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	<title>Comments on: Collaborative Learning and Teams</title>
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		<title>By: Peter Joy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Joy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why don&#039;t law schools require law students to work in teams?  Like most good curriculum changes, it requires a little imagination.  So, let&#039;s imagine what would occur starting in the first year.

In the first year courses, each law professor would have students participate in at least one team project that the professor would access.  It could be a writing project or a simulation that is connected to the substantive material.  This approach would continue throughout law school, and professors would share their team problems and exercises with each other much like business school professors do. Casebooks would include questions that require discussion with at least one other student in the class, and the professor would call upon teams for their responses.  Seminar courses could require team papers.  At most law schools, some professors do at least one of these things, but I don&#039;t know of any law school that focuses on team learning.  With over 200 ABA-accredited law schools, one would hope that at least a few law schools would decide that it is time to be the leaders in team learning and education.  Who knows, perhaps some employers would want to recruit their students.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why don&#8217;t law schools require law students to work in teams?  Like most good curriculum changes, it requires a little imagination.  So, let&#8217;s imagine what would occur starting in the first year.</p>
<p>In the first year courses, each law professor would have students participate in at least one team project that the professor would access.  It could be a writing project or a simulation that is connected to the substantive material.  This approach would continue throughout law school, and professors would share their team problems and exercises with each other much like business school professors do. Casebooks would include questions that require discussion with at least one other student in the class, and the professor would call upon teams for their responses.  Seminar courses could require team papers.  At most law schools, some professors do at least one of these things, but I don&#8217;t know of any law school that focuses on team learning.  With over 200 ABA-accredited law schools, one would hope that at least a few law schools would decide that it is time to be the leaders in team learning and education.  Who knows, perhaps some employers would want to recruit their students.</p>
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