Emerging Markets Case Studies

A teaching note acts as a guide to both instructors who are deciding whether to teach your case and to those who have decided to teach your case. It shows the teaching objectives of the case as well as the academic value an instructor adds to the information in the case through the teaching process. It gives the instructors resources they could use to deepen their knowledge of the topic being taught. It also demonstrates your depth of knowledge of the chosen field of academia. Many of the emerging market cases will be taught by instructors who have never lived, worked or taught in the specific emerging market setting of your case study, and so your teaching note should enable the instructors to gain insights into the complexities and challenges of these unique operating environments. A teaching note also gives suggestions as to how the case could be taught; from the questions the students should prepare before the class based on their reading of the case, to an example of a plan for the case teaching session. It includes possible answers to the assignment questions and may include a range of additional materials that could be used by the lecturers. It does not prescribe how a case should be taught, it merely offers suggestions. A teaching note can be of great assistance to instructors who are new to teaching cases, so it should reflect knowledge of case teaching methodology. The teaching note is not shown to the organization or person about whom you wrote the case or to the students. Method of writing a teaching note A teaching note should be begun at the same time as the outset of writing the case and should evolve over a period of time. The teaching objectives and major theoretical aspects should be decided on before the case is written as discussed in the guidelines for writing a case. The analysis of the assignment questions could be written before you teach the case for the first time. The teaching plan section may only be written after you have taught the case for the first time and you discovered what worked and didn’t work in the teaching process. You would also then be aware of what issues the students raised that you may want to discuss in the teaching note. Teaching notes require a great detail of preparation as they become part of the intellectual capital of the teaching fraternity and become part of your academic brand. Format of a teaching note It is strongly suggested that submitted teaching notes follow the format and all the headings given in the template example below. It is expected that a teaching note would be a minimum of 4000 words but may go up to 10,000 words.