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What is excellence in law teaching?
over many years has sought to investigate excellence in teaching. In 1976 Kenneth Feldman attempted a systematic synthesis of research on the views of US students. He found that the following characteristics were consistently associated with effective teaching: stimulation …
Understanding good teaching: what do students say?
contributors | abstract | presentation | biographies Contributors Jessica Guth and Edward Mowlam (University of Bradford) Format Paper presentation Abstract This paper reports on the first phase of an empirical research project examining the idea of ‘…
UKCLE work with the CETLs
About CETLs 74 Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) were set up by HEFCE in January 2005, with a further seven centres established in Northern Ireland. The CETLs initiative aimed to embed excellence in teaching throughout the sector – see the Higher Ed…
UKCLE networking
centres, as well as with several Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs). Development of international links As part of the overall objective of promoting awareness of developments in legal education outside the UK UKCLE is developing links with the Faculty o…
Boosting the life cycle of the law teacher: from rookie to academic rock star
surveys of legal academics to help us define excellence as we see it in others. We can then look at the life cycle of these successful legal academics and identify factors, if any, that have led to their success. These factors, in turn, may help us decide what is professionally …
2009 conference: Enhancing legal education in Scotland
Big Bang: ensuring competence, promoting excellence (Liz and Collette’s slides) Workshops Paul Maharg (University of Strathclyde) led a workshop on the PEAT 1 Community of practice, which aims to share educational materials, approaches and resources for the new pr…
Response to the HEFCE strategic plan 2003-08
unrealistic. Some HEIs are already approaching excellence in more areas than others, and strength in breadth and depth may be more significant in the global arena than the national, regional or local, where all HEIs can aspire to achieve excellence in identified fields. We think…
Law Teacher of the Year
are nominated for the award, but what is excellence in law teaching? Tracey Varnava (UKCLE) reports on the search for the legal education X factor. Previous Law Teachers of the Year 2010 – Rebecca Huxley-Binns, Nottingham Trent University 2009 – Gary Watt, Unive…
Musings from the Law Teacher of the Year 2006
of the Year initiative aims to celebrate excellence in teaching and to identify a UK law teacher who has made an exceptional contribution to law teaching, through innovation, effectiveness and/or student support. The competition is open to all UK law teachers, and requires a wri…
ETHICS (Ethics Teaching Highlighted In Contextualised Scenarios)
Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). The case studies, known as scenarios, provide examples of topical and controversial issues suitable for use in teaching both undergraduate and vocational students. They include guidance f…
Research-based learning at Warwick
Centre The Reinvention Centre, a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), aims to put research at the heart of the undergraduate curriculum and to integrate students into the research cultures of their subjects and universities. One of the centre’s key ou…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2007
in a forum that both inspired and created excellence in teaching and learning. Keynote speakers Our keynote speakers were Harry Arthurs (Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada) and Peter Williams (Quality Assurance Agency) – see the keynote speakers page for more and read Har…
More significant than the Dearing Report?
teaching proficiency and to reward teaching excellence; another is the emphasis upon regional development. Whilst the efficacy and sufficiency of the response is being hotly debated, the proposals hold potentially significant implications for the study of law. Increased access…
Chair's report: Caroline Maughan
Student Advisor scheme is the view that excellence in higher education requires us to recognise and commit to the diversity of students’ needs and concerns. The scheme works well because it fosters relationships between postgraduate and undergraduate students. The advisers hav…
Sustainability policy
professional bodies, the ESD Centres for Excellence and other relevant agencies and stakeholders. In order to give added credibility to this curriculum related work, UKCLE will seek to align its own practices and activities with sustainability principles. The UKCLE team are th…
UKCLE sustainability policy
professional bodies, the ESD Centres for Excellence and other relevant agencies and stakeholders. In order to give added credibility to this curriculum related work, UKCLE will seek to align its own practices and activities with sustainability principles. The UKCLE team are th…
References
teachers Astin A (1993) Assessment for excellence: the philosophy and practice of assessment and evaluation in higher education (American Council on Education Series) Phoenix: Oryx Press Becker H, Geer B and Hughes E (1968) Making the grade: the academic side of college …
Legal education in Northern Ireland
of the seven Northern Ireland Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Quality Assurance Agency in Northern Ireland General Council of the Bar of Northern Ireland Law Society of Northern Ireland …
Awards for learning and teaching
NTFS Individual Awards recognise and reward excellence in teaching. National Teaching Fellows in law: 2009 – Paul Raffield (University of Warwick) and Penny Wiggins (University of Hertfordshire) Find out more about their work in our news story – more about Pau…
UKCLE vision
Values The Centre’s operating values are: Excellence deliver a high quality service that is responsive and timely develop the expertise of Centre staff and of the legal education community promote outstanding quality in the teaching and learning of law …
The link between quality legal education and student pastoral care: the Queen Mary experiment of ‘graduate student advisers’
of concerns and needs. I will argue that excellence in legal education also requires a genuine commitment to the pastoral needs of students. As my basis for this, I will draw upon a recent initiative of the Queen Mary Law Department, called the “Graduate Student Adviser”…
The internationalisation of law degrees and enhancement of graduate employability
competitive and knowledge-based economy with excellence in education. Dual qualification programmes have a key role to play in increasing European integration in legal education, giving students competency in two legal systems and fluency in two languages as well as enhanced …
12 steps to success: producing a quality legal research paper
2002 she was awarded a Law Faculty Teaching Excellence Award and in 2004 received a Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award for her work on graduate attributes and legal research curriculum development and teaching. She publishes in the areas of legal research, info…
UKCLE guide to subject review: appendices
contribution to the provision being assessed. Excellence alone does not make a feature exemplary. For example, a unique programme might be of excellent quality, but its features would not be exemplary if no other programme existed that could emulate them. ‘Exempla…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
(PDF file) presented at King’s 2008 Excellence in Teaching Conference. Ausubel’s theory of assimilative learning predicts that prior knowledge and its structure are important as a basis on which to anchor new knowledge. Concept mapping, originally developed by Nova…
Assessment in legal education
improve student learning Two Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) are focused on assessment: Assessment for Learning (AfL) – includes case studies of modules using the ‘assessment for learning’ approach Assessment Standards Knowled…
A practice survey of the teaching, learning and assessment of law in undergraduate medical education
education London: Social Care Institute for Excellence Braye S & Preston-Shoot M (2006) Learning, teaching and assessment of law in social work education: resource guide London: Social Care Institute for Excellence Braye S, Preston-Shoot M & Johns R (2006) ‘Los…
A time for learning and teaching? Making the most of the sabbatical
publications on pedagogy in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) There is little evidence that sabbaticals for research into pedagogy in law are widely offered, compared with the availability of sabbaticals for discipline-based research. One of the ways to raise the profi…
Subject review judgements and reports
assessed. “Exemplary” signifies not just excellence, but excellence which is generalisable and transferable.” Additional details Subsequent to the publication of the its handbook for academic review the QAA has (November 2000) issued further advice on…
Visiting Fellowship Scheme
in learning and teaching. Two Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning are based at Warwick: The Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research The CAPITAL Centre, which operates in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company to focus on creativity and performanc…
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