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Program Design for Newcomers

a presentation byKen Rosenblum

Touro College – Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law CenterCharlotte Taylor

DePaul University College of LawDennis Tonsing

Roger Williams University Ralph R. Papitto School of LawCarole Wastog

Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville

Identifying the goals of your program

Identifying the different ways to meet those goals

This presentation willconsist of two parts:

What are theGoals of the Program?

From the perspective of:

• The Dean

• The Associate/Assistant Dean

• The Faculty

• The Students

• You – the ASP professional

What are theGoals of the Program?

• Retention• Recruitment tools• Access to information• Increase Diversity• Resource for

Students• Prevent isolation of

minority students• Appease students

• Bar Prep

• Teach Skills

• Teach Substance?

• Help the bottom of the class

• Target “at risk” students

• Make your school look good

Looking at four different “case studies”– Touro College

• Ken Rosenblum

– Roger Williams University• Dennis Tonsing

– DePaul University• Charlotte Taylor

– Louis Brandies School of Law• Carole Wastog

How do you implementthose Goals?

Program Design for Newcomers

a presentation by

Charlotte TaylorAssistant Dean for Multicultural Affairs

DePaul University College of Lawco-author of Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School: Strategies

for Success (Carolina Academic Press 2001)

How do you implementthose Goals?

• A Case Study – DePaul– Goals at DePaul

• Target & retention of “at risk” students• Assist students in jeopardy• Access to information

– DePaul began as a program for minority students and has now become a program for all “at risk” students

Goal – Target & Retention of “at risk” students

• “Small” twice weekly classes for “at risk” students– Other students can get in from

wait list– 2 strikes and you’re out– Class focuses on skills and

NOT substance– Use as text Bridging the Gap

Between College and Law School: Strategies for Success by Stropus and Taylor

Goal – Assist students in academic jeopardy

• Small classes and/or individualized help for students in academic jeopardy– Depends on what students

need and want– Offer counseling for personal

and academic problems– Same focus is on teaching

skills (outlining, exam prep, etc. again using Bridging the Gap by Stropus and Taylor)

Goal – Access to Information• Monthly workshops

– that focus on skills for all 1st year students

• Website– that includes presentations from

monthly workshops, tips on time mgmt, outlining, etc., links to websites with practice exams & more

• ASP library – with various study aids for students to borrow

• Materials on reserve in law library – with videotapes from monthly workshops

as well as handouts, study aids, etc.

Remember: two steps to creating or modifying a program:

1. What are the goals of your program?

2. How will you implement those goals?

Roger Williams University

Ralph R. Papitto School of Law

Academic Support Program

Spring 2002

What we’ll cover . . .

Input, Buy-In, Idea Generation

ASP Program Objectives

ASP Program Components

Chrissy Mann

Chrissy Mann Bruce

Kogan

Bruce Kogan

InputConferences with Law SchoolFaculty & Administration . . .Laurie

Barron

Laurie Barron

Kathleen Burch

Kathleen Burch

Lucinda Harrison-Cox

Lucinda Harrison-Cox

Kim BakerKim Baker

Robert KentRobert Kent

John Kunich

John Kunich

Debra Cohen

Debra Cohen

Jessica Elliott

Jessica Elliott

Peter Margulies

Peter Margulies

Elizabeth Colt

Elizabeth Colt

Linda Vieira

Linda Vieira

Diana HasselDiana Hassel

Andrew Horwitz

Andrew Horwitz

Christel Ertel

Christel Ertel

Carl Bogus

Carl Bogus

Kathy Massa

Kathy Massa

Lisa McElroy

Lisa McElroy

John Moffa

John Moffa

Colleen Murphy

Colleen Murphy

Chelsie Horne

Chelsie Horne

Harvey Rishikof

Harvey Rishikof

David RiceDavid Rice Ed Eberle

Ed Eberle

Emily Sack

Emily Sack

Ellen Saidema

n

Ellen Saidema

n

Denise Roussea

u

Denise Roussea

u

Larry Ritchie

Larry Ritchie

Louise Teitz

Louise Teitz

Tony Simpson

Tony Simpson

Jonathon Gutoff

Jonathon Gutoff

Gail Winso

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Gail Winso

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Robert Webster

Robert Webster

Paul Vivieros

Paul Vivieros

Nancy Waggner

Nancy Waggner

Michael Yelnosky

Michael Yelnosky

David Zlotnick

David Zlotnick

InputConferences & Luncheons with University

Administration & Law School Student Groups . . .

