Materials integrate social, ecological, and economic issues with an emphasis on real-world applications. Learn to engage your students in contemporary economic issues including global trade, the World Trade Organization, labor disputes, and other their impacts on local communities. Simulations, role plays, analysis, and student-led projects clarify the links between global economic policy, consumer choices, and civic responsibility. Materials integrate social, ecological, and economic issues with an emphasis on real-world applications. Teachers will be introduced to creative assessment projects and ways to evaluate them with rubrics that are consistent with state standards.
Participants receive examples of projects, rubrics, student work, and other handouts.
Travel expenses over 50 miles is extra and negotiable. Half day workshops offered as in-service programs, after school, or Saturdays. Full day workshops offered as in-service programs or Saturdays. We can work with you to custom-design longer programs. Our organization is interested in scheduling a workshop.