Developing Professional Skills

Ric Simmons

  • Imprint: West Academic Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781685615321
  • Publication Date: Jan 2024
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Developing Professional Skills

Carla Spivack

The Trusts & Estates book in the Developing Professional Skills series facilitates the incorporation of a wide range of practical legal skills into the trusts and estates classroom to promote student learning. Each assignment draws upon key doctrinal concepts, such as donative freedom, intestacy, will execution and revocation, construction, trust creation & revocation, fiduciary duties, prenuptial agreements, will substitutes, charitable giving, and guardianship. It also seeks to give students a footing in some of the more basic tasks an estate planning attorney would perform, such as explaining succession law to non-lawyers, planning to avoid will contests, locating intestate heirs, etc. Students have the opportunity to develop and refine the following skills in the context of estate planning:Composing legal letters and professional emailsWriting court petitions, interrogatories, and charitable gift agreementsDeveloping counseling plans and best practices guidanceConducting a negotiationEngaging in client counselingCreating community presentationsSecondarily, this book also incorporates social issues that are inherent in the study and practice of estate planning. These issues revolve around the role of estate planning and succession law in perpetuating wealth inequality. Many of the assignments touch upon these issues; it is of course up to the professor how much to draw them out and emphasize them. Each assignment is complete and effective even without emphasis on these issues. However, they add a worthwhile dimension to the book.

  • Imprint: West Academic Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781636594798
  • Publication Date: Oct 2022
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Implementing a Virtual Coaching Model for Teacher Professional Development

Suzanne Myers

Over the last two decades, the use of instructional coaching has surged in PreK-12 education settings as one way to support the implementation of instructional best practices in a wide range of disciplines. However, not all educators have access to high-quality instructional coaching due to multiple factors, which typically include isolation (geographic and otherwise), limited financial support, and limited professional development time. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic brought long periods of quarantine and social isolation where educators were scrambling to teach in an unfamiliar medium, and virtual coaching was the only way they could receive professional development. For these reasons, many districts are exploring virtual solutions to provide professional development and coaching support. Implementing a Virtual Coaching Model for Teacher Professional Development addresses how to effectively implement virtual coaching in the field of education and discusses how technology can provide more equitable access to job-embedded and personalized professional learning (through virtual coaching) across all educational institutions. Covering a wide range of topics such as sustainable learning and cognitive coaching, it is ideal for professional development professionals, corporate trainers, education leaders, principals, teachers, researchers, practitioners, academicians, and students.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781799875222
  • Publication Date: Jan 2022
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Instructional Coaching

Suzanne Rose

  • Format: Spiral bound
  • ISBN: 9781792456350
  • Publication Date: Dec 2020
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Antiracist Professional Development for In-Service Teachers

Jenice L. View

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781799856498
  • Publication Date: Jun 2020
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Collaborative Lesson Study

Vicki S. Collet

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780807763070
  • Publication Date: Sep 2019
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Promoting Intentional Teaching

Julie K. Kidd

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781598579673
  • Publication Date: Oct 2018
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Literacy Skill Development for Library Science Professionals

S. Thanuskodi

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781522571254
  • Publication Date: Aug 2018
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Developing Professional Skills Business Associations

Robert J. Rhee

Incorporating skills training into a traditional Business Associations course is challenging. This creative and original book provides thirteen independent exercises designed to develop student skills in legal drafting, client interviewing and counseling, negotiation, and advocacy. Each exercise is based on fundamental legal rules and doctrines so that the book can be used on its own or as a supplemental text with any doctrinal casebook. Students are required to spend a manageable one to two hours on such tasks as outlining discussion points for major meetings and counseling, drafting advisory letters to clients, crafting a demand letter to a board of directors, negotiating indemnification provisions, drafting a certificate of incorporation and an operating agreement based on the clients' stated objectives, and developing strategies to manage business contracting and corporate client communications. Each exercise contains a work product template that the student must complete for assessment purposes.

