Button completes workshop course
RENO, Nevada — Sandy Button, chief clerk of Pea Ridge District Court, completed Designing and Presenting Programs Effectively: Arkansas Faulty Development Workshop, according to the National Judicial College (NJC). The workshop was Sept. 25-27, in Eureka Springs.
The course educates participants on how people learn and how to draft appropriate learning objectives, create learning activities, develop an effectively structured presentation, and teach more effectively and with greater confidence. The ultimate goal is to give participants the confidence to take reasonable risks when teaching.
The National Judicial College was founded in 1963 and is the nation’s leading provider of judicial education. The NJC is housed in a state-of-the-art building on the historic 255acre campus of the University of Nevada, Reno. For 50 years, the NJC has been offering courses to improve judicial productivity, challenge current perceptions of justice and inspire judges to achieve judicial excellence. With courses held onsite, across the nation and around the world, the NJC offers an average of 95 courses annually with more than 3,000 judges enrolling from all 50 states, U.S. territories and more than 150 countries. Since it opened, the NJC has awarded more than 95,000 professional judicial education certificates.
The NJC and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges assisted the University of Nevada, Reno, in developing one of the nation’s first master’s and Ph.D. in judicial studies programs. Both programs provide a formal academic setting in which trial judges can integrate technical and academic studies to attain an intellectual understanding of the American judiciary.
The NJC is also home to the National Tribal Judicial Center and an International Program. The College’s curricula include a Seminar Series, made up of courses that provide judges the opportunity to study diverse and interesting topics at historically and culturally rich locations across the United States. Web-based courses are also offered enabling participants to explore a variety of subject areas online.
The National Judicial College has an appointed 18-member Board of Trustees and became a Nevada not-for-profit (501)(c)(3) educational corporation on January 1, 1978.
Please visit the NJC website at www.judges.org for NJC news, ways to donate, course information and more. Or, call (800) 25-JUDGE for more information.