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Extractions: (reprinted from Citizenship News - Spring 1990) WHAT IS LRE – The term law-related education (LRE) may be a misnomer. When asked whether their school teaches LRE, many teachers say "Yes, we teach a law course!" or "Yes, we have a mock trial team!" But, the truth is that LRE is not a specific course. Rather it is ideas and ideals taught within other disciplines. In other words, it is taught in some form in nearly all classes. In addition, national research projects have indicated that law-related education programs, when properly conducted, reduce tendencies toward delinquent behavior and improve a range of attitudes to responsible citizenship. Researchers have shown That successful students of LRE programs are less likely to associate with delinquent peers or use violence as a means of resolving conflict. LRE is a process in which one of its major goals is to move students toward being effective, responsible citizens in a pluralistic, democratic society. Specifically, it moves away from perceiving law as restrictive, punitive, and beyond their understanding and moves them toward perceiving law as promotive, facilitative, comprehensible, and Changeable. It moves students away from feeling powerless before the law and other socio-civic institutions and toward seeing themselves as having potential to control and contribute to the social order.
School District Of Philadelphia - Lesson Plans For Teachers lesson plans for teachers on the World Wide Web if a Kindergarten, Social StudiesGeography Government Civics Government law mock trials History Ancient http://www.philsch.k12.pa.us/teachers/lessons.htm
The Vermont Bar Association Innovative Curricula law Related units, lesson plans, and activities CollaborationAdopta-lawyer Program; law Day. School-to mock trials; Negotiation Competition. http://www.vtbar.org/article/articleview/1700/1/76/
LRE Week Activities for additional ideas and lesson plans which may administrators, recorders, clerks,law enforcers, probation include Essays, speeches, mock trials, posters, or http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Divisions/cited/lre/week.htm
Extractions: How to Observe National Organizations School Activities Community Activities ... Origin of This year, LRE Week will be celebrated Sunday April 29 thru Saturday May 6, 2000 . Below, you will find ideas which can be used for celebrating this important week. You can contact Anna Boling for additional ideas and lesson plans which may be used as well. W hy Observe LRE Week? Schools and classes can celebrate LRE Week themselves just as lawyers can honor Law Day on their own, but meaning will be added to the observance by getting together. Joint activities can be initiated by teachers, principals, or curriculum coordinators, with phone calls to courts and/or local bar associations, attorneys, attorney friends, law enforcers. Bar associations, attorneys, and law enforcers can contact educators with offers to assist in planning and presenting LRE Week/Law Day activities.
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Extractions: OUSD Urban Dreams Lesson Plans Insanity Defense Pleas Lesson Plan Day One Introduce the unit by clarifying what an insanity plea is and how they work within the legal system. Stimulate student interest by using the Anticipation Guide before and during the reading. The possible steps are to have students: make their individual predictions, meet in small groups to discuss their logic, silent read to seek evidence for their interpretations from the article http://www.psych.org/public_info/insanity.cfm meet back in their small groups to support or change their predictions, and to discuss their findings in a large group or the entire class. Next, provide students with the law as it currently reads. California uses …"a variation of the 160-year-old McNaughton rule from England. That law requires the defense to prove—by a preponderance of the evidence—that a defendant, because of mental illness, either did not understand what he or she was doing when a crime was committed or that he or she did not know that the actions were wrong." (Newsbank, "Insanity Defense, ‘An Uphill Fight…..,’" by Patrick Pemberton). If you were a defense lawyer, how might you prove that your client did not understand that what he or she did was a crime at the time or that he or she did not know that the actions were wrong?
