Elon Law Professor Antonette Barilla proposed measures for law school educators to maximize millennial students’ learning and achievement at the New England Consortium of Academic Support Professionals Conference.
Barilla addressed law school professionals at the conference in Boston this month. The conference topic, Changing Students, Evolving Roles for Academic Support Professionals, called on professors and Academic and Bar Support administrators to share and explore ideas related to innovative methods of supporting law students. Barilla, who directs Elon Law’s Academic and Bar Support Program, presented her work on facilitating students in their development of well-honed, honest self-awareness as a method of increasing both academic and professional success.
Barilla’s presentation focused on self-awareness as a key attribute for law school success, and on the support our programs can provide to develop and enhance it among this new generation of law students. It also explored measurement of students’ actual self-awareness and of student perceptions of the ‘work-to-success’ ratios exhibited by recent generations. Understanding that the Millennial manages her approach to education in remarkably differently ways than most of her professors did, Professor Barilla proposed measures law school educators might consider implementing to help promote a more mindful, self-knowledgeable student population that is better primed for maximizing their learning and achievement.
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