              | Workshops Continued 10/10: Barton College, Wilson-- Virtual Economics 4.0. A NEW EDITION of Virtual Economics!9/7: Pitt County-- Virtual Economics 4.0. The digital economics library that provides all the lessons you need for effective economics instruction into your classroom. Webinars: Introduction to the Stock Market Game™. Now more than ever, schools are looking for ways to meet higher education standards while working within tighter budgets. To meet this challenge, schools are seeking more effective educational tools that both motivate students and support teachers in building lifelong learning skills. One tool that meets these requirements in an innovative yet time tested way is The Stock Market Game™ program. Since 1977, the program has given educators a way to improve the learning experience in thousands of classrooms. Teachers have successfully used The Stock Market Game™ program to enliven core academic subjects — including Math, Social Studies, and Language Arts — and research has shown there's no better way to learn the importance of saving and investing. The Stock Market Game™ program offers a vast library of learning materials correlated to national voluntary and state educational standards in Math, Business Education, Economics, English/Language Arts, Technology, Social Studies and Family and Consumer Sciences. This resource has inspired many teachers to incorporate the program into classes in creative ways — at all levels, from fourth grade to college, all across the curriculum. Funding for this program is through the generous support of Fidelity Financial and the SIFMA Foundation. Register by clicking on the date of interest! 9/21 - 5:00 - 6:00 P.M. 9/28 4:30 - 5:30 P.M. 10/5 4:30 - 5:30 P.M. Stock Market Game™ introduction to various economic lessons and concepts. 10/18 4:30 - 5:30 pm: Session 4: “Tips for Winning”. The info you need to keep your edge on the competition. Register! 10/13 4:30 - 5:30 pm: Session 3: “Best Practices Part I: Making the Most of the SMG”. This session will seek to pass on the experience of veteran SMG teachers to those new to the game. Participants will get tips for streamlining the use of the game in their classrooms—how to get the most from your minute. Register! 10/6 4:30 - 5:30 pm: Session 2: “Team Research: How an SMG group Works”. Session 2 gives tips to teachers for how to organize groups, how much lab time to use, how to structure time for the SMG (there are more ways than one!), and how to direct the students toward meaningful financial research. Register! 9/29 4:00 - 5:00 pm: Session 1: “Investing 101: The Economy and You”. This session is designed for teachers who would like basic training with investor education. Not only is it a “how to” guide for SMG, but it also serves as a roadmap for a person trying to find his or her way in the world economy. 8/22: Charlotte-- Virtual Economics 4.0. A NEW EDITION of Virtual Economics! 8/19: Holmes High School, Edenton-- Virtual Economics 4.0. A NEW EDITION of Virtual Economics! 8/15: Northwest Cabarrus High School-- Virtual Economics 4.0. A NEW EDITION of Virtual Economics! 8/3: Phillip O. Berry Academy in Charlotte-- Virtual Economics 4.0. A NEW EDITION of Virtual Economics! 8/2: Charlotte-- Virtual Economics 4.0. A NEW EDITION of Virtual Economics! 6/28: Durham, Alamance, Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Orange County Schools (DPS Staff Development Center)-- Virtual Economics 4.0. A NEW EDITION of Virtual Economics! 6/23: Wilmington-- Teaching Globalization in High School 6/21—6/22: Wake County, Virtual Economics 4.0. A NEW EDITION of Virtual Economics! 1/20, 2/3, 2/10: Cumberland County—Economics in Civics and Government. A must-have for teachers who want to improve their instruction in Civics and Economics. Each lesson is packed with activities, simulations, assessments, great lesson ideas, and ways to integrate economic reasoning into political science. Each workshop participant will receive a free copy of the “Economics in Civics and Government” curriculum, which retails at $60. To register, contact Cris Higginbotham at crishigginbotham@ccs.k12.nc.us. 1/20, 2/3, 2/10: Cumberland County— Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History. This resource uses a unique mystery-solving approach to teach U.S. economic history to your high school students. These activity-based lessons give you a new, refreshing way to meet your U.S. History content goals, and infuse eye-opening economics material at the same time. Each lesson plan is arranged chronologically and covers key economic and historical events, so you can easily integrate the lesson plans into your curriculum as you move through your U.S. History textbook. It's the best way to engage all your students in U.S. economic history, regardless of their interest or learning levels. All participants receive a free copy of the Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History publication, which retails at $60. To register, contact Cris Higginbotham at crishigginbotham@ccs.k12.nc.us. 2/24, 2/25: The NC Council Social Studies Conference The North Carolina Council on Economic Education. Your contact for everything you need pertaining to economics, personal finance and entrepreneurship education. The Master of Arts in Economics and Entrepreneurship Education. An innovative program through the University of Delaware for training future leaders in economic, personal finance and entrepreneurship education. The Stock Market Game. The SMG has been a favorite in classrooms since 1970, but it has only recently been shown conclusively to raise test scores in economics, personal finance, and