Monday, February 06, 2006

In Lieu of Listening in Class...A Play

Setting: anonymous classroom in Law School X.
Proctor: Do not turn over your exams until I give the signal.
SmartAss 3L: Why do we have to go through this crap every semester? This does nothing to prepare us for practicing law.
Protor: Well, ______, when you figure out a better way to test the material, you let me know.
SA3L: Hmmm. How about we break into pairs and present these fact patterns as if they were actual cases. Assign one student in each pair as D.A. and one as P.D.. Have them argue both sides using the material to present their case and battle it out. No winners or losers. Just base the grades on how well they apply the material. Give them the fact patterns/case files about 30 minutes in advance, cuz that's gonna happen in the real world all the time. 20 minutes or so. Have two teams going at once, cuz we are already sucking up 2 rooms at once with the laptop/writers thing. How's that?
Proctor: No talking during exams. Turn your papers over and begin.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

props.
-Dude

Anonymous said...

love it man!