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Two resources for non-read/write predominant learners

Posted on November 12, 2008
As students are gearing up for finals, I have received a number of requests, and corresponding reviews, of help for students who are not predominantly read/write learners. Here are a couple of my suggestions for these students that have received...

We Can?t Multi-Task

Posted on November 07, 2008
I know some people will disagree with me, but we can?t multi-task. I don?t mean we can?t walk and chew bubble gum, but I do mean we can?t email friends, talk on the phone, and write a blog entry. However,...

Helping Students Manage Stress

Posted on November 05, 2008
Exams start at our law school immediately after the Thanksgiving Break this year. With just four weeks left, the students are becoming more stressed each day. Those who have been distributing their learning throughout the entire semester are holding up...

Aesop's Fables for Law Students III

Posted on November 04, 2008
The final re-written Aesop's fable is probably less well-known than the other two that I chose. The original fable is about a cat that has only one method of defense in danger and a fox that prides itself on its...

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Reaching Out To Doctrinal Faculty

Posted on November 03, 2008
With so many new folks joining our ranks, I wanted to add a suggestion about reaching out to doctrinal faculty. This is one of the more difficult parts of the job for many new Academic Success professionals. For younger ASP...

6th annual New York Area Academic Support Workshop at Brooklyn Law School Nov. 14

Posted on November 03, 2008
Brooklyn Law School and New York Law School will host the 6th annual New York Area Academic Support Workshop at Brooklyn Law School on Friday, November 14, 2008. As usual, this will be a small and rather intensive gathering of...

Aesop's Fables for Law Students II

Posted on October 31, 2008
I have included below the second of the Aesop's fables that I wrote for my law students in my weekly tips e-mail. Most of you will probably remember the original version of this well-known fable. The Tortoise and the Hare:...

"The Law" and Academic Skills

Posted on October 30, 2008
One of the conundrums many ASP professionals run into is the use of ?the law? to teach skills. Why is this a conundrum? If more than one professor teaches the same subjects (like two Torts classes taught by two different...

2005 Post Revisited

Posted on October 28, 2008
Dennis Tonsing e-mailed me with a revised link for a column that he had published in April 2005 regarding non-traditional students. In fixing the link, I read through the journal entry from Alice Marie Beard that was referenced. Two thoughts...

Aesop's Fables for Law Students I

Posted on October 27, 2008
As I was contemplating some common student problems recently, I realized that Aesop had covered similar behaviors in some of his fables. So, I rewrote some fables to apply to law students and distributed them through my weekly study tips...

Real-World Examples: Heller and Dissent Among Justices

Posted on October 23, 2008
I always love it when I see the skills and concepts I try to teach being applied in the real world. One of the key messages I try to impart with 1L?s is the obligation to form an opinion about...

Falling into temptation

Posted on October 21, 2008
It is the time of the semester when students are surrounded by temptations. Of course, temptations were present earlier in the semester. But now, temptations have greater negative consequences: lost time in exam studying; greater stress about tasks unfinished; greater...

More on evaluating research on new programs

Posted on October 20, 2008
Based on some of the feedback I have received about my post from Wednesday, I am expanding my discussion about why we need to consider our students when we are implementing new programs based on research. This is an area...

Keeping up with the research

Posted on October 15, 2008
This is a supplement to Amy's post on the bibliography of bar exam articles. I wanted to add my two cents about the incredible value of the article, and about keeping up with th research in the area of bar...

Annotated Bibliography of Bar Exam Articles

Posted on October 14, 2008
On April 7, 2008, I reported on an annotated bibliography on bar examination articles. I am including the text of the original post below in case you are new to the blog and missed this item. I am now attaching...

The Processing Learning Styles Part III

Posted on October 13, 2008
In this final segment in the series, I want to describe the differences between active and reflective learners. In addition, I shall give some practical ways in which these two types of learners can better use their particular styles in...

Notes from the Bar Pass Conference

Posted on October 10, 2008
Bar Passage Training Lesson: More Experiential Learning By Hillary Burgess Hillary.burgess [at] hofstra [dot] edu I am on my way back from the LSAC Academic Support Bar Passage Programs Topical Workshop. I cannot believe how much I learned, especially about...

The Processing Learning Styles Part II

Posted on October 09, 2008
My prior column focused on four of the processing styles (global, sequential, intuitive, and sensing) and three categories of learners based on the combinations of those four styles: "Top-Down" (Global-Intuitive), "Bottom-Up" (Sequential-Sensing), and "Middle-Out" (Global-Sensing or Sequential-Intuitive)...

The Processing Learning Styles Part I

Posted on October 08, 2008
A great deal has been written about the absorption learning styles: Visual, Verbal, Oral, Aural, Kinesthetic, Tactile. However, the discussions often overlook the processing styles: Global, Sequential, Intuitive, Sensing, Active, and Reflective. These styles are critical to how students process...

High Anxiety

Posted on October 06, 2008
If I were to put a label on this semester, it would be high anxiety. As an Academic Success professional, I feel fairly insulated from the turbulence of the outside (corporate) world. After all, we have all heard (or seen)...

Accommodations for ADD/ADHD and LD Students

Posted on October 03, 2008
Most of us work with multiple students who have been diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, or learning disabilities of some type. In fact, with each new 1L class, our Student Disability Services usually sends letters of accommodations for at least 5...

Revised Job Description for UNLV ASP Position

Posted on October 03, 2008
An incorrect URL link was given in the final paragraph of this posting instead of the correct e-mail address. The correction is included in the revised job description below: The University of Nevada Las Vegas (Boyd School of Law) is...

Germ Warfare

Posted on October 02, 2008
The law school has been attacked by the first onslaught of cold and flu season. I have been tempted to replace the large candy bucket in the office with an enormous vat of steaming chicken soup. I am constantly dispensing...

Director of Academic Support Position at UNLV

Posted on October 01, 2008
The University of Nevada Las Vegas (Boyd School of Law) is hiring a new Director of Academic Support. Nancy Rapoport is the appointments chair and has information on her blog at Nancy Rapoport's Blogspot on UNLV Hiring about the selection...

Bar Exam Success

Posted on September 29, 2008
Steven Friedland, a law professor at Elon School of Law, and Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, an attorney and investigative journalist who now works at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, have written a recent Thomson/West publication...

Update on regional differences

Posted on September 25, 2008
I wrote a while back (maybe March?) about my irritation with the hyper-focus on generational differences (The Millenials v. Gen X v. Boomers) and the under-focus on how other differences, such as region, shape classes of law students. I received...

My Faculty, My Students, Myself: Thoughts on Being New to Academic Support

Posted on September 24, 2008
Corie Rosen Director of Academic Support, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University The recent loss of novelist and professor David Foster Wallace was both tragic and eye opening. Wallace was not only a renowned thinker and...

Taking Stock

Posted on September 23, 2008
Most law schools are in their fifth or sixth week of classes at this point. As I talk to students, I find that many of them are in pure survival mode. They are hurtling through the semester without any conscious...

Report from the Fall 2008 LSAC Bar Preparation Workshop

Posted on September 22, 2008
I have just returned from the Fall 2008 LSAC Bar Preparation Workshop held at Southwestern Law School in L.A, California. It was a wonderful affair, and HUGE thanks go out to Paul Bateman from Southwestern, Kent Lollis from LSAC, and...

Welcome ASP'er at U of Akron

Posted on September 16, 2008
We are delighted to welcome Katherine Silver Kelly as the Interim Director of Academic Success Programs at the University of Akron School of Law. Your new colleagues in ASP will be more than happy to assist you in any way...

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