even math—across grade level, race, gender or ability lines. What Personal Finance Is About. A must-have resource for anyone teaching personal financial literacy. Serves as a starting-point, organizer, and mini-textbook for personal finance. Attendees receive a free copy. Financial Fitness for Life. This comprehensive personal finance curriculum has available versions for any age level, K-12. It is developmentally appropriate, moving from the concrete to the abstract, as well as fun, challenging and rewarding. Furthermore, since it includes parent books, it reaches the whole family. Available in Spanish. Attendees receive a free copy. Teaching Financial Literacy—A New Online Training System for Teachers. This is part of an initiative from DPI and the NCCEE for universal mastery of personal finance concepts and teaching materials for NC teachers. These online modules focus on helping teachers round out their skill set while connecting them with various resources for the teaching of personal finance in their classrooms. And CEUs are available! 2/22: Cumberland County –Middle School Geography: Focus on Economics. The perfect resource for middle school teachers who want to reach their geography goals, while adding a broader view of the world through economics. Each participant of the workshop will receive a free copy of Middle School Geography: Focus on Economics, which retails at $35. To register, contact Cris Higginbotham at crishigginbotham@ccs.k12.nc.us. 3/8: Cumberland County – Wide World of Trade If today’s students are going to succeed in today’s world, they will need to understand interdependence and globalization. This resource is full of fun, active lessons that give middle school students the groundwork necessary to understand an increasingly complex world. If today’s students are going to succeed in today’s world, they will need to understand interdependence and globalization. This resource is full of fun, active lessons that give middle school students the groundwork necessary to understand an increasingly complex world. Each participant of the workshop will receive a free copy of Wide World of Trade, which retails at $28. To register, contact Cris Higginbotham at crishigginbotham@ccs.k12.nc.us. 3/14: Cumberland County – Virtual Economics 3.0: If you like the Council’s curricula and can’t get enough of them, this is the resource for you. VE 3.0 is a library of more than 1,200 economics, personal finance and entrepreneurship lessons, complete with a convenient search engine. Furthermore, the disc includes interactive multimedia demonstrations for classroom use. Each participant will receive a free copy of Virtual Economics 3.0, which retails at $100. To register, contact Cris Higginbotham at crishigginbotham@ccs.k12.nc.us. 3/31 (continued from 3/14): Cumberland County – Virtual Economics 3.0 and The Stock Market Game. The SMG has been a favorite in classrooms since 1970, but it has only recently been shown conclusively to raise test scores in economics, personal finance, and even math—across grade level, race, gender or ability lines. This simulation prepares students in all the 21st-century skills, and perhaps most importantly, large majorities of students report enjoying the experience. Learn what the motivation of fun and competition can do for your test scores! The perfect resource for middle school teachers who want to reach their geography goals, but add a broader view of the world through economics. To register, contact Cris Higginbotham at crishigginbotham@ccs.k12.nc.us. 3/28: Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History. This resource uses a unique mystery-solving approach to teach U.S. economic history to your high school students. These activity-based lessons give you a new, refreshing way to meet your U.S. History content goals, and infuse eye-opening economics material at the same time. Each lesson plan is arranged chronologically and covers key economic and historical events, so you can easily integrate the lesson plans into your curriculum as you move through your U.S. History textbook. It's the best way to engage all your students in U.S. economic history, regardless of their interest or learning levels. All participants receive a free copy of the Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History publication, which retails at $60. To register, contact Patty Grant at pgrant@wsfcs.k12.nc.us. 3/28: Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, Financing Your Future. Financing Your Future is a complete personal finance program on DVD for high school teachers and their students. This personal finance program contains five videos that cover topics such as investing in one's own human capital, developing a banking relationship, understanding credit and debt, and creating a budget. Each video is complemented with three standards-based classroom lesson plans that teachers, parents and mentors can use to reinforce the concepts demonstrated in the videos. To register, contact Patty Grant at pgrant@wsfcs.k12.nc.us. 3/28: Winston-Salem/Forsyth County—Middle School Geography: Focus on Economics. The perfect resource for middle school teachers who want to reach their geography goals, but add a broader view of the world through economics. To register for the WSFCS session on 3/28, contact Patty Grant at pgrant@wsfcs.k12.nc.us. To register for Guilford County on 4/14, contact Kimberly Ibach at ibachk@gcsnc.com. 3/28: Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, Wide World of Trade. If today’s students are going to succeed in today’s world, they will need to understand interdependence and globalization. This resource is full of fun, active lessons that give middle school students the groundwork necessary to understand an increasingly complex world. To register, contact Patty Grant at pgrant@wsfcs.k12.nc.us. