Vernellia R. Randall All Rights Reserved. However, to be an effective teacher you should not focus on any one method to the exclusion or minimization of the others. Walter Dick, et. A number of teaching methods and activities can be used to help students learn.
Students learn both passively and actively.
However, research shows that students learn more material, learn more quickly, understand more of what they learn and are able to utilize the skills more effectively if they learn using active, rather than passive methods. Given the nature of many law school classrooms, most of the teaching is done involving only a small percentage of the students in any given class period. That is more than unfortunate, given what P.J. Phillips tells us about student learning. As a law teacher, you will need to talk and you will need to use methods that push individual students. But you will need to guard against too much talking by yourself.