January 2013 Workshop: Developing new example activities for Starting Point

Initial Publication Date: November 14, 2012

Prior to ASSA/AEA meetings San Diego, CA, January 3, 2013 in Manchester Grant Hyatt, Betsy B room . By invitation only

Overview

This workshop will bring together a community of economic educators to build the example library at Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics.

The workshop will begin at 10:00 AM on Thursday, January 3, 2013 and end at 4:00 PM. During the workshop we will work collectively to develop economics exercises for the Starting Point web site. By the end of the workshop all participants will have created a draft of at least two new exercises; following the workshop, participants will have several weeks to complete the exercises they have created.

Participants

Workshop schedule

The workshop will begin promptly at 10 AM in the Manchester Grant Hyatt, Betsy B room and end at 4 PM. Please bring a laptop computer. Lunch will be provided.

10 AM Welcome and introductions. Overview of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics

10:30 - 12:00 Collaborative work on teaching examples

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch will be served in the Betsy B room.

1:00 - 1:15 Progress report

1:15 - 2:15 Continue work on teaching examples

2:15 - 2:30 Break

2:30 - 3:30 Continue work on teaching examples

3:30 - 4:00 Report out: next steps

Online Submission Form

Pre-workshop tasks

1. Please register with SERC so that you will have access to development pages at this link.

2. So that we know a little about one another, please complete the participant profile form. After the form is submitted, the information will be used by SERC to create a web page (some of you have already done so. See project web page )

3. Review the pedagogical modules at Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics at the Starting Point opening page. Identify the modules to which you likely will submit your examples (both can be for the same module).

4. Sketch out the teaching examples that you will create on January 3. We will work collaboratively during our time together, receiving feedback from one another. Because of the short time we have together, we'll make the most progress if you arrive at the workshop with draft plans for your two examples.

Reimbursement

  • Hotel and meals: please submit this invoice form with receipts (up to $200). Note: NSF cannot reimburse for alcohol purchases. Hotel: please submit this invoice form (Microsoft Word 21kB Nov12 12) with original receipts (up to $200).
  • We are able to offer $500 stipends paid upon completion of the exercises described above. When both exercises are complete and approved by the project coordinators, complete and submit a W-9 form available here and this invoice (Microsoft Word 20kB Nov12 12)

    Return W-9, invoice and receipts to:

    Mark MaierDepartment of Economics1500 N. Verdugo Road Glendale Community CollegeGlendale, CA 91208

For More Information


Regarding the project or workshop content, please contact:

Mark Maier, Glendale Community College
KimMarie McGoldrick, University of Richmond
Scott Simkins, North Carolina A&T State University

Workshop Background

Support for this workshop comes from a National Science Foundation grant project: Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics. This project created a web-based pedagogic portal for economics instructors, providing extensive information about sixteen different pedagogic practices, as well as a library of teaching examples (exercises) supporting the use of those practices.

The Starting Point web site is maintained by the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College (MN), a partner in our project. We will be using the SERC site to host the exercises you create (click here for an example). While in development, these pages will be private, accessible only to project participants. Upon the author's approval and review by the project staff, they will be made public at the Starting Point site. Authors will receive credit for this publication on the site (see the example linked above).

Workshop Handouts


Workshop Followup

Activity Submission Deadlines using This Online Submission Form

  • First activity submission due February 8, 2013
  • Second activity submission due February 22, 2013

Once submitted we will provide comments on your submission and suggestions for revisions. Please make sure to keep a copy of your activities as Word files. You will need to make your revisions to that document and cut-and-paste into the online submission form again when you submit the final draft.

Workshop Listserv

If you'd like to share ideas with or get feedback from the participants of this workshop group, send email to the workshop group listserv at

sp-econ-nov12@serc.carleton.edu