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Supporting postgraduates who teach: learning from our experience
In November 2003 UKCLE held an event for postgraduates who teach (often known as graduate teaching assistants – GTAs). This article from the Spring 2004 issue of Directions draws on the feedback provided by the participants to derive a number of conclusions about the curre…
Supporting new law teachers
database can also be searched by topic. Postgraduates who teach Learning from our experience, an article from the Spring 2004 issue of Directions, describes the provision of support to graduates teaching assistants. Sources of information: National Postgraduate Commit…
Supporting new law teachers
database can also be searched by topic. Postgraduates who teach Learning from our experience, an article from the Spring 2004 issue of Directions, describes the provision of support to graduates teaching assistants. Sources of information: National Postgraduate Commit…
Planning for small group teaching
Tips for postgraduates on small group teaching from David Grantham (National Teaching Fellow), presented at the UKCLE event on supporting postgraduates who teach on 7 November 2003. What is a small group? Nomenclature varies between institutions, but small group teaching ma…
Assessing student work and providing feedback
Tips for postgraduates on assessing student work and providing feedback from John Bell (Cambridge University), presented at the UKCLE event on supporting postgraduates who teach on 7 November 2003. Tips on assessment and feedback What sort of assessment task should be set? …
Understanding student learning styles and theories of learning
Overview of student learning styles and theories of learning from David Grantham (National Teaching Fellow), presented at the UKCLE event on enhancing academic practice on 3 February 2005. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be i…
Giving conference papers and preparing to publish
Overview of giving conference papers and preparing to publish from Stephen Shute (University of Birmingham), presented at the UKCLE event on enhancing academic practice on 3 February 2005. Giving conference papers How do I select the right conference? build up knowledge…
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 route on this course allows students to do an extended internship in the US …
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 one year module in personal development skills on the postgraduate Certificate…
Giving conference papers and preparing to publish
Overview of giving conference papers and preparing to publish from Stephen Shute (University of Birmingham), presented at the UKCLE event on enhancing academic practice on 3 February 2005. Giving conference papers How do I select the right conference? build up knowledge…
Interdisciplinary learning for the work-based student
In her paper at the Learning in Law Annual Conference 2010, Caroline Coles (De Montfort University) took a look at teaching methods for law to benefit the work-based student. Caroline’s slides are embedded below. How can we provide legal education in a meaningful a…
Developing research skills
In her paper Caroline Coles (De Montfort University) presented an analysis of the need for advanced research skills and led a discussion on tools and techniques to encourage critical thinking. Caroline’s slides are embedded below. Caroline’s teaching seeks to …
S, not E: the methodology and results of S mode learning
In his paper Scott Slorach (College of Law) presented the S mode learning methodology, a new approach to learning design used on a distance learning LLM. Editor’s note: see the report into e-learning at the College of Law (PDF file, 2009) by Richard Susskind to find o…
More significant than the Dearing Report?
Editorial from the Spring 2003 issue of Directions looking at recent government policy pronouncements on higher education. Reports on aspects of higher education are plentiful these days, but the long awaited white paper, The future of higher education, is potentially the mos…
More imagination, less dogma: the role of the LLB
In this editorial from the Autumn 2004 issue of Directions Roger Burridge, then UKCLE Director, reflects on the continuing debate over the role of the LLB in legal education. Few jurisdictions, including the US, contemplate their legal education more than the UK. The unique U…
Chair's report: Caroline Maughan
daily three hour drop-in surgeries. The postgraduates also run workshops on essay writing, revision and exam technique. Demand for the service has been high, and feedback very positive. The postgraduates are trained and have strong links with the other support services offered b…
Teaching legal research
and librarians teaching undergraduates and postgraduates how to research law, the book will also be of interest to librarians in law firms involved in devising and delivering training to newly appointed trainee solicitors. Written by Peter Clinch (Cardiff University), the book…
SIMPLE: learning through simulations
simulations that place both undergraduates and postgraduates in a professional context where their work is, as it will be in the workplace, distributed between tools, colleagues and resources, as well as encountering anticipated and unanticipated problems. The open source SIMP…
Developing an interactive multimedia guide to enhance legal research skills
skills instruction to undergraduates and postgraduates. In the 2002-03 academic year they were responsible for 130 hours of information skills teaching. The further expansion of student numbers and in particular the demands of postgraduate professional studies programmes n…
Developing students’ critical thinking skills through peer assessment and information literacy
legal research skills to undergraduates and postgraduates since 2001. Her professional interests include the practical application of information literacy principles in the teaching of legal research skills. She is currently working with the law school to embed information liter…
Counting the cost of the law degree
guidance from experienced librarians, tutors or postgraduates teaching assistants. Whilst all disciplines are exploring programmes that utilise experiential, problem based and reflective learning methods, law can lay claim to these being more significant than most other discip…
Whose 'version' of the facts? Working on the margins of outsiders' stories and lawyers' theories of the case
Students on the LLM are a mixture of younger postgraduates, typically immediately pre- or post-vocational training, and professionals working in the criminal justice system, such as police officers, solicitors, barristers and caseworkers from the Crown Prosecution Service. Among…
Curriculum development
to undergraduates but also to vocational postgraduates wishing to refresh their grasp of first year undergraduate topics such as contract and tort. Instruction in accessing and using courseware can fall neatly within legal research skills. I believe the form of presentation an…
Reassessing band funding for law: a discussion paper
guidance from experienced librarians, tutors or postgraduates. At present the process is taught at differing levels of intensity. It is widely reported by employers, teachers on vocational programmes and others (including in 2001 the Chairman of the Law Society’s Training …
Lesson materials and teaching aids
of legal research skills instruction) and postgraduates. Although Current Law is now available electronically, the details of what it contains and the principles of when to use the source remain valid. Using Halsbury’s Laws – 1 × 12 minute VHS tape made by the…
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Developing reflection and autonomy in law
This seminar, building on the work of UKCLE's "personal development planning working group":/resources/personal-development-planning/ukcle-personal-development-planning-working-group/, explored how reflective and critical skills are currently being developed and assessed in UK la...…
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