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Extractions: LINKS TO SOCIAL STUDIES SITES http://www.aaiusa.org Arab American Institute Foundation's site. Provides a wealth of information on Arab culture. www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/48states.html U.S. history maps from 1650 to present using GIS and animation. www.americanhistory.si.edu The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History web site. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html The world at night from satellite. www.ccle.fourh.umn.edu Free downloads of mock trials for grades K-12, a dynamic way to teach law to your students. www.census.gov U.S. Census Bureau site packed with maps and teaching ideas. www.civilwar.org Facilitates teaching about the Civil War. www.cuneiform.org Designed for world history and culture classes, this site provides a cuneiform alphabet, some vocabulary, one of Hammurabi's codes, cuneiform math, and ancient glass-making recipe, information on daily life in Assyria, some grammar, and royal archives related to the Old Testament of the Bible. www.eduplace.com/ss/ssmaps/index.html Free outline maps. www.euratlas.com/summary.htm
Law Related Education Center for Research Development in lawRelated Education.) They have a very largenumber of lesson plans related to law and government including mock trials. http://www.theteacherspot.com/lre.html
Extractions: I did a workshop a couple of years ago titled "Murder and Mayhem in the Classroom." It dealt with "Mysteries" as an integrated theme. During my research for this presentation I learned that there is a plethora of materials out there for a field called Law-Related Education. Two other good resources are the Center for Civic Education, 5416 Douglas Fir Rd. Calabassas, CA 91302 and the Constitutional Rights Foundation , 601 Kingsley Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90005. Most states have Law-Related Education groups and free materials. Check with the local bar association and they should be able to help you. I enjoy using a simple book titled, Everyday Law for Young Citizens, published by Good Apple. After introducing the basic principles of law the book takes a case study approach to introduce various laws to children. The case study sets the stage with a realistic scenario. This is followed by Whats Your Opinion and then what the law says to provide the legal point of view of the case. The What If? poses variations on the theme calling for more informed student opinion. This is followed by an activity section with optional writing, discussion, and role-play possibilities and spin-offs of the case. Examples of case studies in the book include:
[CSLS] Programs: Street Law - Introduction also uses 'edutainment' through mock trials, roleplays already running DFA/StreetLaw programmes at educational materials and their inclusion in lesson plans. http://www.csls.org.za/slintro.html
Extractions: Street Law Launched in 1986, Street Law has spread throughout South Africa and is now offered at 16 universities countrywide. It has grown into a prominent human rights and legal education programme for all South Africans, primarily the youth. Designed to introduce the law and human rights to people of all levels of education, it provides a practical understanding of the law, the legal system and the constitution to all learners. Street Law also contributes towards the consolidation of a democratic society through the cultivation of a culture of rights and responsibilities as well as promoting respect for the Rule of Law. Objectives to make people aware of their legal rights and how they can use the legal system to protect them; to make people understand their constitutional rights and how they can access the various institutions created under the constitution to assert their rights; to help people to tolerate opposing points of view; to encourage people to use alternative ways of resolving conflict; and to improve our understanding of the principles and processes of democracy.
Mock Trial Remember to keep within the law. Information on mock trials. Information for mocktrials in the classroom. Information for more lesson plans on pollution. http://www.education.mcgill.ca/433-382a/g04/g04.html
Extractions: Mock Trial Date : Oct.29,1997. Background Rationale: This lesson is based on the month of May featured in the 1998 New Internationalist World Calendar and our colleagues have also developed lesson plans based on the calendar. The month of May includes a picturesque setting of clouds atop the Haraz mountains in Yemen. New Internationalist suggests that the problems of pollution are a distant reality for the people of Yemen and alludes to a picture featuring smog-covered Los Angeles. We have decided to address the problem of pollution in our lesson by looking at those images and relating them to a local problem. As a class we will look at current events and specifically the recent discovery of a toxic active landfill found in LaSalle, Montreal, Quebec. ( this can be replaced by an issue in your neighborhood ) The children will work in groups gathering information on a perspective of the issue and participate in a mock trial. Concept Descriptors : Environment, pollution, landfills, democracy Grade level Lesson Duration : 45 minutes Ministere de l'education de Quebec (MEQ) Objectives General : To develop awareness of the democratic system in his society.
Extractions: legal home search jobs post resume employer profiles ... National Native American Bar Assoc. IMDiversity honors the following firms, agencies and employers comitted to recruiting a diverse work- force and to promoting justice, fairness and equal opportunity: (Firm names go here) E-mail: Legal Industry Article Its Friday afternoon, and BLSA members from the University of St. Thomas School of Law make their way through the skyway system to Inter District Downtown School (located in the heart of downtown Minneapolis, MN). They ride the elevator up to the 4th floor and arrive at Ms. Belvins eleventh grade Urban Studies classroom. They have reached their destination, and they are ready to fulfill their ongoing obligation to teach these students their legal rights and responsibilities. It is a ritual most of them have repeated on other Fridays before, however, today is different. There are first year BLSA members joining the group, and they are green. It is also the beginning of a new semester and they must introduce themselves to a new group of students, and a new addition, the student teacher, Jay Linnell. You can tell its an awkward moment for some, but they line up in front of the students, and one by one tell their personal stories of how they were once just like these high school students and the very different paths they each took to reach law school.
Civics And Law Related Education Conference is the coauthor of two mock trials that link DC and throughout Illinois for StreetLaw, the Constitutional lesson plans from the life of Abraham Lincoln will http://cles.uis.edu/Civic Conference/workshops.htm
Extractions: Workshops Friday Workshop Conflict Resolution Workshop and Practice Sessions in the Workshop sessions - Vernessa Gipson has been the ISBE EBD Central Region Coordinator for the past 6 years and the Educational Advisor for DCFS in the Central Region for the last three years. Her primary responsibilities involve providing technical assistance to families, schools and agencies regarding the educational needs and community supports for youth with emotional and behavioral disabilities and youth in foster care and residential placements. Topper Steinman is an educator from Champaign, Illinois with 30 years experience as a teacher, counselor, and educational consultant. Topper has presented numerous workshops and seminars throughout the country with educator, parent, youth, community and business groups. His topics cover a wide variety of interest areas with efforts aimed at bridging the adult/youth gap while creating a healthy sense of self and others. Topper's blend of humor and ideas with a "reality" basis help to give audiences a practical yet hopeful look at today's schools, families, businesses and communities.
