Bringing the World Home: International Economics in Georgia Schools

GCEE offers local, regional and statewide workshops for teachers and provides materials to help students learn the issues surrounding international economics.

Support for Special Programs

Achievers International-Georgia, where Georgia students partner with schools around the world to produce and trade products.

International Business Program at North Atlanta High, where students run their own Atlanta-Caribbean Trading Company.

Stock Market Game for Russian high school students in Moscow.

International Baccalaureate teacher support and instructional materials.

Workshops and Materials

Economies in Transition: Command to Market is a set of ten lessons involving students in hands-on activities for understanding the economic principles and issues related to the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market-based system. Each lesson focuses on a specific aspect of reform, such as privatization, inflation and unemployment.

From Plan to Market draws on examples from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet bloc and Asia. Lessons are based on The World Development Report 1996. This teaching resource contains interesting simulations and activities to explain the challenges facing former command economies as they struggle to join the world economy.

Focus: International Economics is a set of lesson plans with a variety of instructional strategies. School-to-Career workshops for high school teachers emphasize conceptual understanding of absolute and comparative advantage and examine questions surrounding free trade agreements, barriers to trade, exchange rates and the U.S. Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments.

International News Journal is a program in which middle-grades students form a classroom corporation, research and write about a country, and then design, produce, market and analyze profits from their international journal.

Workshops are available for teachers on topics such as European economies in transition, Eastern Europe, the economic demise of the Soviet Union and the European Union and the Euro.

Bringing Home New Knowledge

The Georgia Council has participated in several study tours with Georgia teachers, most notably to Russia, Ukraine and Germany. Educators learn more about international economies and are able to bring their first-hand experiences into their classrooms and train other teachers.