Academic Developmen

tDean

Michael Cunningha

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Academic Developmen

tDean

Michael Cunningha

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Moot CourtMoot Court

Security Director

Bruce Bowie

Security Director

Bruce Bowie

Multicultural Law Students Association

Multicultural Law Students Association

Learning Specialist

Laura Choiniere

Learning Specialist

Laura Choiniere

The Docket(School

Newspaper)

The Docket(School

Newspaper)

SBA Officers & Class Reps

SBA Officers & Class Reps

Law Review

Law Review

Student Affairs Dean

Richard Stegman

Student Affairs Dean

Richard Stegman

Class of 2003

Class of 2003

Class of 2004

Class of 2004

AlumniAlumni

Evening Division Students

Evening Division Students

Class of 2002

Class of 2002

Academic Support Program Specific Objectives

Provide a comprehensive network of presentations, activities, tutorials, and workshops designed to stimulate learning and amplify the classroom experience.

Supplement the curriculum with a variety of opportunities to enhance learning skills and develop more efficient, effective methods of studying, comprehending, and writing in the law school environment.

Assist students with Bar Examination preparation.

Prepare Students for Law Practice

Prepare Students for Law Practice

Academic Support Program Overarching

ObjectivesDemystify Law School

Demystify Law School

Accommodate Disabled Students

Accommodate Disabled Students

Provide Schema

Provide Schema

Decrease Isolation

Decrease Isolation

Maximize Academic Potential

Maximize Academic Potential

Teach Students to Teach

Themselves

Teach Students to Teach

Themselves

Encourage Bar Exam

Preparation

Encourage Bar Exam

Preparation

Help Students Achieve Fluency in the

Language of the Law

Help Students Achieve Fluency in the

Language of the Law

Familiarize with Law School

Exam Preparation

Familiarize with Law School

Exam Preparation

…Helping Students Achieve Their Objectives

Achieve your triple objective:

• Personal best grades

• First time bar passage

• Deep, rich foundation

for the professional practice of law

ASP Program Components

. . . designed to help students develop fluency in comprehension and production, as well as specific classroom, examination, and practice-related skills.

Fall 2002 Program Components

Orientation 2002

Weekly writing sessions

Essential skills presentations

Simulated examination sessions

One-to-one mentoring

Orientation 2002

Objective

Empower the students to learn, so they may begin their law school studies as informed, confident

students from the first day of class.

Fall Semester Bridge to Exams

Weekly Writing Sessions(directed toward exam writing)

• Group instruction

• Immediate feedback

• Principles of organization

• Automatization of process

• Emphasis on analysis

This is th

e studen

ts’

introducti

on to ex

am-

answeri

ng

Essential Skills Presentations

• How to Brief Cases• Taking Notes in Class (& What to Do with Them)• Manage Your Life & Manage Your Time• Creating Super Course Summaries (Outlines)• Study Environment, Study Tips, Study Groups• Powerful Exam Answering • Flow Charts and Graphic Organizers

Your Academic Support Program announces… 

A lawyer’s time is her stock in trade.Your time – your life – is valuable.

Learn “hands-on” management skills every law student should know

– and every lawyer must know!

You can’t afford the time to miss this

presentation. I’ll show you how to make time

for law and life!

Time Management“A lawyer’s time is his stock-in-trade.”

Abraham Lincoln

Busy Lawyers Carefully Balance their Professional

Practice with . . .

Family Social Spiritual Physical

Needs & Obligations

How much do lawyers work?

8:00 – 6:00 & 7:30 – 9:30

7:00 – 6:00

8:00 – 5:00 & 7:00 – 9:00

8:00 – 5:00 & 6:30 – 10:00

8:00 – 5:00

Saturday – 9:00 – 1:30

(Example of a light work schedule)

So should busy law students.

That schedule allows for . . .Eight hours of sleep each night

Dinner with family or friends each evening

One night out or with family during the week

Friday nights out or with family

Exercise five times during the week

Saturday afternoons and evenings to relax

Sundays completely free

Light (or “working”) lunches each day

Sample One-Week Schedule  

Monday Tuesday Wed. Thursday Friday Sat. Sunday

7:00 to

9:00

9:00 to

10:00

TORTS CIVILPROC.

