LSAC AATW: The Future of Academic Assistance

1. LSAC AATW: The Future of Academic Assistance Louis N. Schulze, Jr. New England Law | Boston A Golden Opportunity: The Influence of Carnegie, Best Practices, and Humanizing

2. Recommendations from the Carnegie Report • Rec: Formative assessment *ASP Solution: Contextualized ASP • Rec: Make teaching explicit *ASP Solution: Co-teaching skills/ doctrine • “Self-regulated learners” *ASP Solution: “Academic Support Across the Curriculum”

3. Recommendations from Best Practices • Train students on receiving and using feedback *ASP Solution: Rory Bahadur exercise • Crystallize institutional intentionality and assist in institutional assessment *ASP Solution: ASP stats

4. Recommendations from Best Practices • Bar exam prep *ASP Solution: Graded/ for-credit bar prep courses • Summative assessments = formative assessments. *ASP Solution: Individualized exam post- mortems

5. Recommendations from the Humanizing Movement • Rec: “Do no harm.” *ASP Solution: Building community • “Teach Students, not Subjects” *ASP Solution: Individual academic counseling; Peer tutor programs (relatedness); Learning styles theory • Support autonomy/ healthy learning environment *ASP Solution: The impact of academic support on students’ psych wellness

6. The Future of ASP • A more pronounced role in the legal academy. • Provide more support for each others’ institutional position. • Erase the false dichotomies between doctrine and skills, scholarship and teaching, and scholars and teachers.