The Stavros Center hosts several workshops and events throughout the year. We encourage teachers to attend workshops to broaden their horizons.
Workshop: Creative Teaching Ideas for Your Basic Economics Course
| When: | Friday, December 2, 2005 (8:30 AM to 4:30 PM) |
| For Whom: | Teachers of Principles-level courses |
| Where: | Florida State University (Bellamy Building; DeVoe Moore Center Conference Room 150E) |
Register Online at
https://learningforlife.fsu.edu/learningforlife/register/start.cfm?s_mstr_seq_num=6464
Register by Mail
Use this form if you register by mail
Hotel Information
If You need hotel accomodations, we recommend Holiday Inn Select, 316 W. Tennessee, (850) 222-9555 ($65) or Doubletree Hotel, 101 S. Adams St, (850)224-5000 ($92). In order to assure these rates, you must make your reservations by November 1 and ask for the Stavros Center conference rate
Additional Information
If you have any questions or would like additional information, contact James Gwartney (Phone: 850-644-7645);
E-mail: jgwartne@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
Workshop Schedule (Friday, December 2)
| Morning 9:00 AM - 12:10 PM | |
| Session 1 | William C. Wood " Teaching Aggregate Thinking: Content and Tricks" |
| Session 2 | Gail Mitchell Hoyt " A Fresh Look at the Daily Quiz As A tool to Engage Students in Microeconomics Principles Courses" |
| 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM | Lunch |
| Afternoon 1:10 PM - 4:15 PM | |
| Session 3 | Paul Romer " Homework + Experiments + Newspaper Articles = Active Learning " |
| Session 4 | James Gwartney and Joe Calhoun " Using Video Clips To Enrich Your Basic Economic Class" Concluding Panel and Discussion Session Leaders will make a brief summary remarks and workshop participants will share their ideas and comments |
ABOUT THE SESSION LEADERS
William C. Wood is currently Professor of Economics at James Madison University and the director of JMU’s Center for Economic Education. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia in 1980 and has held faculty positions at Vanderbilt University, the University of Virginia and Bridgewater College. Wood was the recipient of teaching awards at the University of Virginia and at James Madison University, where he was the 2001-2002 Distinguished Teacher in the College of Business. He was named in 2002 as an inaugural winner of the Southern Economic Association’s Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award. Wood is also a past recipient of the Alpha Kappa Psi-Clifford D. Spangler award for research in risk and insurance and the Best Paper award for the Journal of Private Enterprise. He is the author of three books, more than 20 scholarly articles, and national economic education materials for school and adult audiences.
Gail Mitchell Hoyt is a Professor of Economics at the University of Kentucky. Prior to coming to Kentucky in 1994, she taught at the University of Richmond. She is the teaching assistant coordinator for principles courses, and directs the teacher training of graduate students in the Department of Economics. Gail has won various teaching awards including the University of Kentucky Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Alumni Association Great Teacher Award. She teaches Contemporary Economic Issues, Microeconomic Principles, Statistics for Business and Economics, and the Economics of Poverty and Welfare Programs. Her research interests include the economic analysis of substance use as it pertains to the workplace and various government welfare programs.
Paul M. Romer is the STANCO 25 Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution. He is the founder of Aplia, a company that develops and machine grades homework assignments and other tools designed to increase student involvement and enrich economics classes. The Aplia programs are particularly valuable to instructors teaching in a large lecture setting. A leading developer of the new growth theory, Professor Romer was named one of America's 25 most influential people by Time magazine in 1997. His doctoral degree in economics is from the University of Chicago (1983) and he has also studied math, physics, and economics at the University of Chicago and MIT. He has an uncanny ability to combine a cutting edge research career with the development of practical tools to improve teaching and stimulate student interest in economics.
