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NASJE Curriculum Design - Governance Entry Level - Participant Activities

1.1.3.5 Examining Decisions for Necessary Strategies and Skills (2pg/.06MB)

National Association of State Judicial Educators (NASJE)

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Governance Entry-Level Faculty Resource Examining Decisions for Necessary Strategies and Skills

Description:

1.1.3.5 Examining Decisions for Necessary Strategies and Skills

Purpose of activity

This activity is dependent on the scenarios used in the previous activity, 1.1.3.4, Examining Roles and Responsibilities of Judicial Branch Educators, pg. 61, which presented a series of scenarios or dilemmas.  This activity engages judicial branch educators in revisiting the actions they decided to take in those scenarios and determining the strategies and skills necessary both to make a decision and to act on that decision in a positive way, limiting damage to relationships and structures.  Although this activity applies more directly to the first set of scenarios (A – F), it could also be used in analyzing decisions in the second set (G – J).  This activity will not encompass the full array of strategies and skills necessary to implement and maintain shared governance responsibilities for judicial branch education; it will, however, generate discussion and reveal the subtleties and variety of many strategies and skills.

Use of activity

This activity would be effective immediately after discussing decisions made in the scenarios in the previous activity.  Faculty may choose to integrate these two activities by having each small group discuss a scenario and then analyze it for necessary strategies and skills, or faculty may complete the previous activity and then engage small groups of learners in this activity based on the scenario they used in the previous activity.  Faculty may refer learners to 1.1.2.3 Judicial Branch Educator Roles, pg. 38, for ideas on answers to part of this activity.

This is a small group activity

Relevant Learning Objective

1. Describe the overarching strategies and skills necessary for judicial branch educators to effectively implement and maintain shared governance responsibilities between administrative and stakeholder groups.

The Basics of Governance in Judicial Branch Education

Analyzing Decisions for Necessary Strategies and Skills

Consider your decision on a scenario and answer the following questions:

Circle the letter of the scenario are you using: A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J

What were the major or key issues or dilemmas in the scenario?

What were the main considerations you applied to making a decision?

How would you define your strategy in making the decision?

How would you describe a viable strategy for implementing the decision?

List the skills and/or abilities necessary to make the decision:

List the skills and/or abilities necessary to implement it effectively: