Session description: In this highly engaging and fast-paced workshop participants will experience a variety of activities, strategies, and tips for helping students learn economics. Econ Express, a free online resource that allows users to learn practice and assess 51 economic concepts, is used as the launching point for classroom demonstrations and discussions for topics like marginal cost, inflation, budgeting, and many more. Participants will receive lessons and resources that can be put to use immediately in their own classrooms."
Speaker bio:
A 2012 Georgia Economics Teacher of the Year, Chris Cannon has been a teacher since 2002, teaching economics at Morrow High School in Clayton County, Sandy Creek High School, and McIntosh High Schools in Fayette County. Chris served as the Social Studies Program Specialist at the Georgia Department of Education from 2006-2008 and was also a Teacher in Residence at GCEE in 2015.
As Associate Director of GCEE, he writes and conducts workshops for K-12 teachers around the state and at national conferences. Dr. Cannon creates K-12 lessons and activities for topics such as personal finance, manufacturing, the Atlanta Braves, international trade, and more. He also writes fundraising grants, develops online materials and videos, manages GCEE’s Rural Georgia Initiative, and coordinates the Economics and Personal Finance Challenges.
Dr. Cannon is also the Council’s resident expert on heavy metal music, the Legend of Zelda, and monster trucks.
Note the room change: This workshop will be at Kent Campus (3939 Roosevelt Blvd), Building F, room F128b
