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Many teachers struggle with grounding their lessons in real and concrete examples. For how it is designed, school education often drifts toward general theoretical frameworks, and remains detached from practical examples or real-life situations drawn from life outside of school. As an innovative approach in didactics, Case-Based Learning (CBL) offers a way out of this difficulty and helps teachers create examples based on realistic or real-life situations that scaffold meaningful learning. Case-Based Learning is used in various professions - such as in medicine - to analyze a critical situation from a variety of points of view, trying to understand the factors that caused it, as well as the discoveries and insights that made it possible to get to its solution. Significantly, the method considers not only histories of success but also failures - and the mistakes that led to them. Thus, case-based learning is of paramount importance in showing students that errors are occasions for learning, just as it happens in real life. Moreover, since cases are openly shared and discussed, case-based learning is very useful to promote creativity and problem-solving. The course will introduce participants to a consistent method to analyze real-life situations, deconstruct them, and re-create interesting cases based on them, which teachers can use to promote meaningful learning in the classroom. Moreover, it will propose many examples and activities related to real case studies in subjects in the humanities (e.g., languages, history, social sciences, and literature) as well as in science (e.g., mathematics, chemistry biology). By the end of ...read more.