Getting Ready for X, Y, or Z

I’m so pleased to be back as a guest blogger. In honor of the AALS meeting, I am thinking about entry into legal academia. Does it (and should it) matter to law schools to place students in law teaching? Numbers and barriers to entry suggest that putting limited resources there may not always make sense. On the other hand, I know how much I enjoy seeing former and current students interested in law teaching (i.e., interested in what I do). When introductions to law teaching or similar courses are part of the curriculum, what should these look like? I’ve seen and participated in a few models. Presentations by junior faculty of work in progress is one approach. A seminar that looks at articles, syllabi, and other aspects of being a law professor, without guests, is another. Finally, I wonder whether law schools should (or do) have the equivalent for other jobs in the legal profession (“introduction to being a law firm associate,” prosecutor, judicial clerk, sole practitioner…)? Thoughts?