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County 3/28 and Guilford County 4/7 Teaching Economics Using Children’s Literature. This is a standard go-to resource for any teacher who wants to integrate personal finance and economics into the normal curriculum. Includes opportunities to teach math and language arts. To register for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, contact Patty Grant at pgrant@wsfcs.k12.nc.us. To register for the Guilford County session on 4/7, contact Kim Ibach at ibachk@gcsnc.com. 4/7: Guilford County, The Great Depression Curriculum. A free resource created by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Uses contemporary economic research to deliver active lessons on the causes and experiences of the 1930s. Includes primary documents and classroom simulations. To register, contact Jamie Davis at davisj4@gcsnc.com. 4/14: Guilford County—Middle School World Geography. To register, contact Jamie Davis at davisj4@gcsnc.com. 4/14: Guilford County—Teaching Economics Using Children’s Literature. To register, contact Kim Ibach at ibachk@gcsnc.com. Asheville, 4/26, Charlotte, 4/27, Wilson, 5/3, Wilmington, 5/4 Free Workshop for Civics & Economics teachers: 6/7: Chapel Hill: McNair Scholars workshop—“The Next Step.” This program was created to help AmeriCorps members manage their stipends, and has been adapted for prospective graduate students, who live on approximately the same income. It incorporates activities to help participants evaluate their own choice-making habits with regard to credit, debt, spending, saving, and planning. It will also provide guidance to participants for creating a budget based on their projected graduate income. The goal of this workshop is not so much an information session as it is a time for students to think about how they think—and therefore to start making appropriate individual plans for their near future. 6/13: Rocky Mount, Understanding Economics in Civics and Government. A must-have for teachers who want to improve their instruction in Civics and Economics. Each lesson is packed with activities, simulations, assessments, great lesson ideas, and ways to integrate economic reasoning into political science. Virtual Economics 3.0: If you like the Council’s curricula and can’t get enough of them, this is the resource for you. VE 3.0 is a library of more than 1,200 economics, personal finance and entrepreneurship lessons, complete with a convenient search engine. Furthermore, the disc includes interactive multimedia demonstrations for classroom use. Retails at $100—workshop participants receive one copy for free! Teaching Economics Using Children’s Literature. This is a standard go-to resource for any teacher who wants to integrate personal finance and economics into the normal curriculum. Includes opportunities to teach math and language arts. Wide World of Trade: If today’s students are going to succeed in today’s world, they will need to understand interdependence and globalization. This resource is full of fun, active lessons that give middle school students the groundwork necessary to understand an increasingly complex world. If today’s students are going to succeed in today’s world, they will need to understand interdependence and globalization. This resource is full of fun, active lessons that give middle school students the groundwork necessary to understand an increasingly complex world. All attendees receive a free copy of the resource for the workshop—that’s at least $30 worth of free stuff. To register, contact Cathy Wittman at cgwittman@nrms.k12.nc.us. 3/14-6/17: Online Course Teaching Financial Literacy (TFL) For complete details download flyer and to register email Stephen Day at sday@nccee.org, 6/15—6/17: Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, Teaching Financial Literacy Summer Institute featuring Financial Fitness for Life! With one day for each grade level (elementary, middle, high school), you are certain to find a workshop just right for you. This workshop will include a variety of teaching techniques and free materials designed to get you started teaching personal finance. Get a head start on the new standards! 6/15—K-5 Financial Fitness for Life. 6/16—6-8 Financial Fitness for Life. 6/17—High School Financial Fitness for Life. Each attendee receives a free copy of this newly-revised resource! This workshop and the accompanying materials are made available to teachers through the generous support of the Bank of America Charitable Foundation and the Council for Economic Education. To register, contact Patty Grant at pgrant@wsfcs.k12.nc.us. 6/20: Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, Mathematics and Economics: Connections for Life. In today's era of interdisciplinary studies, this new title created specifically for math teachers shows how mathematics concepts and knowledge can be used to develop economic and personal financial understandings. Mathematics teachers need not have a background in economics in order to implement the curriculum. To register, contact Vincent Snipes at snipesv@wssu.edu. 6/21—6/22: Wake County, Virtual Economics 4.0. A NEW EDITION of Virtual Economics! For Civics and Economics teachers from Wake County Public Schools. To register, contact Tiffany Stuart at tstuart2@wcpss.net. Discover an all-in-one CD-ROM --Virtual Economics-- your one-stop resource to print-based, web-based and multimedia resources. With over 1200 K-12 economics and personal