9. Designing toolkits, for example, case study toolkit, cooperative and peer review toolkit

Thinking questions

• What can be the advantages of case studies in your practice?
• What case study methods do you know and which of them have you used effectively?

• Have you ever used this method to facilitate, monitor and asses teaching/learning?
• What skills should EFL teachers have to be able to design case study?

Case studies are a form of problem-based learning, where you present a situation that needs a resolution. A typical business case study is a detailed account, or story, of what happened in a particular school, kindergarten or project over a set period of time.

The basic elements of a case study are:

• a scenario with supporting data
• a statement of an issue
• the strategies to collect data
• method of evaluation
• sharing the outcomes with colleagues or using the data to redesign lessons