Teacher Guide to CA Economics Standards: Helping teachers teach the mandated high school economics course
To help teachers meet the 1998 Standards, CCEE has developed a handbook comprised of 23 lessons. Content focuses on economic principles, including choice, costs of choices, benefit/cost analysis and the role of profit and competition in a market economy. The new lessons provide usable concepts to guide economics teachers in preparing students to function as adults including roles, responsibilities, opportunities and challenges in the labor market, choosing products and services, saving and investing, and participating intelligently in our democracy.
Components of the Guide:
The Guide includes the following for each of the 23 units:
- Explanation of the Concepts
- Multiple Choice questions and worksheets
- Mistakes to avoid
- PowerPoint Presentations
- Available print and electronic resources
- Evaluations: Evaluations from Teacher Guide workshop participants demonstrate a 96% approval rating.
Teacher comments include the following:
- I learned more in two days than I did in two semesters of college economics.
- After this workshop, I feel like I can teach this stuff!
- I was on the phone raving about this program last night.
- I can’t wait to use the materials in my classroom.
- The instructors were humorous, intelligent, compassionate, professional, and informative.
Student pre- and post-test results demonstrate a statistically significant improvement in student understanding of the workings of the U.S. economy in a global setting.
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PowerPoints
1 - Economics
2 - Cost
3 - Benefit/Cost
4 - Marginal Analysis
5 - Exchange
6 - Production
7 - Market System
8 - Buyers and Sellers
9 - Market Analysis
10 - More Markets
11 - Human Capital
12 - Incentives
13 - Property Rights
14 - Messed up Markets
15 - Government
16 - Macro Intro
17 - Reading
18 - Fiscal and Multiplier
19 - Money Fed
20 - Monetary Policy
21 - Personal Finance
22 - Globalization