TORTS CIVIL PROC.

10:00 to

11:00

CRIM.PROC.

11:00 to

Noon

CONT. CONT. LEGALMETH.

Noon to

2:00

LEGALMETH.

2:00 to

3:00

PROP. CRIM.PROC.

CRIM.PROC.

PROP. CIVILPROC.

3:00 to

6:00

6:00 to 7:30

7:30 to

9:00

9:00 to

11:00

Sample One-Week ScheduleMonday Tuesday Wed. Thursday Friday Sat. Sunday

7:00 to

9:00

9:00 to

10:00

TORTS CIVILPROC.

TORTS CIVIL PROC.

10:00 to

11:00

CRIM.PROC.

11:00 to

Noon

CONT. CONT. LEGALMETH.

Noon to

2:00

LEGALMETH.

2:00 to

3:00

PROP. CRIM.PROC.

CRIM.PROC.

PROP. CIVILPROC.

3:00 to

5:00

5:00 to

6:00

6:00 to 7:30

7:30 to

9:00

9:00 to

11:00

CLASSHOURS

15

STUDYHOURS

40

OTHER PARTS

OF LIFEHOURS

57

SLEEPHOURS

56

Sample One-Week Schedule

CLASSHOURS

15

STUDYHOURS

40

OTHER PARTS

OF LIFEHOURS

57

SLEEPHOURS

56

NOTICE THE

BALANCED

LIFE

Don’t let law school overwhelm you!

 

We help students become lawyers. 

SPECIAL PRESENTATION ANNOUNCEMENT 

Creating the Exam-TargetedCourse Summary

Creating the Course SummaryIt’s like writing your own book!

How to Create Your Course Summary

Think of your outline as a completed jigsaw puzzle – put all the pieces of what you’ve learned into one cohesive picture.

How to Create Your Course Summary (cont’d.)

• Break each rule into component parts (elements)– Provide the standard, test, and any exceptions for each

element

– Define each term• (These standards, tests, exceptions, and definitions will

eventually provide shape and structure for your examination answers)

Important!

How to Create Your Course Summary (cont’d.)

WHY?

• Identify the policy reasons behind each rule, element, standard, test and exception

Professors lovepolicy!

Summarizing without policy is like learningchess moves without learning when

or why to make the moves . . .

Study Tips

Study Tips• Recognize (discover?) your most effective learning styles, and

adjust accordingly

http://silcon.com/~scmiller/multiple/multiple_choice_questions.cgi

–Visual/Verbal–Visual/Nonverbal–Tactile/Kinesthetic–Auditory/Verbal

• Try the “Learning Style Survey”

Study Tips

• “SQ3R” active reading method

–Survey (pre-reading)

–Question

–Read

–Recite

–Review

Use of Graphic Organizers

Fishbone Map

Network Tree

Spider Map

Cycle

Responding to HypotheticalsHow to answer law school essay exam

questions

Exam answer analysis

• “Interweaving” begins . . .– Ask: How do relevant facts relate to this law?

• Scrutinize the facts in relation to the law– Ask: Are any facts ambiguous as related to this law? If so

Address alternative interpretations

Congratulations! You have discovered a discussible issue . . .

Hint: Usually, Plaintiffs and

Defendants have different interpretations

Presentation Aspect

• Never discuss what the professor expressly tells you not to discuss

• Always discuss what the professor expressly tells you to discuss

Simulated Exam Sessions“Students who took practice exams in the fall session raised their GPAs by 1.5 points if they

attended at least one workshop. …Students who actually write out a dry-run test or

two are less likely to be shocked into writer’s block when they face their first real exam.”

Kristine Knaplund

UCLA Law School

Simulated Exam Sessions“The best way to prepare for your law exams . . . is to take some law exams. If you want to develop a

facility for clearly applying the law you have studied to new facts, the best way to do it is to

practice at it.”

