Objective
In this webinar teachers will be able to:
- Understand how to use research-based economic reasoning skills to critically inquire, analyze, discuss, and debate economic topics to develop evidence-based opinions.
- Identify controversial issues and culturally responsive teaching best-practices that cultivate civility toward opposing viewpoints while increasing student engagement.
Standards
Concepts
Competition, Consumers, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Demand, Economic Systems, Employment and Unemployment, Goods and Services, Government Failures, Incentives, Market Structures, Markets and Prices, Money, Opportunity Cost, Price Ceilings and Floors, Producers, Productive Resources, Productivity, Profit, Scarcity, Supply
Description
The first in a series of two webinars, this lecture-based professional development reviews essential concepts, theories, best practices, activities, and lessons on how teachers can successfully teach economic topics using evidence-based opinions and civil dialogue instructional strategies. Research-based controversial issues and culturally responsive instructional strategies for teaching economics will be modeled by the presenters using current events articles, cost-benefit analysis, PACED decision-making, and the economic way of thinking six economic principles. Background knowledge, current events articles, student-friendly PPT slides, lessons, handouts, classroom-ready activity sheets, and research studies included.