Economics

1. To prepare teachers for teaching AP Economics through an intensive review of curriculum content, textbook evaluations and time management.
2. To familiarize participants with "degree of difficulty" assignments necessary for students to do well on the AP examination as well as active learning exercises intended to inspire student participation.
3. To help guide participants in teaching students applications of economic concepts to the "real world"
4. To share with participants how the examination is graded and how to prepare students for success of the examination itself.
5. To model for participant's lessons of challenging economic concepts, including: graphing of market models, externalities, Aggregate Demand and Supply, Monetary policy, loanable funds market, MRP and others.
6. To clearly identify for teachers the need to know concepts and models, as well as provide guidelines for those concepts which will enrich the AP classroom.

Throughout our short four days together, my goal is for each participant to come away better prepared to teach AP Economics. This objective will be achieved through an intensive review of specific content, as listed in the Acorn Book, published by the College Board. Lessons on more difficult concepts will be modeled. Second, participants will study the design of the currently available part two questions and learn the use of rubrics in the grading process. Third, a session will be dedicated to setting up the course, either for a single semester or for a year. Various texts and ancillary materials will be available for evaluation. Fourth, each participant will be responsible for creating a lesson, or problem set. And finally, we will establish a network of support for teachers seeking help in any content area.