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                     CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
                                for
        NSF-sponsored Case Studies in Science Summer Workshops

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 23-27, 2005
                        2nd workshop session:   June 6-10, 2005

Workshop Location:      State University of New York at Buffalo

Application Deadline:   Applications submitted by March 21, 2005,
                        will receive first consideration

Online Application is available via the Workshop Web Site at:
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/workshop/

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.

Our NSF grant funding allows us to offer the workshop to U.S. applicants
without a 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 in the U.S.  We can consider applications from U.S. high
school science teachers, under the same funding terms, on a limited basis.
Non-U.S. college science faculty applications will also be considered on a
limited basis, but we cannot provide any funding for such applicants and
must also charge a fee.

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.

APPLY ONLINE VIA THE WORKSHOP's WEB SITE at:
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/workshop/

Questions:  Contact Rebecca Firth, Workshop Coordinator, National Center
for Case Study Teaching in Science, [log in to unmask], 716-645-2947
x268 or Nancy Schiller, Co-Director, National Center for Case Study
Teaching in Science, [log in to unmask], 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:  [log in to unmask]
voice:  716-645-2947 x225
fax:    716-645-3710