If you want to know more about who I am, that's explained in my first two posts from May 2008, Welcome and Why I'm Here.
You can wander through the archives chronologically, or search for something specific, using the links or search box in the righthand sidebar. You can also browse by general topic by clicking on the label links at the end of each post or in the following lists:
What I teach
- Principles of Micro
- Economics for Teachers (a course for students in the single-subject teaching credential program)
- Economic Literacy (a writing intensive course for econ majors)
- Data Analysis
- There also a lot of posts that provide ideas for teaching economics, some specific to my courses and some just in general
- And some posts are about life in academia in general (like dealing with student evaluations and assessment)
How I teach
- I teach the Data Analysis course with Team-Based Learning
- My Principles course is 500 students and I have spent a lot of time thinking about teaching large enrollment courses and class management
- I use a lot of instructional technology; some of the posts detailing how I use these tools are:
- How I teach Principles: Clickers (and lots of other posts about clickers)
- How I teach Principles: Podcasts
- How I teach Principles: Aplia
- Peer review with SWoRD (also see posts on writing)
- Using PollEverywhere instead of clickers
- My general approach to economics is highly applied and my teaching philosophy is very student-centered
