Jul 13 2008
Welker’s daily links 07/12/2008
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Environment and the Economy | A Curriculum from the Foundation for Teaching Economics
FTE’s The Environment and the Economy has a triple focus: economics content, economic reasoning, and developing a critical thinking/teaching model:
Content: the economic content perspective on environmental issues;
Reasoning: employing economic reasoning to better understand environmental issues and behavior;
Pedagogy: modeling an intellectual approach to controversial issues.
About the author: Jason Welker is a teacher at Zurich International School in Switzerland, where he teaches Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Economics. In addition to maintaining numerous online resources for economics student and educators, Jason developed the online version of the IB Economics course for Virtual High School and is currently authoring a textbook for IB Economics students for Pearson Baccalaureate which will be available in Spring of 2011. His economics student wiki won the 2007 "Best Educational Wiki" award from the "EduBlog Awards". Related posts:
Do you like what you read on this blog? The author is currently working on an Economics textbook that will be available to order in Spring 2011. For more information, click above.
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