Case method teaching technique to teach history

Case method teaching technique to teach history

1. innovative

   • teaching strategies
     • to teach history
   • effective
   • exciting
   • productive

2. ability to

   • recognize competing narratives
   • construct meaning
   • interpret

3. goes beyond

   • historical skills
   • factual content
   • decision-making skills
     • Students
       • are asked
         • what they would do
           • public education in 1851
           • labor and industry in 1901
   • Class participation
     • is
       • mandatory
       • enthusiastic

4. Narrative teaching

   • big picture
   • cognitively critical to historical knowledge
   • helps students
     • to engage
     • effective way to learn
     • to remember
   • Active emotion
   • Stories stick in the mind
     • easier to remember

5. series of cases

   • allowed students
     • focus more
     • strength of a memory
     • activate emotion
     • engaged and remember
     • to love history
     • understood Facts
     • judgment
     • learn the art of decision-making