The Stavros Center hosts several workshops and events throughout the year. We encourage teachers to attend workshops to broaden their horizons.
Everything You Need to Teach Economics on One CD-ROM
| When: | Monday, October 17, 2005 (5 PM to 8 PM) |
| For Whom: | All teachers, Grades K through 12 who would like lesson plans about how to teach economic topics more effectively. |
| Where: | Stavros Center for Economic Education 250 South Woodward Street FSU Campus |
| Workshop Leader: | John S. Morton Vice President National Council on Economic Education. |
About the Workshop
The Virtual Economics 3.0 CD-ROM is one of the most powerful instructional resources you can use to infuse economics in grades K-12 or to teach the high school economics course. And our workshop leader is the primary developer of this tool. The CD-Rom makes it possible for you to choose from 1,200 print and online lessons in economics and personal finance and search for them by key economics concept, key word, national economics standard, grade level, and Florida's economics standards. All lessons can be printed for classroom use. In addition, there are 51 economics and personal finance concepts organized into five categories. Each concept contains an overview, featured lessons organized by grade level, teaching tips, and a multimedia demonstration of the concept. A glossary containing over 500 terms is linked to the concept overviews.
Each teacher who attends the workshop will receive a free copy of the Virtual Economics 3.0 CD-ROM. The NCEE list price for this item is $99.About John S. Morton
John S. Morton is Vice President for Program Development at the National Council on Economic Education. Previously, he was President of the Arizona Council on Economic Education and Director of the Center for Economic Education at Governors State University. Mr. Morton has over 35 years’ experience as a high school economics teacher, college professor, college administrator, and economic education writer and presenter. Mr. Morton is the author of more than 50 publications, including Advanced Placement Economics (National Council on Economic Education); Capstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics (National Council on Economic Education); and Economics: Choices and Challenges (Houghton Mifflin/McDougal Littell). He chaired the Advisory Board of The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition from 1991 to 2000.
Mr. Morton has extensive experience with AP Economics. He served on the College Board Advanced Placement Test Development Committee in Economics from 1986 to 1990. He is the author of Advanced Placement Economics, which is the most widely used AP Economics supplemental package in the nation. He has given hundreds of presentations on AP Economics at professional meetings, for the College Board, and for Centers of Economic Education across the country. Most importantly, he taught AP Economics from 1989 to 1997.
>Mr. Morton has received several awards for teaching economics, including the Bessie Moore Service Award from the National Council on Economic Education and the National Association of Economic Educators, the Freedoms Foundation Award for Excellence in Private-Enterprise Education, and the National Federation of Independent Business Foundation Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship and Free-Enterprise Education.
Please contact Harriet Crawford (850-644-4772) or E-mail if you would like to attend this workshop.
Note: Sandwiches and other light refreshments will be served during the workshop.
