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Workshop Title: High School Government and Economics

Audience: High School Government and Economics teachers

Participants will learn exciting new ways to teach economics and to integrate economics into government classes. We will explore lessons in Sports Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Understanding Fiscal Responsibility.

Workshop Title: Elementary Math and PFL

Audience: K-5 teachers

Math and economics TEKS are integral to the elementary curriculum. This workshop will provide examples of how you can introduce student-centered basic economic concepts that are reinforced through math activities. You will also discover how a collection of children's stories can give your classroom an instant economic boost at the same time infusing more reading comprehension and language arts skills. Come have fun with us!

Workshop Title: TEKS and the Challenges

Audience: 6th-12th grade teachers - Math, CTE, Social Studies

Learn how to coach your students to success in the Economics Challenge and Personal Finance Challenge competitions, all while meeting the required standards in Texas economics and financial literacy strands.

Workshop Title: Stock Market Game™

Audience: 4th-12th grade teachers - Math, CTE, Social Studies, G/T

Engage, Explore, Educate! Teachers consistently tell us about the positive influence our programs have on their students. The educational impact of the SIFMA Foundation's Stock Market Game™ is unmatched, with proven increases in student attendance, engagement and class participation, and improved academic performance and financial behavior.

Workshop Title: Stock Market Game™

Audience: Middle School Math Teachers

Engage, Explore, Educate! Teachers consistently tell us about the positive influence our programs have on their students. The educational impact of the SIFMA Foundation's Stock Market Game™ is unmatched, with proven increases in student attendance, engagement and class participation, and improved academic performance and financial behavior.

Workshop Title: Teaching Economics Through Sports for High School Social Studies and CTE

Audience: High School Teachers, Grades 9-12

Connect with your students and teach where they are - on the field, on the court, or in the pool. Come explore lessons for teaching economics concepts through the lens of sports - think monopoly, free agency, entrepreneurship, labor market issues, salary caps, and command economy athletes coming to the U.S. Use your economics TEKS to give your class a thorough workout with these new sports lesson ideas game plans!

Workshop Title: Teaching Elementary Personal Finance and Economics through Art

Creativity, art, innovation and entrepreneurship are all precursors to economic development. Join us in this session to learn ways to teach the economic and personal finance TEKS in K-5 social studies and math through art. In all of its forms - literature, drama, poetry, sculpture, drawing, and painting - art CAN be used to teach economics concepts!

Workshop Title: Using Political Cartoons and Primary Documents to Teach Economics in HS History and US Government

Audience: High School Teachers

Looking for a new way to help your students understand economics, government and history of the United States? Using the free "Understanding Fiscal Responsibility" curriculum can help! Analyzing political cartoons, graphs, tables and charts, as well as other primary documents, will help you teach your students how to better understand our history and the modern day financial issues in government.

Workshop Title: Choice One or Choice Two? The Psychology of Economic Choice

Audience: Middle School and High School Teachers

Why do people make certain economic choices? Are the costs and benefits of each alternative weighed before the decision is made? How can students be taught to understand the basic concepts addressed in behavioral economics? Join us in this training to learn more about the psychology of economic decision making and see how you can teach your students to understand how good personal finance choices are made.

Workshop Title:Training Your Students for the Stock Market Game and Other Economic Competitions

Audience: Middle School and High School Teachers

Would you like your students to successfully master their personal finance math TEKS and their economics TEKS in social studies? The Stock Market Game, InvestWrite, and Gen-I Revolution are some of the competitions in Texas which provide opportunities for your students to win financial rewards and scholarships. Preparing for these competitions will ensure that your students master TEKS with real world economics and personal finance concepts. Come join us!

Workshop Title: Teaching Economics Financial Fitness for Life 3rd to 5th grade Teachers

Audience: 3rd through 5th grade teachers

Susan Doty of UT Tyler will present lessons that demonstrate the integration of economics and personal finance concepts in the K-5 classroom through math and language curriculum. Teachers will receive personal copies of Financial Fitness for Life® and Virtual Economics 4.5® provided through the generous funding of Texas Bank and Trust and the Council for Economic Education.

