About Doug Farmwald Expertise I have taught in high schools since 1992. My license areas are Economics, History, and Political Science. I have worked with special education populations (emotional handicap and learning disabled) since I began teaching. Consequently, I have taught most subjects at the high school level.
Question Help....I'm finishing up my first year of teaching and have been asked to develop a "Workshop Economics" class for the lower achieving students. Most will have a myriad of issues and challenges: lack of motivation, reading difficulties, behavior problems, ADD/ADHD, foreign language students. I am looking for any help you can give me. (i.e., textbooks, projects, lesson plans, behavior management,----what ever!)
Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
Anna Ibrahim
Answer Hi Anna,
I don't think it matters too much what text you use as, from your description, I don't think your students will be at their best doing book work. I have always had the most success teaching Econ. when I can relate it to the everyday reality of the students. My line is that you already do Economics every single day, I'm just going to teach you the terms for what you already do.
As far as behaviour management goes, a token economy model lends itself to this sort of course. You can also teach some organizationl/record keeping skills (and computer spreadsheet skills) with this approach as long as it is age appropriate for the kids and they don't feel it is patronizing.
As far as lesson plans, there is a wealth of good ideas out on the net and I have included a number of links that should have some good resources for you. You won't use all of them of course, but there should be plenty of ideas that coincide with the main concepts you plan to cover.
