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Resources And Professional Development

For information on the opportunities listed below, contact Nancy Hanlon Harrison by e-mail or at 815-753-0356.

Conferences

The IASET Spring Conference will be held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on Friday, May 4, 2007. Economic Bubbles: Housing, Stocks and other Financial Manias will be the topic discussed, with featured speakers including Gail Jarvis Marks, personal finance columnist from the Chicago Tribune; Tom Corfman, senior real estate reporter from Crain’s Chicago Business; Francois Velde, Economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; and Marty Paul, State Coordinator of The Stock Market Game™ program. For more information, or to register, contact Sheryl Szot Gallaher, GSU Office on Economic Education, 708-534-4926 or s-gallaher@govst.edu.

2007 Annual Conference of NCEE/ NAEE/ GATE

October 3-6 marks the date for the 2007 Annual Conference of the National Council on Economic Education/ National Association of Economic Educators/ Global Association of Teachers of Economics. The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Denver.  This is the largest nationwide conference focusing on K-12 economic education featuring the latest in curriculum development, professional development workshop sessions, and unique networking opportunities for economic educators at all levels. Registration information is available at www.ncee.net/conference/ .

Save the Date! Jump$tart Coalition Third Annual Financial Literacy Conference

The Illinois Jump$tart Coalition will hold its Third Annual Financial Literacy Conference for Teachers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on Wednesday, November 14, 2007.  The Illinois Council on Economic Education, along with several other leading professional development providers in the field, will be presenting the latest and greatest curriculum in financial literacy.

Teacher Workshops

For the most up-to-date listing of workshops available from ICEE's network of Centers, visit the professional development pages of the ICEE web site or contact your school's Center for Economic Education.

Curriculum

For more information on the following, visit the NCEE store.

"Financing Your Future: A Complete Personal Finance Program" on DVD for high school teachers and their students

This new personal finance curriculum includes five video segments designed to compliment 15 companion lesson plans and activities that provide high school students with an understanding of the importance of financial planning, smart decision making, banking relationships, and credit management.  The DVD provides multiple lesson plans from which to choose, brief summaries of the videos, a glossary of key terms, a test bank of questions, and correlations to national standards in economics, personal finance, and mathematics.

"Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics"

This is a new curriculum piece that reintroduces an ethical dimension to the study of economics.  The ten lessons pose provocative questions about various multi-dimensional topics including the morality of markets, the efficiency and equity in health care, the meaning of justice and many more.  The lessons utilize demonstration, discussion, simulation, and role play and ultimately ask the students to develop the critical-thinking skills necessary to explore economic and public-policy issues within a wider moral context.

"Test of Understanding College Economics" (TUCE-4)

The TUCE, now available in this fourth edition, was first developed forty years ago, and has an extensive history of use by teachers and researchers involved in economic education.