Workshops at NCSS 2009 Give Teachers Tools to Enhance their K-12...

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November 12, 2009

The Council for Economic Education ( www.councilforeconed.org ) revealed its action-packed economics and personal finance workshop series scheduled for the National Council on the Social Studies Conference ( http://www.socialstudies.org ) on November 13-15, 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia. During the workshops, social studies teachers will explore proven teaching strategies and fail-safe tips for teaching economics and personal finance to students at all learning levels. Teachers will leave with ready-to-use lesson plans and activities that will help them jump start their economics ( http://store.councilforeconed.org/economics.html ) and personal finance ( http://store.councilforeconed.org/personalfinance.html ) curriculum. "Demand for economic lesson plans has skyrocketed due to the recent economic crisis," notes Troy D. White, CEE's Senior Director of Sales and Marketing. "These workshops give teachers at all grade levels the tools they need to teach key economic events, both today and in the future." Workshops Teachers will learn that infusing economics into their elementary curriculum doesn't have to be difficult; in fact, it can be as easy as sculpting with modeling clay, ( http://store.councilforeconed.org/playdougheconomics.html ) reading popular children's stories ( http://store.councilforeconed.org/teaching-econ-using-childrens-lit.html ) and watching a fun DVD with an energetic dog puppet named Hershel. On Friday, teachers are invited to join Kathy Miles, CEE Teacher Support Specialist and Harlan Day, Executive Director of the Indiana Council for Economic Education in their morning and afternoon workshops. In the sessions, teachers will learn how to seamlessly introduce basic economic concepts like scarcity, opportunity cost, supply and demand to their young students. Mr. Day will profile his popular and free Hershel's" World of Economics" DVD, and show teachers how the star of this video hit, Hershel, the dog puppet can get young students' tuned to basic economic concepts. Following Harlan's workshop, Mrs. Miles, will take teachers down the path of economic knowledge with a handy road map designed to integrate economics into basic subject areas. Teacher's will leave with an outline of must-have economics resources and ready-to-use activities and web resources they can start using right away. Teachers set aside their textbooks and make room for their computers during a series of technology sessions profiling the latest digital and online resources and materials for economics and personal finance. Teachers will explore helpful online teaching tools that are both free and intuitive, and they will test drive online teacher training modules, packed with teaching strategies, FAQ's, and classroom resources. In the first set of technology workshops led by John LeFeber, CEE Curriculum and Instructional Developer, teachers will explore two useful websites; Thinkfinity.org and Econedlink.org. Teachers will learn how they can infuse multimedia from these websites into their classroom, and discover easy search tools that will help them pull online lesson plans for economics and personal finance by concept, grade level and state standards. Later in the afternoon, teachers will visit with Mrs. Miles to learn about advanced professional development opportunities with new online training tools. Teachers will explore an online platform designed to put the power of professional development into their own hands, with self-paced modules, videos and training materials. Plus, teachers will learn how they can easily earn credits for their time and use these modules as teaching aids in their current classrooms. ( http://store.councilforeconed.org/training.html ) Getting students ready for the AP exam starts with a well-designed AP curriculum. ( http://store.councilforeconed.org/apeconomics.html ) In Mr. LeFeber's "Prepare Your AP Economics Course for Success" workshop, teachers will take a step-by-step approach to teaching AP Economics. First, Mr. LeFeber will take teachers through the process of selecting the right students for an AP economics class. Next, teachers will learn how to construct their syllabus to hammer down important economics topics covered on the AP exam. And, finally, teachers will learn how to hand-pick the right teaching materials and resources for their classroom and integrate rigorous, interactive lesson plans into their instruction. By the end of the session, teacher's will have a basic foundation for starting up their own AP economics class with ready-to-use lesson plans and a basic AP Economics course blueprint. During the highly interactive session, Understanding Economics in Civics and Government, teachers will discover that they don't have to be seasoned economics teachers to infuse economics concepts into their civics and government classroom. In this hands-on workshop, teachers will follow Mrs. Miles through a series of activities and lesson plans designed to help teach economics in civics and

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