@Pizzagirl : Of course, as I took care to acknowledge in my post (so that no one would have to go to the trouble you did to point it out), Yale, Stanford Law, and Penn Law are not appropriate models for what the OP is doing. But I was reacting to the spate of posts that followed her first post – before she had identified the nonstandard issues in her class – where people like @skieurope (whose personal background is not so different from mine, I believe), not to mention you, reacted immediately to the effect of “You are making them read and do problems on a concept before you lecture on it in class? That’s wrong!” There were at least half a dozen of them. And the people who approved of what she was doing clearly saw it as bucking conventional methods, or something that would only be appropriate for students who had been raised that way, etc. I was kind of flabbergasted, because I thought what she was describing was the norm, not an exception.