Education Law

Class Resources

So, within the past couple days I have received a couple requests from folks about ideas for their school law courses and I have been helping my TA gear up for teaching pre-service teachers about the law. During this time, I was reminded what a good resource the blog is for subject-specific content. I've been building the blog archive now for around a 1/2 a decade, so there are a lot of stories, videos, images, etc. that might be useful in your courses (they certainly are in mine) for generating interest and discussions on these legal topics. I think we school law profs. need to keep in mind that the law is boring to most people and that we really need to liven it up for maximum learning.  

The best way to find these is to use my category archive (under the blog menu above) or the search tool on the right. In fact, since I frequently mention where the event occurred, one good search strategy might be to search for your state and see what comes up. There are over 700 posts in the archive ... I promise there is something you can use in your course if you do a little searching. 

Some archived stuff I have used recently in my courses include:

1. This crazy church/state cross burning teacher from Ohio (use with religion).
2. The continuing insanity of duct-taping students to chairs or putting kids in cages (use with torts). 
3. Pink dyed hair and student speech (use with student expression). 
4. A Kentucky pat-down over $5 and search review (use with search & seizure). 
5. Great This American Life clip on video cameras in schools (use with search & seizure).
6. For those early-childhood folks - if you want to gross them out (use with teacher/student discipline). 
7. If you want to scare teachers away from abusing students (use with harassment). 

Anyway, that's just a taste of what lies waiting for you in the archives - just a heads up. Have a good weekend everyone. 

Full post as published by Edjurist on August 27, 2010 (boomark / email).