“So, when is the other shoe going to drop?” Using Five-Minute Feedback Forms to Help Students in First-Year Legal Writing Courses
“2Ls tell me this class will end up pretty heavy, but I feel good so far. So, when is the other shoe going to drop?”
Grade Expectations: Helping Students Process Feedback Better
Most students are unpleasantly surprised by their first set of law school grades. After working diligently and expecting whatever worked well in undergraduate classes to work in law school classes, many well-intentioned students are disappointed that they did not get an A on their first legal writing assignment. I was. I came to law school expecting to receive glowing praise on my writing assignments. After all, I had a lot of undergraduate academic writing experience.
Before the Final Draft: Oral Argument as a Student-Centered Feedback Tool
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Before the Final Draft: Oral Argument as a Student-Centered Feedback Tool
Stephanie Juliano
Assistant Professor of Practice
Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Published: November 2023
From Feedback Loops to Feedback Literacy: Harnessing Cutting-Edge Feedback Scholarship for Legal Writing Pedagogy
Are you “feedback literate”? Are your students? Do you design and deliver your legal writing course to hone your students’ feedback literacy and maximize the power of your feedback?