Essay On Jury Duty

What an interesting start to my week-Jury Duty.
Can the courtroom be a classroom?
My thoughts on my early morning experience during jury duty selection-I noticed a few elements of successful teaching. The judge was very explicit in explaining the judicial process for selecting a jury, and in explaining the process for a civil case. She presented, gave examples, and even checked for understanding throughout the process. It was funny how I started connecting her questioning of the potential jurors to be like TDQs in the way that each question was essential to some element of the case (were there any connections to the parties involved, the businesses, workers, was there a past experience like the case that could impact your thinking or decision
He did a very good job of explaining the phrase and how it linked to a civil case. I got so caught up in listening to the Q&A and trying to figure out who they would choose based on responses and further questioning that I didn’t even realize how much time passed. Finally, it was time for them to make decisions on the first round of jurors. I felt like they probably had some pretty solid people to choose from and they may fill all of the seats, but I was still curious to see who would get selected. Interestingly enough, many of the ones I thought would get chosen were picked but there was one person who did not (still trying to figure out why they didn’t choose her-LOL). Some take a-ways- Courtroom/Classroom: explicit explanations (literal and inferential), demonstrations, examples, checking for understanding, vocabulary development, planned questions that related to the specific elements of the learning, clarification when needed, differentiation (one juror had a speech impediment, one juror had a hearing issue, one juror had attention/behavior issues-yes I am serious!), watching facial expressions for understanding or lack of understanding, judging responses and know when to probe for deeper understanding or clarification,