What is an educational case?

-An educational case is an educational event. Events are only necessary conditions for educational cases, not sufficient conditions. In other words, events are only the basic materials of educational cases. Not all events can become cases, but all events that can become cases are conditional.

-Educational cases are real events. Although the case is an interesting story, it should be as lively and interesting as the story, but the fundamental difference between the case and the story is that the story can be fabricated, and the case must reflect the real events and truly reproduce them.

-The education case is a typical event. As an educational case, the event must be typical, and similar events should be explained and interpreted from the solution of this event, and readers should be inspired and experienced in one way or another.

-the education case is a difficult task. An event that can become an educational case must include certain difficult scenes (problems and contradictions that need to be solved) and methods and ideas to solve these difficult scenes.

-An educational case is a situational event. The events described in the case should be in the process of teachers' classroom teaching or class management, which occurred in the last three to five years, with specific time and space scope and real scenes.

-Writing educational cases is a vivid description and reflective interpretation of educational events that happened in a specific time and space, which are true, typical and have certain difficult problems.

-Educational cases are not teaching and research papers, experience summaries, work reports, teaching designs, educational stories, rules and regulations, and development plans.

How to write an educational case?

There is almost no uniform format for case writing, and there is no modular "writing method" that everyone follows. But judging from the content of the case, a relatively complete case generally involves the following aspects:

-The title of the education case: Generally speaking, there are two ways to determine the title of the case: one is to take the event as the title, that is, to take the outstanding events in the case as the title; The second is to use the theme to set the title, and separate the theme contained in the incident as the title of the case.

-Introduction of educational cases: Introduction can also be said to be a prelude, and generally one or two sentences or even one or two sentences are enough. It mainly describes the general scene of the event and implicitly reflects the possible themes of the event.

-Background of the educational case: The events in the case took place within a certain time and space framework, relying on a certain background. In the narrative of the case, the description of the background is very important, because the analysis and evaluation of the problems in the case, whether the methods are appropriate and whether the measures are reasonable, all need to know the course of the incident and cannot be separated from the background.

-Background of educational cases: The description of background can be divided into two parts: indirect background and direct background. Indirect background is the background related to the event but not directly related; Direct background is the background that directly leads to the occurrence of events and is closely related to them.

-Problems of educational cases: Asking questions: The biggest feature that distinguishes a case from a general case is that it has a clear sense of problems and is developed around the problems. In the description, it is necessary to explain what the problem is, how it happened and why.

-The problem of educational cases: solving problems is the main body of the whole case. This part needs to be described in detail, showing the process and steps of solving the problem, as well as the repetition and frustration in solving the problem, and also involving the description of the initial results of solving the problem, and avoiding simplification and superficiality in solving the problem.

-Reflection on educational cases: Educational cases are completed by teachers who work and live in the front line of education and teaching. The process of writing a case is also a process of reanalyzing one's psychological process of solving problems, and also a process of combing one's relevant experiences and lessons, so reflection and discussion are an essential part.

Reflection on educational cases: reflection on educational cases should be "three wants and three don't": concise and to the point, not verbose; Be sincere and don't lie; Stick to the subject, don't be broad-minded

-Appendices to educational cases: Not every educational case has an appendix. Whether to arrange an appendix depends on the specific circumstances of the case. The contents in the Appendix are supplementary materials to explain the main theme of the text. If you put them in the text, it will affect the narrative of the text because of its long length.

Why write educational cases?

Every teacher will encounter one kind or another "event" in his teaching career. These "events" can be expressed in the form of cases. The process of "event" becoming "case" is a process of re-understanding this "event" and sorting out one's own thinking.

Case writing provides an opportunity for principals and teachers to record their education and teaching experience. A teacher writing a case is actually a description of his career, a record of the light of life and a reflection on the educational value.

Case writing can make teachers more deeply aware of the key and difficult points in their work. Facts that can become cases are often difficult problems to solve in work. In the process of sorting out teaching experience, teachers are often impressed by the facts that they are puzzled by.

Case writing can promote teachers to reflect on their own behavior and improve the professional level of teaching. Case writing will make teachers pay attention to the hidden problems behind their daily work, be a "thinking practitioner" and a "practical thinker", and keep maturing.

Why write educational cases?

Case writing provides an effective way for teachers to share experiences and strengthen communication. Through the case, teachers know what colleagues are thinking, doing, facing problems and countermeasures, and tacit knowledge becomes explicit, and communication and sharing become possible.

How to evaluate educational cases?

-What is a good education case? There are three points that must be considered: first, authenticity, false fabrication of one-vote veto; The second is typical, the short story makes sense and gives people inspiration and thinking; The third is readability, smooth narration and fascinating.

-You are the author of your own life story!

When you step into the magic door of education, all kinds of unforgettable educational events will meet and leave you constantly. As for whether you can find and describe these stories, it is up to you!