After his enlightening keynote session on using experiential learning in judicial education, Dr. David Kolb answered questions and exchanged ideas with conference participants in a break-out session.
Category: 2012 Conference Recap
NASJE Midwest Regional Meeting 2012
NASJE’s Midwest Region held a regional meeting at the NASJE 2011 Conference.
NASJE Southeast Regional Meeting 2012
NASJE’s Southeast Region held a regional meeting at the NASJE 2011 Conference.
Conference 2012: A Team Approach to Caseflow Management
Phil Knox, Court Administrator from Maricopa County Superior Court, presented a primer on caseflow management to about 14 NASJE members during the conference in Boston.
Conference 2012: Workshop Focuses on Determining Educational Needs
Assessing Needs: The Basics of Processes and Models was based on part five of the NASJE Curriculum Designs. The two-part session was taught by William Brunson of The National Judicial College and Lee Ann Barnhardt of North Dakota.
Conference 2012: Lessons Learned From Teaching Fairness
This breakout session was an opportunity for faculty and participants to share lessons learned from teaching fairness to judicial officers and court staff. Faculty discussed overcoming resistance to fairness topics by acknowledging it, integrating the topic into substantive courses rather…
Conference 2012: State Directors Look at Trends Impacting Judicial Education
Educators from six states and the District of Columbia took part in the third forum for State Directors of Judicial Branch Education Offices at the NASJE Annual Conference in Boston, MA . The forum was facilitated by Jennifer Juhler of…
Conference 2012: Short Films with Big Impact
In the session “Good Things Come in Small Packages: Using Short Films to Teach Diversity, Access, and Fairness Issues,” a wide range of short films were shown to illustrate the educational power that can be packed into brief recordings. NASJE…
Conference 2012: Effective Distance Learning Takes Time, Planning
“Quick and Easy” and distance learning do not always go so well together, but Joseph Sawyer of the National Judicial College did shed some light on different approaches to electronic learning in the session How to Make Technology Work for…
Conference 2012: Educators Experiment with Metaphor during Closing Plenary
A Spark of Inspiration for Improving Your Skills utilized photographs, comic strips, animals, and toys as an interactive way to activate the creative and spontaneous side of the participants.
Conference 2012: Experiential Opportunity: Neuroscience, PTSD and the Brain
An intrepid group of NASJE members journeyed across Boston by subway for this experiential learning opportunity.
Conference 2012: Instructional Design: The Backbone of Effective Education
[singlepic id=520 w=320 h=240 float=right]If you walked into this class a few minutes late, you would have found participants wandering around the room talking to each other, and you might have wondered when class would begin – but participants were…