Workshop Title: Teaching Economics K-2 Can Do Math

Audience: Tyler ISD K through 2nd Teachers

Workshop Title: Gilmer ISD Professional Development

Audience: Gilmer ISD Economics, It's Elementary and AP Economics

Economics, It's Elementary: Although Math comes before Economics in the title, both TEKS are integral to the elementary curriculum. This workshop will provide examples of how you can introduce student-centered basic economic concepts that are reinforced through math activities. You will also discover how a collection of children's stories can give your classroom an instant economic boost at the same time infusing more reading comprehension and language arts skills. Come have fun with us!

AP Economics:

Workshop Title: Tyler ISD Summer Professional Development

Audience: Tyler ISD Government, Economics, and History Teachers and Elementary Economics

Elementary Economics:
Participants will learn three exciting new ways to teach economics and to integrate economics into government classes. We will explore lessons in Sports Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Understanding Fiscal Responsibility.

Government, Economics and History:
Participants will learn how to integrate economic concepts with reading comprehension and language arts skills by using the newest children's books and the economics and personal finance lessons that correspond with them.

Workshop Title: Tyler ISD Summer Professional Development

Audience: Tyler ISD US History Teachers and Elementary Economics

US History:
Participants will learn three exciting new ways to teach economics and to integrate economics into government classes. We will explore lessons in Sports Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Understanding Fiscal Responsibility.

Elementary Economics:
Participants will learn how to integrate economic concepts with reading comprehension and language arts skills by using the newest children's books and the economics and personal finance lessons that correspond with them.

Workshop Title: Are you ready? New High School Personal Financial Literacy Course

Audience: High School Teachers, Grades 9-12

Are you teaching the New Personal Finance course this year but don't know what it is or what the TEKS cover? Personal Financial Literacy will help students have the knowledge and skills to make sound and informed financial decisions. This course will teach students to apply critical-thinking and problem-solving skills involving earning, spending, saving, investing, credit and borrowing - plus much more. Join us to better understand the TEKS and how you might implement them

Workshop Title: Are you ready? New High School Personal Financial Literacy Course

Audience: High School Teachers, Grades 9-12

Workshop Title: Teaching Elementary Personal Finance and Economics through Art

Workshop Title: Using Political Cartoons and Primary Documents to Teach Economics in HS History

Audience: High School Teachers

Workshop Title: Teaching Economics Through Sports for High School Social Studies and CTE

Audience: High School Teachers, Grades 9-12

Workshop Title: Math and Personal Finance for 7th/8th Grade

Audience: Math Teachers, Grades 7-8

Want to be prepared for the New Personal Financial Literacy Standards in Grades 7-8 and participate in real life economics at the same time? Come experience comprehensive personal finance curriculum, developed especially for middle school students. All participants will receive the new book: Voluntary National Standards in Personal Finance with hands-on, engaging lesson plans and instruction on how to use these lessons to meet the Texas personal financial literacy TEKS

Workshop Title: CTE Financial Math

Audience: High School History Teachers, Grades 9-12

Workshop Title: Annual Social Studies Summit 2017

Audience: Social Studies Teachers, Grades K-12

Engage, Explore, Educate! Come prepared for a content-rich and interesting day! There will be a variety of sessions/presenters offered and breakout sessions will be geared toward all levels and areas of social studies interests, K-12. You will experience new strategies, as well as learning content knowledge that will help your students grow so they can be successful in the classroom and on the STAAR assessments.

Workshop Title: Tyler ISD Summer Professional Development

Audience: Tyler ISD 9-12 Government and Economics Teachers and Elementary Economics

Government and Economics - Participants will learn three exciting new ways to teach economics and to integrate economics into government classes. We will explore lessons in Sports Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Understanding Fiscal Responsibility.
Elementary Economics - Participants will learn how to integrate economic concepts with reading comprehension and language arts skills by using the newest children's books and the economics and personal finance lessons that correspond with them.

