectives in the context of law.)...
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