Small teaching strategies for enhancing case pedagogy

Abstract James Lang’s Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (2021) suggests that just as small, strategic plays help baseball teams win games on the field, simple, evidence-based teaching strategies can empower instructors to significantly enhance student learning in the classroom. This paper documents a self-study of two instructors beginning to use this approach to supplement their own case pedagogy. It aims to motivate other case instructors to similarly optimize their own case teaching in incremental ways starting today.