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Workshops
A variety of workshops will be
offered on Monday afternoon, Tuesday
morning, Tuesday afternoon and on Thursday afternoon. Please indicate
your first and second choice in each time-frame on the fax-back form
included in this package. We will try to accommodate your choices.
Please see draft agenda at http://www.nji.ca/internationalforum for
full descriptions and presenters.
Monday Afternoon:
| 1. | Getting started: creating and sustaining a successful training centre
with limited resources |
| 2. | Assessing educational needs and designing a curriculum to deal with them |
| 3. | The judicial educator: faculty development and training |
| 4. | Evaluating judicial education and judicial education organizations:
What can and should be measured? |
| 5. | Support to the judicial curriculum: mentoring and education plans |
| 6. | Ethical issues in the design and delivery of judicial education:
funding and control of content |
| 7. | Education and the judicial career: effective education for newly
appointed judges |
| 8. | University-based judicial education |
| 9. | Judicial Leaders Roundtable |
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Tuesday Morning:
| 1. | Exploring the potential and limitations of distance education |
| 2. | Making judicial resources available through technology; bench-books;e-letters;
databases; the electronic library; individual learning plans;and web-sites |
| 3. | Web-stream learning: asynchronous courses, web casting and curriculum
design and delivery in e-learning modules |
| 4. | How technology can assist in development of basic resources and
programs for judicial education |
| 5. | Developing and maintaining a secure judicial network—the Canadian
experience |
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Tuesday Afternoon:
| 1. | Hands-on program design workshop: a skills-based design exercise |
| 2. | Decision making: assessing credibility and making findings of fact |
| 3. | Judicial dispute resolution and case management |
| 4. | Receiving and weighing scientific evidence |
| 5. | The application of procedure principles |
| 6. | Teaching diversity issues |
| 7. | Teaching judicial ethics |
| 8. | Educating court related justice system professionals: a review of
best practices |
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Thursday Afternoon:
| 1. | Gender equality law: developing judicial capacity to interpret
and apply international and domestic standards |
| 2. | Judges as problem solvers: the role of interdisciplinary learning
(including specialized court processes and therapeutic jurisprudence
approaches) |
| 3. | Rethinking Paradigms: approaches to judicial education |
| 4. | Decision-making processes in social context (including social cognition
research and social transformation legislation) |
| 5. | Sexual violence and the judicial caseload: approaches to judicial
education (sexual assault, sex trafficking) |
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