finance lesson plans and 51 concepts your search for lessons has just come to an end. Plus, these boredom-proof resources give your students an active learning approach with interactive simulations, role playing activities and multimedia clips. VE 4.0 has been upgraded to include more resources and enhance usability. All teachers that attend receive this $100-value resource for free! This workshop and the accompanying materials are made available to teachers through the generous support of State Farm and the Council for Economic Education. Cumberland County—1/20, 2/3, 2/10. Economics in Civics and Government—A must-have for principals who want to improve their school’s NCLB scores in Civics and Economics. Get your new C&E teachers some training and ready-to-use resources! Each workshop participant will receive a free copy of the “Economics in Civics and Government” curriculum, which retails at $60. To register, contact Cris Higginbotham at crishigginbotham@ccs.k12.nc.us. Cumberland County—1/20, 2/3, 2/10. Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History—This resource uses a unique mystery-solving approach to teach U.S. economic history to your high school students. These activity-based lessons give you a new, refreshing way to meet your U.S. History content goals, and infuse eye-opening economics material at the same time. Each lesson plan is arranged chronologically and covers key economic and historical events, so you can easily integrate the lesson plans into your curriculum as you move through your U.S. History textbook. It's the best way to engage all your students in U.S. economic history, regardless of their interest or learning levels. All participants receive a free copy of the Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History publication, which retails at $60. To register, contact Cris Higginbotham at crishigginbotham@ccs.k12.nc.us. Cumberland County – 2/22 To register, contact Cris Higginbotham at crishigginbotham@ccs.k12.nc.us. The NC Council Social Studies Conference – 2/24, 2/25. The North Carolina Council on Economic Education—Your contact for everything you need pertaining to economics, personal finance and entrepreneurship education. The Master of Arts in Economics and Entrepreneurship Education—An innovative program through the University of Delaware for training future leaders in economic, personal finance and entrepreneurship education. The Stock Market Game—The SMG has been a favorite in classrooms since 1970, but it has only recently been shown conclusively to raise test scores in economics, personal finance, and even math—across grade level, race, gender or ability lines. What Personal Finance Is About—A must-have resource for anyone teaching personal financial literacy. Serves as a starting-point, organizer, and mini-textbook for personal finance. Attendees receive a free copy. Financial Fitness for Life—This comprehensive personal finance curriculum has available versions for any age level, K-12. It is developmentally appropriate, moving from the concrete to the abstract, as well as fun, challenging and rewarding. Furthermore, since it includes parent books, it reaches the whole family. Available in Spanish. Attendees receive a free copy. Teaching Financial Literacy—A New Online Training System for Teachers. This is part of an initiative from DPI and the NCCEE for universal mastery of personal finance concepts and teaching materials for NC teachers. These online modules focus on helping teachers round out their skill set while connecting them with various resources for the teaching of personal finance in their classrooms. And CEUs are available! Spring 2011
Getting Started with the SMG - February 24th, 2011 4:00 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. Register Maximizing the SMG Experience: Session 1: “Investing 101: The Economy and You” – Tuesday, January 25, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p. Session 2: “Team Research: How an SMG group Works” - Tuesday, February 1, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Session 2 gives tips to teachers for how to organize groups, how much lab time to use, how to structure time for the SMG (there are more ways than one!), and how to direct the students toward meaningful financial research. Session 3: “Best Practices Part I: Making the Most of the SMG” - Tuesday, February 9, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. This session will seek to pass on the experience of veteran SMG teachers to those new to the game. Participants will get tips for streamlining the use of the game in their classrooms—how to get the most from your minute. Session 4: “Tips for Winning” - Tuesday, February 15, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The info you need to keep your edge on the competition! Fall 2010 Getting Started With the SMG This session includes:
September 2, 2010 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. September 9, 2010 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. September 16, 2010 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Sessions and Registration: Session 1: “Investing 101: The Economy and You” Session 1: “Investing 101: The Economy and You” This session is designed for teachers who would like basic training with investor education. Not only is it a “how to” guide for SMG, but it also serves as a roadmap for a person trying to find his or her way in the world economy. Be sure to visit the NCCEE booth at the NCCSS Conference and attend NCCEE presented sessions for making economic education relevant and easy to teach. February 24-26, 2010. | |
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