Teacher Training Programs
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s team of economic educators offer one-day, three-evening, and week-long professional development programs aimed at equipping K-12 teachers to better teach about economics and personal finance in their own classrooms. Teachers receive professional development credit in their respective states. Pre-registration through this website is required.
Upcoming Programs
Making Sense of Money and Banking
Philadelphia, PA
July 14-18, 2008
This course, taught by Federal Reserve economists, economic education specialists, and staff from the state centers on economic education, covers money, banking, and the Federal Reserve System. It includes grade-level-specific breakout sessions aimed at providing teachers with lesson plans that can be implemented right away in their classrooms. Emphasis is placed on active- and collaborative-learning teaching methods and curricula for teaching money and banking in the K-12 classroom.
Registration for this program is now closed.
Personal Finance for the Middle
School Classroom
July 30, 2008
Philadelphia, PA
This one-day professional development program for grades 6-8 educators is taught by Federal Reserve economic education specialists. The course covers how to teach students about budgeting, saving, investing, and personal decision making in the middle school classroom. Emphasis is placed on strategies for active and collaborative learning.
Kids and Money: A Professional Development Program for Teachers
August 4, 7, and 12, 2008
Philadelphia, PA, Gettysburg, PA, and Atlantic City, NJ
This one-day professional development program introduces educators to a new series of lessons for teaching elementary students about money and decision making using children’s literature. Taught by Federal Reserve economic education specialists, this program emphasizes active- and collaborative-learning teaching methods that help elementary teachers meet state and national standards in social studies and personal finance. Listen to details about the program: May's Moments in Money and Economics.
The Great Depression: A Professional Development
Program for Teachers
August 5, 8, and 13, 2008
Philadelphia, PA, Gettysburg, PA, and Atlantic City, NJ
This one-day professional development program introduces educators to a new series of simulations, role-playing activities, group activities, and classroom demonstrations designed to effectively teach high school students about the Great Depression. Taught by Federal Reserve economic education specialists, this program emphasizes active- and collaborative-learning teaching methodologies that help high school educators meet state and national standards in history and economics. Listen to details about the program: June's Moments in Money and Economics.
Past Programs
Mathematics & Economics for the Elementary Classroom
This three-afternoon professional development program introduces elementary school educators to economic concepts and how to teach them through mathematics. Participants will be taken through a series of simulations, role-playing activities, group activities, and classroom demonstrations. Taught by Federal Reserve economic education specialists, this program emphasizes active- and collaborative-learning teaching methodologies that help elementary school teachers meet state and national standards in mathematics, social studies, and economics. Participants will receive professional development credit in their state.
Economics in Action: Greatest Hits for Teaching High School Economics
This three-evening professional development program introduces educators to a series of simulations, role-playing activities, group activities, and classroom demonstrations designed to effectively teach high school students about economic concepts. Taught by Federal Reserve economic education specialists, this program emphasizes active- and collaborative-learning teaching methodologies that help high school educators meet state and national standards in social studies and economics.
Making Sense of Money and Banking
This five-day professional development course for K-12 educators is taught by Federal Reserve economic education specialists and staff from the state centers for economic education. The course covers how to teach students about money, banking, and the Federal Reserve System. Emphasis is placed on strategies for active and collaborative learning.
Economics and Children's Literature
This professional development program introduces primary teachers to economic concepts and demonstrates how to teach them using children's literature. Taught by Federal Reserve economic education specialists, it emphasizes active-learning techniques that help educators meet state and national standards in economics and personal finance.
Teaching
About the Global Economy:
A Workshop Series
for Teachers
This three-evening professional development program introduces teachers to economic concepts such as comparative advantage, trade, foreign exchange, and tariffs and demonstrates how to teach these concepts in middle- and high-school classrooms. Taught by Federal Reserve economic education specialists, the program emphasizes active- and collaborative-learning teaching methodologies that help educators meet state and national standards in economics and social studies.
Hot Topics in Economics
This one-evening professional development program, co-sponsored by the Temple University Center for Economic Education and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, introduces teachers to timely topics in economics and personal finance during three 45-minute presentations.
Mathematics & Economics
This three-afternoon program, taught by Federal Reserve economists and economic education specialists, introduces middle and high school educators to economic concepts and how to teach them through mathematics. Emphasis is placed on active-learning techniques that help educators meet state and national standards in economics.
FED 101: A Workshop for Teachers
This program introduces middle and high school teachers to the resources available from the Fed for teaching about money, banking, and monetary policy. Taught by Federal Reserve specialists, it emphasizes active-learning techniques that help educators meet state and national standards in economics and personal finance. Curriculum materials will be distributed.
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