This workshop will provide teachers with a full day of best practices in pedagogy guaranteed to engage your economics, personal finance, and social studies courses.  We will tackle topics that can be more difficult to teach – supply and demand, inflation, and productivity, and international trade.  You will leave with an arsenal of resources.   Lunch and fun provided!  Lunch sponsored by Waddell & Reed. 

Agenda

1. Introductions
    *Goals for session
    *Name, where, and what do you teach.  Please share your general feelings about economics. 
2. Economic Vocabulary
    *Econ Bingo – Fifty Nifty Econ Cards; Core Concept Cards
    *Other Fed Resources, key ring and The Fed & You
3. Private Property Rights – Tragedy of the Commons
4. Engaging students with academic competitions
    *EconChallenge
    *FinanceChallenge
    *Stock Market Game
    *Rockonomix
5. Cocoa Market Simulation
    *Teaching Supply and Demand

Lunch provided by Waddell & Reed

6. Teaching International Trade
    *Bag Game
    *TOP Opportunity – funded study tour to Germany
    *Cuba opportunity
7. Personal Finance Session
    *Waddell & Reed
    *Learning, Earning, & Investing curriculum guide provided to all
8. Inflation Auction
9. Teaching Productivity
10. Curriculum Fair – take your pick home
11. Evaluations