Workshop Title: Math and Personal Finance

Audience: Math Teachers, Grades 5-6

Want to be prepared for the New Personal Financial Literacy Standards in Grades 5-6 and participate in real life economics at the same time? Come experience comprehensive personal finance curriculum, developed especially for middle school students. All participants will receive the new book: Voluntary National Standards in Personal Finance with hands-on, engaging lesson plans and instruction on how to use these lessons to meet the Texas personal financial literacy TEKS.

Workshop Title: Teaching Elementary Economics and PFL Through Children's Literature

Audience: Teachers, Grades 1-4

Social Studies economics and math personal finance TEKS are both integral to the elementary curriculum, and how better to teach them than through children's literature! This session will show you how you can use the newest children's books to teach economics concepts and at the same time infuse more reading comprehension and language arts skills into your classroom.

Workshop Title: Graphing Economics: Bond with Your Graphs!

Audience: Secondary Teachers

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a graph is worth a thousand pictures. In economics, graphs are the tools of the trade. How well do your students truly grasp them? How prepared do you feel to teach with graphs? Come and learn new ways to tell a story with graphs - ways that will empower you and engage your students! Designed for high school economics, AP and dual credit teachers, others by permission.

Workshop Title: Personal Finance in After-School Programs

Audience: K-8 Math Teachers

By Invitation Only.

Want to be prepared for the New Personal Financial Literacy Standards in grades K-8 and participate in real-life economics at the same time? Come experience comprehensive personal finance curriculum, developed especially for middle and high school students. All participants will receive the new book: Voluntary National Standards in Personal Finance with hands-on, engaging lesson plans and instruction on how to use these lessons to meet the Texas personal financial literacy TEKS.

Workshop Title: The Economics Challenge: Are Your Students Ready to Compete?

Audience: Secondary Teachers

Is it time for your economics students to flex their intellectual muscles? The Texas Economics Challenge is held each spring - let 2017 be the year that you and your students participate. You and they can gain recognition and earn rewards. Come and learn how to coach your students in this year's challenge! Designed for high school economics, AP and dual credit teachers, others by permission.

Workshop Title: Preparing for Financial Literacy Month in April: Teaching Personal Finance with Art

Audience: Elementary Teachers

Creativity, art, innovation and entrepreneurship are all precursors to economic development. Come and learn ways to teach economics and personal finance in the K-4 social studies and math TEKS through art. In all of its forms - literature, theatre, poetry, sculpture, drawing, painting and more - art can be used to teach economics! Elementary math, reading, language arts, social studies and art teachers are welcome.

Workshop Title: Teaching Personal Finance with the Stock Market Game

Audience: Grades 4-12 Math, Social Studies, Economics, CTE and G & T Teachers

Would you like your students to successfully master their personal finance math TEKS and their economics TEKS in social studies? The Stock Market Game, InvestWrite and Gen-I Revolution are some of the competitions in Texas that provide opportunities for your students to win financial rewards and scholarships. Preparing for these competitions will ensure that your students master TEKS with real world economics and personal finance concepts. Come join us!

Workshop Title: Are You Ready? New High School Personal Financial Literacy Course

Audience: High School Math, Social Studies, Economics and CTE Teachers

Workshop Title: People Gain When They Trade Voluntarily

Audience: World Culture, World History and World Geography

How do imports, exports and globalization affect our lives today? If examined through the lens of economics then there are many similarities! Join us for a day filled with engaging hands-on activities that incorporate the economics TEKS for world history, geography and world cultures - perfect for grabbing the interest of your students!

Workshop Title: Personal Finance in After-School Programs

Audience: K-8 Math

By Invitation Only.

Workshop Title: Economics, It's Elementary! Economics in Social Studies and Personal Finance in Math

Audience: Elementary Math and Social Studies Teachers

Although Math comes before Economics in the title, both TEKS are integral to the elementary curriculum. This workshop will provide examples of how you can introduce student-centered basic economic concepts that are reinforced through math activities. You will also discover how a collection of children's stories can give your classroom an instant economic boost at the same time infusing more reading comprehension and language arts skills. Come have fun with us!

