The fall semester of this year-long seminar [formerly called Teaching Assistant Training (2)and Writing Fellow Seminar (2]) provides training for students who will work as teaching assistants for a LAWR I course (2 credits) or as teaching fellows in the Academic Achievement Program (1 credit). The course focuses on collaborative learning and teaching in the law school context. Students in the seminar will study peer teaching techniques and the teaching of legal writing, with particular focus on commenting on student writing and holding individual teaching conferences. Through the study of articles on legal writing pedagogy, composition theory, and collaborative learning, students will learn the theories behind effective feedback techniques; they will put these theories into practice through a number of “practice rounds” before they comment on actual student writing or meet with students in peer learning sessions. Before holding actual conferences or meetings with students, they will read about, view videos, discuss, and role-play effective conference and teaching techniques. Students who work as LAWR I teaching assistants in the fall will, in the spring semester, become Writing Center teaching fellows, who will be responsible for staffing the Writing Center, the field placement component of the seminar. For those who are working in the Writing Center, the focus of the spring semester seminar shifts to writing in the scholarly context, teaching persuasive writing, and working with other forms of student writing in the Writing Center. Fellows will continue to learn to teach through written comments and the writing conference as they expand their proficiency with different forms of writing that such comments and conferences might cover. Second year day and third year evening Writing Center fellows taking the year-long course will be required to commit to an additional semester of writing center staffing during either semester of their final year in law school. Fellows will not receive credit for this final semester of staffing, but will be paid at teaching assistant rates. Students who work as Academic Achievement teaching fellows in the fall will continue their work in the spring semester. For this group, the spring semester seminar will focus on working with students involved with the Academic Achievement Program. Students in this seminar will study articles that lay the foundation for working with students on building legal analysis skills and improving their academic performance. Topics will include case reading, class preparation, outlining and synthesizing and effective exam-taking. Academic Achievement teaching fellows put what they have learned in the seminar into practice by assisting with the structured study groups that are designed for selected students in the first year class. The field placement component of the seminar will also involve the teaching fellows holding weekly office hours to assist any student who seeks to improve his or her academic performance. Students in the Teaching Fellows Seminar will receive one grade at the end of the year, though an advisory grade may be given at the end of the first semester.