Workshops

Overview

Workshops
Content and creativity to help you teach economics and personal finance

The Georgia Council on Economic Education offers workshops that provide K-12 teachers economics and personal finance content and creative ways to teach it. For most non-virtual workshops, there are no registration fees, lesson materials are included, lunch is provided, and substitute reimbursement is offered. 

We use Zoom as our virtual workshop platform. To get the most out of your virtual professional learning experience, please refer to our GCEE Technology Guide for Virtual Programs.

All virtual workshops listed here are available to all Georgia K-12 educators, but registration priority is given to specific school system teachers when indicated in the workshop descriptions.

To see an example of a Georgia Council workshop and its impact on teachers, check out this video.

To access previously recorded virtual workshops, click here.  NOTE:  Not all GCEE workshops are recorded.

Click the link below for the master list of Fall 2021 workshops (posted in August).

Workshop Grades K–5 Grades 9–12 Grades 6–8

Assessing Student Knowledge in Economics (VIRTUAL)
Grades 4-12
Thursday, June 17, 2021
10:00am-11:00am

A key element of teaching economics is understanding what students know and can do with the content.  This workshop features segments about writing effective test items, designing rubrics and delivering meaningful feedback as well as other important assessment practices.  The workshop will primarily focus on the Economics standards at each grade level.  Teachers analyze, evaluate, and create assessments in the workshop that can be used immediately in their classroom. 

Audience:  Teachers, Grades 4-12

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Workshop Grades 9–12

Money: The True Story of a Made Up Thing (Virtual)
Grades 9-12
Saturday, August 14, 2021
12:30pm-3:30pm

We all use money in our daily lives, but few of us actually ponder how and why it works. Jacob Goldstein, cohost of NPR’s Planet Money, has done the heavy lifting for us in his enthralling account, Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing. This event will focus on the origin, functions, and potential future of money. Jacob Goldstein will share highlights from his book and economics educators will demonstrate a variety of original classroom activities to help students understand the nature of money.

The co-sponsors of this event – the California Council on Economic Education, the Georgia Council on Economic Education, and the Thomas R. Brown Foundation – will provide attendees with digital instructional resources and a $25 Grubhub credit.

The first 100 registrants receive a complimentary copy of Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing.

Click here to register.    

(Registration is processed by the Thomas R. Brown Foundation in Arizona)

Workshop Grades K–5

Teaching Scarcity and Choices – K-1 (VIRTUAL)
Grades K-1
Monday, June 21, 2021
10:00am-11:00am

Designed especially for kindergarten and first grade, this virtual workshop gives teachers helpful online and face-to-face strategies to teach the foundational economic concepts of scarcity and choice. All resources presented will be shared digitally with all those that register and attend. There is no registration fee, and all resources used will be shared with participants at no financial cost to them. 

Audience: Teachers, Grades K and 1

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