WELCOME TO DIANNA PUGH'S MOCK TRIAL WEBSITESOME IDEAS FOR COACHING A MOCK TRIAL TEAM
"COACH TO COACH"
CONGRATULATIONS!
- Thank you for making the decision to coach your school's mock trial team.
- Mock trial is an excellent way to learn about the law in a fun and a creative way. Students prepare and simulate a trial.
- Students play the rolls of attorneys, witnesses, and bailiffs.
- Through participation in mock trial, students have a better understanding of the legal system.
- Students learn the rules of evidence, proper courtroom decorum, and the importance of law in a democratic society.
- Mock trial increases student confidence, oral speaking skills, critical thinking skills, poise and teamwork skills.
- This website was created to provide new teachers with an overview of some of the ideas presented in the new teachers' meeting.
- It
is only intended to provide helpful hints that I used with my own
students in the past, and are not being published by Utah Law-Related
Education.
- Please feel
free to use the ideas in the spirit of one coach to another coach. This
website by no means covers everything you need to know about coaching a
mock trial team, but hopefully it will get your started.
- I
have included some links to help you learn more about the law and
provide you with some examples from actual mock trials and/or practices
to help you get a picture of how other teams practice and compete. I
will leave the decision up to you about the quality of the
presentations.
- Good
luck! Though mock trial involved a huge time commitment, coaching mock
trial was one of the most rewarding experiences in my teaching career.
Feel free to contact me at dpugh@judgememorial.com
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view." Robert Hutchin
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