CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR NSF-SPONSORED
CASE STUDIES IN SCIENCE SUMMER WORKSHOP
Presented by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science,
University at Buffalo, State University of New York, with funding from
the National Science Foundation
Workshop Dates: 1st workshop session: May 17-21, 2004
2nd workshop session: June 7-11, 2004
Workshop Location: State University of New York at Buffalo
This five-day workshop focuses on training undergraduate college science
faculty to teach with case studies, to write their own cases, and to
assess their students' learning with cases. The final two days of the
workshop, participants teach a case before a student audience using a case
they have developed during the workshop or one taken from our case study
collection. Workshop participants are expected to produce a case study
within six months of the workshop for our national, peer-reviewed case
collection.
Participation in the workshop is by application only and is limited to 40
people per workshop session.
NSF grant funding allows us to offer the workshop without charging a
registration fee. In addition, all workshops materials, meals (breakfast
Monday through lunch Friday), and on-campus lodging (in the dorms) are
covered. In addition, travel expenses are covered by NSF for science
faculty attending the workshop who are from Historically Black Colleges
and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges and
Universities, and Minority Postsecondary Institutions.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:
Monday
8:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome and Overview: What Do We Know About Cases?
What Do We Need to Know?
9:45 a.m. Teaching a Case Using the Discussion Method
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Analyzing the Case Study Process
2:00 p.m. Writing Your Own Cases, Part I
Tuesday
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Using Small Groups in Case Work: Interrupted Cases,
Problem Based Learning
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Team Learning Using Cases: A Revolution in Teaching
3:00 p.m. Writing Your Own Cases, Part II
Wednesday
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Types of Cases and How to Teach Them: Presentations by
"Veteran" Case Method Teachers in Different Science
Disciplines
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Writing Your Own Cases, Part III
Thurs & Fri Practice Teaching Sessions: Teaching Your Own Cases
WORKSHOP DIRECTOR - Workshop Director Clyde F. (Kipp) Herreid is a
Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Biological Sciences Department at
the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has conducted numerous
workshops around the country on case method teaching, team learning, and
problem-based learning. He is the author of a column on case studies
regularly featured in the Journal of College Science Teaching and Director
of the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science.
Questions: Contact Rebecca Metcalf, Workshop Coordinator, National Center
for Case Study Teaching in Science, rmetcalf@buffalo.edu, 716-645-2947
x272 or Nancy Schiller, Co-Director, National Center for Case Study
Teaching in Science, schiller@buffalo.edu, 716-645-2947 x225
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Nancy Schiller, Co-Director
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Science and Engineering Library
228 Capen Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260-1672
email: schiller@acsu.buffalo.edu
voice: 716-645-2947 x225
fax: 716-645-3710