Workshops at Florida Council for the Social Studies Conference Give Teachers Leg Up on Teaching to Sunshine State Standards

Profiled resources for meeting state-mandated K-12 economics content include instructional technology, classroom lesson plans.

New York, NY (PRWEB) August 31, 2007 -- The National Council on Economic Education (NCEE, www.ncee.net) today revealed its workshop schedule for the Florida Council for the Social Studies Conference (www.fcss.org) in Orlando, FL, on October 10-13, 2007.

NCEE will conduct four workshops where two economic education experts will share teaching strategies for covering the K-12 economics content that is required by the Florida Sunshine State Standards. During the workshops, teachers will receive free sample lessons, handouts and other resources.

"We're fortunate to have two top-notch instructional leaders sharing their expertise with Florida social studies teachers," says Troy D. White, Director of Product Marketing & Sales at the National Council on Economic Education. "Teachers will discover not only how to meet the Sunshine State Standards for economics, but also how to increase student achievement in their classrooms."

Fred Dorsett, a retired social studies teacher and department chair and currently the Program Coordinator for the Gus A. Stavros Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at the University of Southern Florida, will lead three workshops:

Novel Ways to Teach K-8 Economics on Friday from 10:15-11:05 a.m., and on Saturday, K-12 Economics: By the Sunshine State Standards from 8:00-8:50 a.m. and Understanding Economics in U.S. History from 10:30-11:20 a.m.

Mr. Dorsett's workshops will focus on using Virtual Economics to find economic, history, and civics and government lesson plans that meet the Florida Sunshine State Standards. In addition, he will showcase NCEE's newest publication, Focus: Grades K-2 Economics (http://store.ncee.net/focusk2.html), which uses activity-based lessons to make the introduction of often-challenging economics concepts fun and easy for both teachers and their young students.

Kathy Miles, NCEE's Thinking Economics (www.thinkingeconomics.com) teacher specialist, will show high school teachers how to adopt a high-tech teaching approach to high school economics. Teachers will discover how to use digital resources and computer-based lessons to engage today's technology-saturated students. Her workshop, Using Technology to Teach High School Economics, will take place on Friday from 3:10-4:00 p.m.

To obtain a copy of workshop materials and handouts, contact Troy D. White at twhite @ ncee.net or call 212-730-1791.

To learn more about NCEE at the Florida Council for the Social Studies conference, visit http://nceeconferences.blogspot.com/2007/08/ncee-exhibits-workshops-at-florida.html.

About the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE)
The NCEE is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to improving economic, financial and entrepreneurship literacy. Both directly and through its unique nationwide network of State Councils and more than 200 university-based Centers for Economic Education, NCEE's programs reach over 150,000 K-12 teachers and more than 15 million students each year.

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