Helping Teachers Teach Economics
Through programs such as Huffing and Puffing Through Economics:
Using Children’s
Literature to Teach Economics and Fe Fi Fo Fum, Making
Economics Fun for the Diverse
Learner, SCCEE’s training programs use a variety of teaching
strategies to make economics
fun, interesting and relevant for the student and the teacher.
Active Learning Methodology
Activity-based lessons help students remember and apply abstract
economic concepts.
Different levels of students—from underachievers to honors
students—can take part,
succeed and benefit from our activities. In fact, activity-based
lessons challenge students
to think and to take responsibility for their own learning.
The Economic Way of Thinking
Active learning is an ideal way to teach the economic way of
thinking. The very essence
of being economically literate is asking yourself the question, “I
wonder what the cost is?” when something
attracts you. The key to helping students learn an economic
way of
thinking is to start young, at the same time youngsters are
being influenced by television,
movies, print material, the internet and travel.
Program Delivery
Centers for Economic Education
South Carolina Council on Economic Education leverages South
Carolina’s intellectual
resources through partnerships with university-based Centers
for Economic Education.
The Center directors, experienced economists with a
passion for teaching economics and working with K-12
educators, provide in-service training and
graduate courses. Learn more here.
ELITE Teachers
Educational Leaders in Teaching Economics
ELITE Teachers are SCCEE’s economic ambassadors who
participate in intensive training sessions with the Center
directors to prepare them to train other teachers. The
ELITEs are K-12 teachers who value and understand the
importance of economic literacy. They share their
knowledge and passion for economics as co-presenters
with the Center directors or by condutcing training
programs on their own. They also help with recruiting
teachers for SCCEE events and serve as program
consultants. Learn more here.
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