Workshop Title: Personal Finance in Math for Middle School

Audience: Middle School Grades 7 - 8 Math Teachers

Invitation Only.

Want to be prepared for the New Personal Financial Literacy Standards in grades 7-8 and participate in real life economics at the same time? Come experience comprehensive personal finance curriculum, developed especially for middle and high school students. All participants will receive the new book: Voluntary National Standards in Personal Finance with hands-on, engaging lesson plans and instruction on how to use these lessons to meet the Texas personal financial literacy TEKS.

Workshop Title: Cotton, Cattle and Commerce

Audience: Texas History Teachers

In this Texas History Part 2 workshop, teachers who have attended a prior economic education training session will delve deeper into the TEKS about the cattle drives, King Cotton, slavery, the oil boom and the free enterprise system that influenced each. Teachers attending this session will experience hands-on activities and strategies that will reinforce these TEKS and help students master the economics concepts.

Workshop Title: Election Economics: Understanding Fiscal Responsibility

Audience: Grades 4-12 Math, Social Studies, Economics, CTE and G&T Teachers

Many factors influence voters as they decide how they will vote. The economic policies advocated by candidates and political parties are important factors in these decisions. Many voters base their decisions on how the economy is affecting them at that time. Can your students Identify economic conditions likely to influence voter opinion or explain how the economics of the times have influenced past elections? Join us to see how the economics TEKS play a part in elections!

Workshop Title: Teaching Personal Finance with the Stock Market Game

Audience: Grades 4-12 Math, Social Studies, Economics, CTE and G&T Teachers

Would you like your students to successfully master their personal finance math TEKS and their economics TEKS in social studies? The Stock Market Game, InvestWrite and Gen-I Revolution are some of the competitions in Texas which provide opportunities for your students to win financial rewards and scholarships. Preparing for these competitions will ensure that your students master TEKS with real world economics and personal finance concepts. Come join us!

Workshop Title: New High School Personal Financial Literacy Course

Audience: Personal Finance High School Teachers

Workshop Title:Training Your Students for the Stock Market Game and Other Economic Competitions

Audience: Middle School and High School Teachers

Workshop Title: Student Competitions in Economics and Personal Finance

Audience: Middle and High School Math, Social Studies, Business and G&T Teachers

This workshop will prepare teachers to coach student teams in all of the competitions sponsored by the state TCEE, the Texas Council on Economic Education and the national CEE, the Council for Economic Education. These competitions include the Stock Market Game, Gen-I Revolution, the Economics Challenge and the Personal Finance Challenge. Local incentives will be offered for teachers in Regions 7 and 8.

Workshop Title: Math and Personal Finance

Audience: Middle School Math Teachers

Want to be prepared for the New Personal Financial Literacy Standards in Grades 7-8 and participate in real life economics at the same time? Come experience comprehensive personal finance curriculum, developed especially for middle and high school students. All participants will receive the new book: Voluntary National Standards in Personal Finance with hands-on, engaging lesson plans and instruction on how to use these lessons to meet the Texas personal financial literacy TEKS

Workshop Title: New High School Personal Financial Literacy Course

Audience: Personal Finance High School Teachers

Workshop Title: Stock Market Game and Financial Literacy Competitions

Audience: Social Studies, Math and CTE Workshops

Workshop Title: Economics in the Founding Documents

Audience: Middle School US History Workshop

Workshop Title: Personal Financial Literacy (PFL) for 7th-8th Grade Math Teachers

Audience: 7th and 8th Grade Teachers Personal Finance

Workshop Title: Teaching U.S. History Through an Economics Lens

Audience: Middle School and High School U.S. History Teachers

Receive lesson plans that are sure to capture the attention of your inquisitive and energetic students. These hands-on activities give you a new and refreshing way to meet your U.S. History content goals, and infuse eye-opening economics material at the same time. Your students will develop critical thinking skills as they solve intriguing historical mysteries.

Workshop Title: Math and Personal Finance II

Audience: 7th and 8th Grade Math Teachers

Learn to teach personal finance in the math curriculum for 7th and 8th grade students. Discover the alignment between TCEE, Texas Council on Economic Education, and Smarter Texas personal finance lesson plans with the new TEKS in mathematics.

