Teacher Workshops
We offer SOL-Compliant Economic Education workshops for K-12 teachers.
Teachers from Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, and Campbell counties, and Lynchburg City participate FREE thanks to the financial partnership support from each school division and grant money from the Virginia Tobacco Commission and Virginia Council on Economic Education.
Other teachers will be charged a $50 fee to cover a portion of the workshop expenses. (Discounts are available for multiple participants.) Private School Economic Education Association memberships are available.
Contact Rebecca Booth, director, for more details: booth.r@lynchburg.edu, 434.544.8791.
Upcoming Workshops
Spring 2013
The Stock Market Game: Empowering Students to Invest in a Secure Financial Future (Grades 4-12)
Lynchburg College - Schewel Hall 134
Thursday, January 24, 2013
4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
In addition to being a true-to-life playing field for buying/selling stocks and teaching about the U.S. economy, the Stock Market GameTM (SMG) is correlated to the SOL in math, business/marketing, language arts, social studies, and technology. Teachers DO NOT need any knowledge of the stock market to attend this workshop or play the game! Teachers begin the workshop by learning (or reviewing) basic investment terms and strategies for personal and classroom use. After observing the SMG website navigation, teachers practice navigating the website on their own using a self-guided tour. Game participants gain access to a wealth of online curriculum materials designed to make playing the game almost effortless. Participating teachers and winning students will be recognized at the annual Economics Education Awards Reception in May 2013.
Economic i-Pad/iPod Apps and Uses
Lynchburg College - Schewel Hall 217
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Does your school use i-Pads or iPods? Are you wondering how to adapt your instruction to take full advantage of these electronic resources? This workshop will help set your students up for success. I-Pads/iPods can be used at each level of Blooms Taxonomy. Multiple economic SOL related applications will be shared. Bring your i-Pad and be ready for a fun yet informative experience.
Mathematics and Economics: Connections for Life (Grades 3-8)
Lynchburg College - Schewel Hall 231
Monday, February 25, 2013
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
This workshop, based on the teacher resource books of the same title, focuses on the use of mathematic concepts to each economics and personal finance skills. Featured are interesting, hands-on, and dynamic mathematic lessons for grades 3-8. Lessons will help students see the relevance of mathematics and economics to everyday life. Activities will tap into their natural creativity as they explore the basic economics concepts that will prepare them to be better citizens, consumers, and workers. Each participant will receive the featured appropriate grade level curriculum book.
Risky Business: What Every Teenager Needs to Know about Living Smart and Financing Their Future
Lynchburg College - Schewel Hall 232
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Are today's teenagers well-equipped to confidently face life's challenges as they move into adulthood? In order for our young people to become productive and successful members of an increasingly global economy, they need the skills to make sound decisions and plan wisely for their futures. This workshop will help you show your students how sound decision-making can empower people and provide greater opportunities for success, fortune, freedom, and overall well-being. Each workshop participant will receive curriculum valued at over $150.
Using Dragons Decide: A Free Enterprise Coloring book to Teach Economic Concepts
R. S. Payne Elementary School, Lynchburg City In-service
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
"Dilroy and Diana were Dragons. They lived in a nice little castle at the top of the hill. For many years they worked hard to buy things they needed. Even dragons have needs..." Dragons Decide, a combination story and coloring book, is a popular tool designed to reinforce some basic economic concepts, including scarcity, choice and decision-making, opportunity cost, saving, producers, goods and services, resources and specialization and interdependence. Each teacher will receive a set of coloring books courtesy of the Virginia Housing Development Authority.
Economic Resources for Grades K-12
Lynchburg College - Schewel Hall 217
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
An interactive, hands-on workshop that helps participants gain a greater understanding of the most important concepts in economics and personal finance. Each participant will receive two books, each containing six lesson plans for students from elementary to high school. Lessons range from problems with barter and the benefits of money, productivity in making origami cups, making clothes from grain, causes of economic growth, gross domestic pizza, writing and record keeping using Babylonian texts, federal budgets, public goods and services, and the free rider problem.
Summer 2013
Economics Institute (6-day)
Lynchburg College - Schewel Hall 232
July 25, 26, 29, 30, August 1, 2
Teaching or planning to teach the new Economics and Personal Finance course? Then this institute may be for you! This program focuses on the economics content in the new economics SOLs and will provide some resources for teaching it to your students.
Participants will learn how the "economic way of thinking" turns basic economics concepts into "life skills" that enable them to make more meaningful and productive day to day decisions. A detailed analysis of how market economies work and the personal and societal implications of economic indicators - inflation, unemployment, and economic growth, etc. - will also contribute to more informed decision-making as consumers, producers, savers, investors, employees, and citizens. A broader analysis of economies as a whole will conclude the program, allowing participants to make better sense of world situations.
Registration Procedures
All teachers should register using the above links or by accessing the Virginia Council on Economic Education website (www.vcee.org), clicking "Teacher Workshops" and selecting "Lynchburg College" as the "Sponsoring Center for Economic Education." Next "Search," then "Register" (located in blue bar beneath workshop description). Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Extra Incentives
- All workshops are SOL-compliant.
- Each participant will take home a collection of ready-to-use lessons and/or curriculum unit.
- Certificates of completion will be awarded for recertification points, as approved by each school division.
- Food and drink will be served at every workshop!
Directions
Click here for turn by turn directions to campus.
To Schewel Hall
- On Lakeside Drive (221N), pass Lynchburg College's main entrance on the right.
- Take the first right at the first light.
- Take the next right onto College Drive.
- Take a right onto Vernon Street at the top of the hill.
- Schewel Hall is the three-story brick building straight ahead (beside the Chapel and attached to library).
To Brewer Townhouse 1 - Large Meeting Room
- Off Lakeside Drive (221N), enter through Lynchburg College's main entrance on the right.
- Take the first right.
- Continue past dorms toward Wake Field House.
- Park in the large parking area before Wake Field.
- Walk down the incline. Enter the building to the left of the Pavilion. Enter lowest level of building.
To Burton Student Center - East Room
- Off Lakeside Drive (221N), enter through Lynchburg College's main entrance on the right.
- Pass the guard house and veer left at the "Y."
- Burton Student Center is on the right.
- Enter through entry on far left of building to access the East Room.
