1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 ...end
Session 1 - Wednesday, 22 Jan
...
- Read Chapin Ch. 9 – I'm going to have to do a more textbook-centered treatment of econ...
- Read Econ standards in CourseSite folder
- Work on instructional unit
| Anchor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Before class
- Complete reading
- Work on final assignments
During class (ppt)
- Microteaching demo – You'll need these links
- KWL set up as a Google form. (Note that we'll use it twice.)
- Map of Jim Crow laws
- Discussion of economics
- Economics & the curriculum & you
- Economics as integration: Classic lesson topic = Great Depression. Here's a sample lesson from Social Ed, but there are lots of other ways to get at this.
- Economics as a representation / simplification / model. Examples: micro S & D, macro AS & AD. Competing policy implications of different models of AS & AD. I'm using ThinkEconomics here -- it's worth playing with & exploring. Bookmark it for later.
- Demo lessons
- Play-Doh Economics, from Indiana's Council for Economic Ed. You can get the first edition online for free; the second edition you have to buy (Amazon).
- Activity de-brief -- what was learned: concepts? Skills? Attitudes?
- A market in wheat. This is a CLASSIC lesson. I first encountered it in the 'Morton' books for teaching AP Econ--it's also available in a CEE publication via Google Books: lesson, entire book.
Activity de-brief -- what was learned: concepts? Skills? Attitudes? Any citizenship development going on here?– can't do activity; not enough students
- Play-Doh Economics, from Indiana's Council for Economic Ed. You can get the first edition online for free; the second edition you have to buy (Amazon).
- A critical stance on economics education (in the US, at least): where's the non-capitalism? Example of Islamic banking, etc. Related links
- Price anchoring & the world of behavioral economics: Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational.
- Importance of framing ('death tax' vs. 'estate tax'): George Lakoff's Metaphors We Live By – for a more contemporary application, see Don't Think of an Elephant.
- 'The poverty tax' – gambling and household income: Clotfelter, Cook, Edell, & Moore, 1999.
- Setting up the system to default to success: Thaler & Sunstein's Nudge.
- Opportunities to think critically & address citizenship/global citizenship:
- VisualizingEconomics.com – for example, http://visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2010/03/15/federal-tax-rates-by-income-for-single-filers-2009
- ...and the issue of microfinance (e.g.,Kiva.org), et al.
- Closure: Bringing together geography, economics, civics, and history: gapminder.org
After class
- Read Econ PDFs in CourseSite (note authorship!)
- Work on final assignments
- Prep microteaching