Workshop Title: Comings and Goings: Imports, Exports and Globalization

Audience: Middle School and High School World History and Geography

How do imports, exports and globalization affect our lives today? If examined through the lens of economics then there are many similarities! Join us for a day filled with engaging hands-on activities that incorporate the economics TEKS for World history, Geography and World Cultures - perfect for grabbing the interest of your students!

Workshop Title: It's Elementary! Math Personal Finance and Economics for Grades K-4 (Part 1)

Audience: Math and Economics K-4 Elementary Teachers

Although Math comes before Economics in the title, both sets of TEKS are integral to the elementary curriculum. This workshop will provide examples of how you can introduce student-centered basic economic concepts that are reinforced through math activities. You will also discover how a collection of children's stories can give your classroom an instant economic boost, infusing more reading comprehension and language arts skills. Come have fun with us!

Workshop Title: Economics, It's Elementary!

Audience: Tyler ISD K-5 Math and Social Studies Teachers

Learn to teach economics through children's literature and personal finance in the math curriculum for grades K-5 students. Discover the alignment between TCEE, Texas Council on Economic Education, and Smarter Texas personal finance lesson plans with the new TEKS in mathematics.

Workshop Title: Math and Personal Finance

Audience: 5th and 6th Grade Math Teachers

Learn to teach personal finance in the math curriculum for 5th and 6th students. Discover the alignment between TCEE, Texas Council on Economic Education, and Smarter Texas personal finance lesson plans with the new TEKS in mathematics.

Workshop Title: Math and Personal Finance I

Audience: 5th and 6th Grade Math Teachers

Workshop Title: Economic Mysteries in US History

Audience: Middle and High School World History and World Geography Teachers

Workshop Title: Social Studies Summit

Audience: Social Studies Teachers K-12

Every two years, the Council for Economic Education (CEE) conducts a comprehensive look into the state of K-12 economic and financial education in the United States, collecting data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The biennial Survey of the States serves as an important benchmark for our progress, revealing both how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go. There has been notable progress since the first survey was published in 1998, yet the pace of change has slowed. Texas fares very well in this survey, let’s learn why!

Workshop Title: Middle School Math and Personal Finance

Audience: 5th and 6th Grade Math Teachers

Learn to teach personal finance in the math curriculum for 5th and 6th grade students. Discover the alignment between TCEE, Texas Council on Economic Education, and Smarter Texas personal finance lesson plans with the new TEKS in mathematics.

Workshop Title: Business Economics, Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy

Audience: CTE Workshop

Do you want your students to be productive citizens, well-informed consumers, responsible borrowers, savvy savers, and active participants in the 21st century workforce? This training will help prepare you to teach them about personal finance and its underlying economic way of thinking, free enterprise, markets, career preparation, banking, budgeting, credit and saving - all of which will help them make good financial decisions..

Workshop Title: Cotton, Cattle and Commerce

Audience: Secondary Social Studies Teachers, Especially US History and Texas History

Workshop Title: Social Studies Summit

Audience: Social Studies Teachers K-12

In four mini-sessions, teachers can choose from Teaching Economics through Children's Literature (K-4), Economic Mystery in History (5-12), Election Economics (5-12) and Personal Finance in Social Studies (5-12).

Workshop Title: VE 4.5 Gilmer ISD

Audience: Full Gilmer Independent School District Immersion into Virtual Economics 4.5

This "make it / take it" workshop will also include a hands-on demonstration of virtual economics 4.5, and teachers will leave with a library of over 79 publications and 1,400 lesson plans!

Workshop Title: Economics, It's Elementary!

Audience: Tyler ISD K-5 Math and Social Studies Teachers

Workshop Title: Teaching U.S. History Through an Economics Lens

Audience: Brownsboro ISD 8th Grade U.S. History Teachers

Learn to integrate economics with fun, interactive lesson plans as you teach westward expansion and industrialization in the 8th grade U.S. History curriculum.

