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The Council for Economic Education is seeking writers for its upcoming publication, Teaching Financial Crises: A Resource for High School Teachers.
Can you:
- Write solid lessons for secondary school teachers?
- Explain complex concepts related to financial crises in a way that would be understood by high school students?
- Maintain an objective approach to sometimes controversial issues?
- Give and take constructive criticism well?
- Work closely with others?
- Keep to deadlines?
If interested, READ MORE.
CEE would be interested in considering you for its writing team.
If you would like to be considered please email Chris Caltabiano at the below email address by November 11. Include in your email a writing sample—preferably a lesson plan, or material related to financial crises—your CV, and any other information you feel would describe your credentials for being a part of this team. Also note which of the below lesson topics best match your skills and knowledge.
CEE will contact the writers it has selected by November 25. Writing team members will be assigned topics—up to two lessons—soon after. First drafts of lessons must be completed by January 31, 2010, to meet a publication date of June 2010. All writers will receive compensation for their work.
About the publication
Teaching Financial Crises will be an eight-lesson teacher resource guide designed for instructors to teach their high school students about topics related to financial crises. This curriculum will be a standards-based set of lessons that apply active learning approaches to critical issues related to financial crises and the evolving economic deterioration that has accompanied this highly visible set of events.
It will be aligned to economics and personal finance educational content standards; it will be written in an evergreen context that will allow the lessons to be of continual use—while germane to teaching about the current crisis it will not simply be applicable to current events topics in classrooms (which ultimately become outdated); and it will be comprised of a variety of approaches to encourage higher order thinking skills designed to assist students to engage in effective decision-making, undertake reasoned approaches to economic analysis, efficiently solve complex problems, and apply critical thinking skills. All lessons will be constructed using CEE’s standard format, including introduction, lesson description, concepts, objectives, content standards, time required, materials, lesson procedures, closure, assessment, visuals, and activities.
The eight lesson topics are as follows:
1) The Financial Crisis of 1907 and the Financial Crisis of 2007: A comparison
2) Data Analysis: How the numbers of U.S. economic performance in 2008 and 2009 compare to other periods in history
3) Manias, Bubbles, and Panics in World History
4) The Japan Comparison
5) Monetary Policy in the Recent Financial Crisis
6) The Role of Housing in the Recent Financial Crisis
7) The Instruments and Institutions of Modern Financial Markets
8) Understanding Financial Markets in 2007?2009
Christopher Caltabiano
Vice President for Program Administration
Council for Economic Education (formerly National Council on Economic Education)
Teaching Opportunity®
122 East 42 Street, Suite 2600
New York, NY 10168
P: 212.730.1109
ccaltabiano@councilforeconed.org |
