Economics for Teachers: Musings about Teaching Economics

I’m about to get on a plane for Seattle where my session on Saturday, 4:30pm, looks to be one of only two sessions related to teaching. If anyone is attending, please come by! [101] Saturday, June 29, 4:30 – 6:15pm Flipping, Clicking and Other Contortions to Make Your Classes More Interactive (panel) Jennifer Imazeki, San Diego State University Mary Flannery, University of Notre Dame Brandon Sheridan, North Central College Steven Slezak, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo [169] Sunday, June 30, 4:30-6:15pm Teaching Economics Chair: Mark Holmgren, Eastern Washington University Papers: Mark Holmgren, Eastern Washington University, Do Giffen Goods Exist in Academic Learning? Susan Jacobson, Regis College, Beyond Content: What Should We Be Doing in Our Classrooms? Paul Johnson, University of Alaska, Anchorage, and Jonathan Alevy, University of Alaska, Anchorage, A Classroom Financial Market Experiment Mark Leonard, American University in Bulgaria, The Use ...

Some folks may have noticed that my posting is pretty sporadic. I was just looking at my stats and when I first started this blog (can’t believe it’s been five years!), I posted roughly every few days during the first year. Then it slowed down to about once a week. For the last several months, it’s been closer to once every few weeks, and some of those have been more public service announcements than me really writing about anything I’m personally doing with my teaching. This pattern is partly a reflection of what’s been happening with my classes – one reason I started this blog was as a place to ‘think aloud’ about what I was doing with some courses that were new to me and I was trying all kinds of random stuff, so it’s probably natural that over time, as I’ve honed what I’m doing, I haven’t felt the same need to write about them. It’s also a reflection of what’s been happening with me emotionally with regard to teaching – I’m definitely feeling burnt out. There is a reason that teac...