Presenter: Dr. Steven L. Miller

Is Emeritus Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University. He graduated from Bowling Green State University with a Bachelor of Liberal Studies (double major in economics and political science) and a B.S.Ed. in social studies education. For more information please click here.

Content: The key ideas of scarcity, opportunity cost, goals, and trade-offs are essential both in economics and civics. Participants in this session will explore using these concepts to strengthen decision-making and some classroom strategies that can be used in, or adapted for, students from grade four through high school. The webinar will present these concepts and then focus on practical instructional lessons. Greater theoretical depth about these ideas and the connection between economics and civics can be found in Nexus: Connections between Economics and Civics.

Organized by: The Inter-American Teacher Education Network and The Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices  

When: Thursday March 14th, 2013 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. (Time expressed in local time of Washington, D.C.).

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Student Intern Diaries

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