Workshop Title: Teaching U.S. History Through an Economics Lens

Audience: Secondary American Government and Economics Teachers

Explore the role economics plays in government and its influence on political choices. Your students will examine topics like the relationship between economic freedom and political freedom? What is the role of government in the economy? What about health care? Unemployment? Teachers will receive two new publications, one for a semester course in economics and one for a semester course in Government.

Workshop Title: Student Competitions in Economics and Personal Finance

Audience: Middle and High School Math, Social Studies, Business and G&T Teachers

Workshop Title: Virtual Economics 4.0

Audience: K-5 Math and Social Studies Teachers

This "make it / take it" workshop will also include a hands-on demonstration of virtual economics 4.0, and teachers will leave with a library of 79 publications and 1,400 lesson plans!

Workshop Title: Economics, It's Elementary!

Audience: K-5 Math and Social Studies Teachers
Learn to teach personal finance in math and economics in Children's Literature

Workshop Title: Economics, It's Elementary!

Audience: K-5 Math and Social Studies teachers

Learn to teach personal finance in math and economics in children's literature.

Workshop Title: Common Sense Economics

Audience: Middle School and High School Social Studies, Math and Business Teachers

Learn directly from the author on how to make economics fun. Dr. Tawni Ferrarini will be presenting key economic concepts in three parts. Part 1 discusses concepts such as scarcity, gains from trade, marginal decision-making, profits and losses, the sources of income growth, and the invisible hand are highlighted and discussed. Part 2 applies the basic concepts to wealth creation and highlights the importance of private ownership, competition, monetary stability, low taxes, and open trade. Part 3 explains how the political process works, considers why it often goes awry, and makes suggestions for improvement. Part 4 focuses on personal decision-making and provides readers with ideas and resources on how to make strategic career and financial choices. This book covers what people really need to know in order to be savvy consumers, sophisticated investors, and dynamic citizens.

Workshop Title: Economics in the 8th Grade TEKS

Audience: 8th Grade U.S. History Teachers

Learn to integrate economics with fun, interactive lesson plans as you teach westward expansion and industrialization in the 8th grade U.S. History curriculum.

Workshop Title: Traveling the Silk Road

Audience: Secondary Social Studies Teachers, Especially World History and World Geography

Explore the Silk Road from Chang'an, China to Rome sometime during the second century C.E. Learn to think as traders in six cities along the Silk Road, bartering with traders from neighboring cities. As the silk moves west toward Rome and gold moves east toward Chang'an, see changes in the values of the goods being traded.

Workshop Title: When Cotton Was King

Audience: Secondary Social Studies Teachers, Especially U.S. History and Texas history

While growth continued, the American South experienced serious economic setbacks in the years following independence. Cotton appeared to be the hope of the future. Changes in technology in the South, particularly the cotton gin, and changes in textile technology and demand in Great Britain resulted in cotton becoming "King" in the American South. Teachers will learn how to integrate the underlying economics concepts of this familiar information by developing analytical supply and demand tools.

Workshop Title: Teaching Financial Crises

Audience: Secondary Social Studies Teachers, Especially Government and Economics

Lessons from Teaching Financial Crises provide and organizing framework in which to contextualize all of the media attention that has been paid to the recent financial crisis, as well as put it in a historical context. Teachers will find a non-partisan and non-ideological resource to help them simplify and offer balanced perspectives connected to educational objectives, historical analysis, and economic processes and concepts that are used in the high school classroom.

Workshop Title: Playful Economics

Audience: K-4 Teachers

Want to teach these economic concepts: Production, Producer, Consumer, Productive Resources, Natural Resources, Human Resources, Capital Resources, Entrepreneur? Learn how to do so with fun, hands-on lessons using modeling clay and children's literature. All teachers will leave with lesson plans. One lucky teacher will receive a classroom supply of Play-Dough.

Workshop Title: Teaching Economics Through Children's Literature™ and Financial Fitness for Life®

Susan Doty of UT Tyler will present lessons that demonstrate the integration of economics and personal finance concepts in the K-5 classroom through math and language curriculum.