Bill Goffe

Calculating Economic Growth and Inflation from FRED part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students are given a number of variables to retrieve from FRED and they're asked to calculate both inflation and economic growth. Thus, they must they must find the correct variable, perform the correct ...

Circular Flow -- Equivalence of Income, Spending, and Production part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
In this activity students should come to understand a key part of the circular flow -- why income, production, and spending have the same dollar value.

Plotting Inflation and a Recession in P-Y Space (an Essential Skill for AD-AS Analysis) part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students learn to move between two representations of the same phenomena-time series and a graph-to show recession and inflation, an essential skill for connecting AD/AS analysis to time series plots of macro ...

U.S. Economic Growth and Inflation Since 1970 part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students are given a number of variables to retrieve from FRED and from them they identify the behavior of U.S. inflation and economic growth since 1970.

Discovering Economic Preconceptions using Clickers part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Classroom Response Systems:Examples
Student preconceptions in the economics classroom are an under-appreciated element of teaching. Here we describe how clickers can easily be used to determine student preconceptions and thus inform the instructor on the information that students bring to the classroom.

Clickers As an Alternative to Scantrons part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Classroom Response Systems:Examples
Clickers can be used to replace Scantron forms for exams. This can save considerable time and effort when it comes to recording scores.

Using Clickers to Inductively Construct Economic Concepts part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Classroom Response Systems:Examples
This technique reverses the usual order of definitions and examples used in class to one of presenting an example or examples first and then having students "discover" the concept when asked with carefully constructed clicker questions.