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, SC Economics' training programs use a variety of teaching
strategies to make economics fun, interesting and relevant for the student and the
teacher.
Active Learning Methodologygy
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.
SC Economics 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.
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