2002 Illinois State Bar Association High School Mock Trial Classroom, Local History, Cultural Diversity, mock trials, Infusing Civics has openeda consumer law web portal It has links to lesson plans, books, maps and http://www.illinoisbar.org/Sections/lrenews.html
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Civic Education Is Best Taught By Doing, NICEL Director Says If you make it theoretical law people's eyes glaze that involves debates, role playing,mock trials, in other It also contains lesson plans in civic education http://www.civnet.org/civitas/africa/obrien2.htm
Extractions: USIA Staff Writer WASHINGTON The role of the citizen in a democracy is something "best learned by doing," says Ed O'Brien, co-founder of the National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law (NICEL), a leading U.S. non- governmental organization (NGO) that teaches law, human rights and democratic values worldwide. O'Brien, who once taught law at Georgetown University, is also innovator of the famous "Street Law" program, which has law students learn by going out into communities to teach and advise people about their legal rights. Now, he is on the advisory board of CIVITAS, the civic education consortium begun in Prague two years ago which is holding a May 11-14 meeting in South Africa to discuss civic education on the continent. The four-day gathering in Pretoria is sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) in conjunction with the Institute for Democracy in South Africa. The USIA also will sponsor several regional workshops within the next year. Before leaving for Pretoria, O'Brien told a USIA reporter May 6 that "civic education must include law, democracy and human rights" in order to be effective in newly emerging nations.
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Extractions: NETN Law can be one of the most interesting and motivating subjects taught in the high school and early college/university curriculums. Besides serving as a step toward a host of associated Law careers, and utilization in most other careers, the basics of Law applies to every person regardless of position or status in a society. The concepts of Law optimizes articulation in the total curriculum. Taught within the purview of right and wrong , a teacher can easily take advantage of the competitive nature of individuals and foster a rapid and high degree of learning The students most definitely develop problem solving and reasoning techniques as well as become more alert and educated of the world around them. NETN To educate, is to provide with knowledge, skills, or training through formal schooling or other means of teaching with a particular purpose, usually to satisfy the needs and requirements of the society in which we live. CONTENT STANDARDS There has been a long standing effort to develop objectives to teach a curriculum that expects something to be desired from students. This concept has evolved into a "Content Standard" so that the curriculum dictates something absolutely required rather than "desired."
State Bar Of Georgia from the mock trial office, including lesson plans for guiding Evidence, modifiedand simplified for application to mock trials. A law Academy will be held in http://www.gabar.org/mtoverview.asp
Extractions: 104 Marietta St. NW, Suite 100, Atlanta, GA 30303 WHAT IS A MOCK TRIAL COMPETITION? A mock trial is much like a real court trial. Team members, "attorneys," and "witnesses," prepare a case for trial before a judge. All competing teams prepare the same case. Local teams in a region compete, the regional winners then vie for the state championship, and the state champion has the option of competing nationally. WHAT DOES A TEAM DO?
Arotella Videos, CD ROM and Computer software , lesson plans and activities made law RelatedEducation. to develop analytical and public speaking through mock trials. http://www.ninetysix.k12.sc.us/highschool/arotella.htm
Extractions: Academic Plans 2002/2003 School year Class: Government Student requirements: The above South Carolina Standard requires the student to master 53 standards in less than 45 days. Some of these standards, it can be argued are opinion not fact. A critical student responsibility is KEEP UP WITH THE READINGS . Students do not have regular written homework. They must keep up with the text as well as supplemental readings from media news sources . Students are required to complete a minimum of 10 Article Summaries. They have a nine week window in which to turn in this assignment AT A RATE OF NO MORE THAN 2 PER WEEK. The correct form for this assignment is available below. The Teacher will often take a position contrary to the class in order to sharpen their higher level thinking skills. If the Teacher finds himself swaying opinion he will most often switch sides. The goal is that the Student learn to separate fact from opinion, find bias in news articles, and to learn to logically think a position through. Students are encouraged to keep a notebook . Most students will find a notebook a necessity.
Social Studies Lesson Plans (gr. 1112) Through participation in mock trials and analysis of the activity Thislesson plan is designed for the student to become How a Bill Becomes a law (gr http://www.theteachersguide.com/socialstudies.html
New Jersey State Bar Foundation - Students' Corner Teachers and lawyers designed the lesson plans, which are easy and fun to mock trials Grades K - 12. groups throughout the state on numerous areas of the law. http://www.njsbf.org/njsbf/student/teachers/teachers.cfm
Justice Teaching Institute and the law; mediation; trial practice/mock trials; the use of by lawyers about communityresources; law and Media of the Institute of lesson plans that have http://www.jud11.flcourts.org/community_initiatives/justiceteaching.htm
Extractions: I The Eleventh Judicial Circuit's of Florida's Justice Teaching Institute, originally patterned after the Statewide Justice Teaching Institute which is sponsored by the Supreme Court of Florida, is believed to be the first of its kind in the country to be developed at the local level. Its main objectives include: What grade levels and schools does the Justice Teaching Institute (JTI) serve? Do public school teachers receive in-service credit for participating in the JTI? Can private school teachers participate in the JTI? ... Who do I contact for further information about the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida's Justice Teaching Institute?
