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• The Classroom Experience
  • Examples
  • Goals
  • Methods
    • Case Method
    • Clinical Education - in class with clients
    • Discussion
    • Lecture
    • Socratic / Case Method
    • Specific Problems

Methods

Classroom Teaching Methods

There are several methods of law teaching. These include:

• Lecture
• The Socratic/Case Method
• Specific problems
• Discussion
• Clinical Education- in class and with clients

Your professors will likely use one or more of these methods to try to accomplish his or her classroom teaching goals

By clicking on the links in the list above, you will see a discussion of each of these methods of teaching, as well as how your professors may use these methods to teach you content and skills.