Today’s legal training and education often focuses on teaching of content instead of on learning. A teacher’s job is not to cover content; Instead teachers should cause learning: delivering people that have gained the confidence and ability to deal with new challenges in the topics to be learned. Do teachers achieve this goal?
Teachers control everything except … learning. It is only the learner who decides whether he/she actually wants to put in the required effort to learn. This summer I got acquinted with a surprisingly powerful way of teaching addressing this challenge: learner-centered teaching.
I will devote various blogs to this way of teaching legal subjects. What is learner-centered teaching and why is it so powerful? What are the main changes from regular legal teaching? And finally, how to implement learner-centered teaching?