Application for Harvard Case Method Project Workshop - An Opportunity for Teachers

Application for Harvard Case Method Project Workshop - An Opportunity for Teachers

On behalf of the Case Method Institute (CMI) and the Greenwich League of Women Voters, we are pleased to announce that CMI will be hosting a professional development workshop for League-nominated teachers on Saturday, August 20, 2022. This special opportunity to learn to teach history by the case method will be led by Harvard Professor David Moss on Zoom and is open to all high school teachers of U.S. history, government, and civics.
 
Since 2019, 115 League chapters in 33 states have nominated teachers to take part in CMI workshops. CMI seeks to empower teachers and prepare students for active citizenship by bringing a case-based American history curriculum to classrooms nationwide. Teachers who complete the professional development workshop will receive access, at no cost, to twenty-two original cases from Professor Moss’s acclaimed Harvard course, “History of American Democracy,” along with the original teaching plans and ongoing support from CMI.
 
The nomination deadline for high school teachers is Friday, July 15, although nominations will be accepted on a rolling basis starting today. 
 
Please contact the LWV Utica/Rome Metro Area, leagueuticarome [at] gmail.com, if you are interested.
 
Additionally, this year there will be an additional opportunity to experience case method teaching in action! The Greenwich League will be sponsoring a virtual case discussion with Professor Moss on Wednesday, April 6th. You are invited to register for the event here, and please feel free to share the invitation with other interested Leagues, high schools, and teachers in your community and state.
 
Julia Monaco                                                            Dr. Deirdre Kamlani
Case Method Institute                                             LWV Greenwich
 
 
 

From the LWV Greenwich: Teacher Nomination Guidelines

League chapters can nominate an unlimited number of enthusiastic US history, government or civics high school teachers, so you do not need to narrow the pool of applicants.
  1. The workshop will take place on one day (Saturday, August 20), and Professor Moss will conduct it via Zoom, removing time, travel and cost barriers for participants.
  2. The afternoon of live virtual training will include an interactive case discussion. Professor Moss will discuss his “History of American Democracy” course and illustrate the case method teaching approach - the core pedagogy used at Harvard Business School for decades.
  3. An 8-hour, asynchronous training program, completed before the Zoom-based session with Professor Moss, will familiarize teachers with the case method.
  4. A curriculum of Harvard cases will be made available to teachers free of cost from the “History of American Democracy” when they complete the workshop.
  5. A certificate from the Case Method Institute, detailing 32 hours of professional development, will be delivered to teachers upon successful completion of the course and related training and implementation.
  6. Teachers agree to teach at least four cases in their classes in the 2022-2023 academic year, and their sponsoring League chapter agrees to run one community case discussion with their teachers before June 30, 2023.
  7. The workshop is the entry point to a sustained partnership with the Case Method Institute for Education and Democracy, which aims to help teachers more effectively deliver on the democratic promise of a high school education. The Institute provides training, case materials and ongoing teacher support entirely free of charge.
  8. For more information, you can visit the website of the Case Method Institute: www.cmi.org  You can also visit the Greenwich League’s dedicated webpage: https://www.lwvgreenwich.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=784813&module_id=405410. 
  9. Nominations are welcome on a rolling basis, but no later than 5pm (Eastern) on Friday, July 15. We can only consider active high school teachers of US history, government or civics for the workshop.

 

What's it all about?

The Harvard Civics Project is an initiative formed (1) to bring case method teaching to high schools, and (2) to use this methodology to deepen students' understanding of American democracy.

Based on the highly successful experience of Harvard Business School and other graduate and professional programs that use case-based teaching, the case method can be employed to strengthen high school education as well, ensuring a more exciting, relevant, and effective experience for students and teachers across a range of subjects. The case method can be especially effective at engaging students with topics in history and democracy, and it presents a unique opportunity to help reverse the broad decline in civic education and civic engagement in the United States. The national media have also pointed to the advantages of this method for engaging students. A Better Way To Teach History

Project cases are based on those outlined in Harvard Business School Professor David Moss's recent book, Democracy: A Case Study. Click here to watch Professor David A. Moss discuss his book, Democracy: A Case Study.