Jennifer Rhoads

Being Aware of Health Care: Using Cooperative Learning to Synthesize and Communicate U.S. Health Care Reform Issues part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
This is a three-part project spanning five weeks that uniquely interweaves individual and cooperative learning in the context of health care reform and the 2008 United States presidential campaign.

Exploring and Explaining Determinants of Supply and Demand: Utilizing the Think-Pair-Share Technique part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
This is a two-part activity that implements an extension of the "think-pair-share" cooperative learning technique to study the determinants of supply and demand through hypothetical and real world examples.

Jennifer Rhoads part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:About this Project:Project Participants
Biographical profile page of Jennifer Rhoads, a graduate student in economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, highlighting her academic background, teaching experience in microeconomics and health economics, involvement in the Teaching Innovations Program, and contributions to pedagogical development in economics education, particularly in cooperative learning strategies.