- Part Two of my Teach Me Econ podcast conversation is now available.
- One thing James and I talked about in Part One of our conversation was using history as a ‘hook’ for getting more future social science teachers interested in economics. Then along comes a Weakonomics post about “Eight economic things you don’t know about the pre-civil war south and slavery” that provides a great place to start.
- In addition to an awesome “Primer for New Teachers of Economics” in the current issue
(ungated version available on my personal website), the Southern Economic Journal has a forthcoming article on “Targeting Teaching Using ESPN 30 for 30 to Teach Economics”.
(ungated version available on my
As I mentioned in my last post , I am asking my Econ for Teachers students to reflect on their reading by responding to discussion prompts. It occurred to me that it wouldn't be a bad idea for me to share my thoughts on those issues here and see if anyone wants to chime in. For this week, the students were asked to read the California and national content standards , an article by Mark Schug and others about why social science teachers dread teaching economics and how to overcome the dread, an article by William Walstad on the importance of economics for understanding the world around us and making better personal decisions (with some evidence on the dismal state of economic literacy in this country), and another article by Walstad on the status of economic education in high schools (full citations below). The reflection prompt asks the students to then answer the following questions: What was your high school econ experience like? What do you remember most from that class? How do...
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