After seven years of teaching, I find that I am a completely different instructor from what I was when I started. Though that sounds obvious, I also see where my instructional methods still change from term to term. No two terms of the same course are identical. No two terms are identical based on the challenges of previous terms. Ultimately, I find that the shorter lectures followed by immediate hands-on work - in my profession that means legal drafting of court-ready documents - appears to be the most effective method of instruction. However, I find that it is difficult to get students to apply what was learned in previous terms to new material in new areas in subsequent terms. To remedy this, many instructors are now working on projects together to better demonstrate how skills and knowledge flow from one area of law to another.