Joseph Glannon

Suffolk University

Law School

Simulated Exam Sessions

• Two-hour Torts session

• Two-hour Contracts session

• Each repeated several times– Thursday, Friday, Saturday

• Answer guides (not answers)

• Self-critiquing guides

• Peer-critiquing encouraged

Bar Exam Preparation

Panel of Experts

Conference with Dean of Students

Bar Mentoring Program

MBE Preview Sessions (Litvin)

Essay Exam Writing Workshop

Practising (sic) Law Institute Multistate Review

RWU Professors on R.I. topics

“Program Design for Newcomers”

Thursday June 20, 2002

2002 LSAC National Academic Assistance Training Workshop

Carole A. Wastog

Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville

• Law school is affiliated with the university.

• Total law school enrollment approximately 380 students.

• One academic support professional, Director Carole Wastog, half-time. My Office

Brandeis Academic Support Program

• Justification of the Program• Summer Program• Advising• Tutoring• Resource Library• Workshops• Probation Students• Web Page

Justification of the Program

• Lower Attrition = More Money

• “Plus” for Recruitment• Happier Alums =

More Money

Summer Program

• Monday through Thursday, 6:00 – 8:30 pm for four weeks

• Legal Writing with a law professor

• First-year doctrinal course with a law professor

• Introduction to law school, studying, exams, etc. with Academic Support Director.

• (See Linda Feldman’s “Summer Program Design” on Friday at 1:30.)

Advising

• Assessment for all students (learning styles).

• Course selection

• Personal concerns affecting academic performance (with severe problems referred to professional counselor)

• Liaison between students and administration

Tutoring

• Optional attendance• Selection of tutors• Tutor training• First-year classes only• (See Kristine

Knaplund’s “Using TA s Effectively” on Friday at 1:30 pm)

Resource Library

• Various study aids available for all students to sign out free of charge

• Materials donated by students or publishing companies

• Students help themselves

• Benefits for students

Workshops

• Time/Stress Management

• Test-taking tips and study strategies

• Bar Exam (see Kamita and Nygren’s “Programs for Improving Bar Pass/Upper-Level Students) on Friday at 1:30pm

Probation Students

• Students with a cumulative GPA of below 2.0 are required to meet with Director

• Students’ responsibility to continue working with Director

Web Page

• Resource library database

• Tutoring schedule

• Workshop schedule

• Link to other important sites

• (see “ASP Outreach: Technology and Web Design on Friday at 1:30)

Questions?

• Carole A. Wastog

• 502-852-8956

[email protected]

“Program Design for Newcomers”

Thursday June 20, 2002

2002 LSAC National Academic Assistance Training Workshop

Carole A. Wastog

Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville

• Law school is affiliated with the university.

• Total law school enrollment approximately 380 students.

• One academic support professional, Director Carole Wastog, half-time.

Brandeis Academic Support Program

• Justification of the Program• Summer Program• Advising• Tutoring• Resource Library• Workshops• Probation Students• Web Page

Justification of the Program

• Lower Attrition = More Money

• “Plus” for Recruitment• Happier Alums =

More Money

Summer Program

• Monday through Thursday, 6:00 – 8:30 pm for four weeks

• Legal Writing with a law professor

• First-year doctrinal course with a law professor

• Introduction to law school, studying, exams, etc. with Academic Support Director.

• (See Linda Feldman’s “Summer Program Design” on Friday at 1:30.)

Advising

• Assessment for all students (learning styles).

• Course selection

• Personal concerns affecting academic performance (with severe problems referred to professional counselor)

• Liaison between students and administration

Tutoring

• Optional attendance• Selection of tutors• Tutoring training• First-year classes only• (See Kristine

Knaplund’s “Using TA s Effectively” on Friday at 1:30 pm)

Resource Library

• Various study aids available for all students to sign out free of charge

• Materials donated by students or publishing companies

• Students help themselves

• Benefits for students

Workshops

• Time/Stress Management

• Test-taking tips and study strategies

• Bar Exam (see Kamita and Nygren’s “Programs for Improving Bar Pass/Upper-Level Students”) on Friday at 1:30pm

Probation Students

• Students with a cumulative GPA of below 2.0 are required to meet with Director

• Students’ responsibility to continue working with Director

Web Page

• Resource library database

• Tutoring schedule

• Workshop schedule

• Link to other important sites

• (see “ASP Outreach: Technology and Web Design” on Friday at 1:30)

Questions?


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