  • Imprint: West Academic Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781683280439
  • Publication Date: Feb 2018
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Developing Professional Skills

Martha Ertman

This creative and original book is designed for use in three ways. It can supplement a traditional Secured Transactions text with skills training exercises, be used as the text for a 1-credit drafting workshop added on to a doctrinal commercial law class, and also as the text for a 2 or 3 credit contract drafting course. The ten user-friendly exercises are modular so that professors can assign one or two exercises a semester to gradually make their classes comply with ABA requirements for transition to practice credits as well as formative and summative assessments. Students work in teams to negotiate and draft core documents that memorialize a secured transaction, starting with a promissory note, and continuing on to a financing statement and security agreement. In a 2 or 3-credit drafting course or workshop, students could also negotiate and draft a personal guaranty, perfect a security interest in a delivery truck and fixtures, balance ethical requirements of client confidentiality with truthfulness, and compile a portfolio of the documents with a cover letter to the client. Each exercise requires only fifteen to thirty minutes of class time and one to two hours on homework assignments that have students identify the anatomical parts of a contract (preamble, recitals, words of agreement, etc.), fill in a template promissory note with the parties' names, principal amount, interest rate, and signature blocks, and edit a template security agreement to conform it to the terms of the students' negotiated agreement. Each drafting exercise contains a template that students edit, and the text includes instructions for negotiation exercises.

  • Imprint: West Academic Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781683283683
  • Publication Date: Dec 2017
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Developing Professional Skills

Paula Schaefer

The Professional Responsibility book in our Developing Professional Skills series—used as a supplement to your regular text book—makes it easy to integrate skills training into the professional responsibility classroom. The book contains ten exercises designed to develop practice skills of legal drafting, client interviewing and counseling, negotiation, and advocacy. Students spend a manageable one to two hours on tasks including:counseling a law student about bar admission;negotiating a sales agreement, consistent with ethical obligations to be honest in dealings with third parties;acting as bar counsel seeking discipline against an attorney for violating confidentiality obligations through online comments;preparing time entries in client billing statements that are consistent with a lawyer's obligations to clients; anddrafting an advance conflict waiver.

  • Imprint: West Academic Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781634595032
  • Publication Date: Dec 2017
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Examining the Potential for Response to Intervention (RTI) Delivery Models in Secondary Education

Pam Epler

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781522521877
  • Publication Date: Mar 2017
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Professional Development in Relational Learning Communities

Miriam B. Raider-Roth

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780807758151
  • Publication Date: Feb 2017
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Developing Professional Skills

Douglas A. Blaze

This creative and original book provides ten independent exercises designed to help students master Criminal Law through real legal problems. Working with these exercises, students will tackle difficult criminal law questions to increase their understanding of the course topics while simultaneously developing skills in client interviewing and counseling, legal drafting, negotiation, and advocacy. These exercises also make it easier to integrate skills training into a traditional criminal law course.Each exercise is based on fundamental criminal law concepts so that the book can supplement any criminal law casebook. Students learn criminal law doctrine through problems requiring them to:Negotiate a plea agreement about an appropriate sentenceInterview and counsel clients about their chargesWrite an email to a supervising prosecutorPrepare a defense letter to a prosecutor countering a plea offerDraft an amendment to a criminal statuteMake a closing argumentThe book also provides a brief overview and tips for effective interviewing, negotiation, and counseling to help students begin the process of mastering the relevant skills. And it situates the lawyering exercises in the context of related professional responsibility rules.

  • Imprint: West Academic Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780314279804
  • Publication Date: Feb 2017
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Developing Professional Skills, Criminal Procedure

Renee Hutchins

  • Imprint: West Academic Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781634602778
  • Publication Date: Dec 2016
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Developing Professional Skills: Workplace Law

Rachel Arnow-Richman

  • Imprint: West Academic Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781634596053
  • Publication Date: Oct 2016
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Handbook of Research on Creative Problem-Solving Skill Development in Higher Education

Chunfang Zhou

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781522506430
  • Publication Date: Sep 2016
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Developing Professional Skills: Bankruptcy

Lois Lupica

  • Imprint: West Academic Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781634602549
  • Publication Date: Aug 2016
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Developing Professional Skills: Environmental Law

Sandra Zellmer

  • Imprint: West Academic Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780314280787
  • Publication Date: Jul 2016
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Teacher Learning in the Digital Age

Chris Dede

With an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) training, Teacher Learning in the Digital Age examines exemplary models of online and blended teacher professional development, including information on the structure and design of each model, intended audience, and existing research and evaluation data.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781612508986
  • Publication Date: Mar 2016
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