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 skill, 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.
- Good luck! Coaching mock trial was one of the most rewarding experiences in my teaching career.
