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12 Second Draft 1 (1997)

handle is hein.journals/secnd12 and id is 1 raw text is: Context and connection. These two words capture the essence of teaching in the first year of law school. Students must develop a new context in which to understand the law because for most of them little in their background has prepared them to really think like a lawyer. As first year teachers we help them build the context by helping them connect the new to the old; we help them connect what we are teaching to what they bring to us. To do this, we must understand their frame of reference, their context, their approach to understanding. Context and connection. We must take the same concepts and the skills we use to reach our novice charges and use them to reach beyond our legal writing profession to the larger law teaching community and to the legal community in general. To be truly effective within our respective schools we need to understand the world view of the other faculty and we need to see how to connect what we do to that context. If we really want our doctrinal colleagues, and even our clinical colleagues, to understand what we are about, we need to understand it ourselves and we need to understand what they think they are about, and we then need to help them make the connections between their view of law and law teaching and ours. Context and connection. As we reach outside of our maturing group, we must be bold enough to come to understand the context in which we work so that we can work the needed changes in legal education. We need to impart the gifts and knowledge we possess to others, but to do so we must use those same gifts and knowledge to learn what the target group knows, what their context is, so that we can tailor our individual and collective efforts to more effectively connect to their contextual understanding, and then to change it. (; _'9 / k:: '04vw Volume 12, No. 1 - November 1997 Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute

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