Description
Using the ORID model, you will reflect upon and write a summary of your learnings from the course content.
ORID (Objective, Reflective, Interpretive, Decisional) is a way of structuring a learning experience in your mind. The ORID process separates aspects of learning and divides them into four categories. The paper will be a summary of your knowledge in this class in this structured way.
One way to think about this is to answer a series of questions about your learning experience.
Purpose
Learning legal information (statutes, cases, etc.) disconnected from context about how it relates to you is not very useful and is not likely to be remembered. If you connect what you learned to your own life and attach personal meaning to it, you will remember it and it becomes helpful in the future.
1. Objective
These are objective facts and data. It is what you observed through doing the readings, attending the class or posting and reading forums, doing assignments, thinking about the class, talking to others about the course.
This section will comprise of over half the paper and will have the most references to the materials, videos,readings powerpoints, and postings in online courses since it is about cognition (thinking). The guiding question here is:
What did I learn?
Collateral questions:
What interested you most about family law? How does this course relate to your family background? What readings caught your imagination? What classroom or online experiences were memorable? What passages were most interesting to you? This a summary of your learnings in the ten units we studied.
2. Reflective
This section is about our felt response to what we learned. Mental images, memories or associations may arise. The guiding question here is:
How do I feel about what I learned?
Collateral questions:
What were the high points during the course? What were some of your challenges or frustrations? Speaking generally, how did other students or the teacher influence you?
3. Interpretive
Also called integrative. This is where you process this new knowledge for meaning in your life. It is about the significance of this information for you. This can include insights or implications for your own life, including your core values. The guiding question here is:
So what?
Collateral questions:
What were the turning points for you during the course, the “aha” moments or significant paradigm shifts? In what ways did this program change some of your thinking about marriage, having children and divorce? What would be one critical insight that you now have as a result of this journey into family law? What teaching approaches most influenced you in this class?
4. Decisional
This is about actions or decisions or changes in thinking or behaviour as a result of your new learning. It is about your future and what are you going to do with this information. The guiding question here is:
Now What?
Collateral questions:
How will this educational experience inform or change your career or personal life? Will this course change the way you approach marriage or your own family dynamics in the future?
Structure:
APA style, approximately 3000 – 5000 words. It is easier to use more words (since this means only 500 words per unit which is not a lot).
The objective section should be thoroughly referenced.
Suggested Section headings: Preamble, Units 1-10 notes (including your ORID for each unit), Conclusion, References.
Resources:
The Focused Conversation Method Slide Share
Focused Conversation Method
there has to be 10 orid reflections for 10 units.
I will explain what each unit is about. Use that to write the orid reflections in an organized way.
The attachment is an example of what the final paper must look like.
Unit 1: This Unit will look at different perspectives on what family is, how it is understood in different contexts and how different laws and social policies in British Columbia and Canada impact families.
examine the reality of the contemporary family in Canada
evaluate the roles of policy and legislation on the family.
Unit 2: In this Unit, we will focus on marriage and how it is legally formed, and how it is dissolved. Our discussions will focus on different cultural and historical perspectives on marriage, divorce and separation and what role you think the state should have in the formation and dissolution of marriage or marriage-like relationships.
Unit 3:
Understand a parent’s rights and responsibilities relating to guardianship and parenting time
Understand the basic concepts of how parenting time is decided.
Understand how to brief cases.
Unit 4:
Understand the guiding principles behind child and spousal support as well as property division.
Increase your understanding of how to analyze a case from a set of facts and how legal decisions are made.
unit 5:
Understand parental alienation and estrangement and how to minimize this phenomenon in families.
Understand the impact of separation and divorce on children.
Appraise child development and age-related responses to parental conflict, parental separation and stress.
Unit 6:
cite basic principles underlying the laws regarding child protection; and,
analyze the rights of children in the child protection process.
Unit 7:
Understand the literature relating to family violence; and,
Learn to evaluate the options available in the event of family violence.
Unit 8:
Have an understanding of the alternatives to court and when they should be used.
Unit 9: In this Unit, you will look at the family court process in British Columbia
Unit 10: Future of family law