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Common core econ high school
1. What Does This Mean For
Economics Education?
By:
The USF Stavros Center
2. Overview of the Initiative
State-led and developed common core
standards for K-12 in English/language arts
and mathematics
Focus on learning expectations for students,
not how students get there.
3. Why Now?
⢠Different standards across states
⢠Student mobility
⢠Global competition
⢠Todayâs jobs require different skills
4. Key Shifts in ELA/Literacy
⢠Balancing informational and literary text
⢠Building knowledge in the disciplines
⢠Complex Texts and Close Reading
⢠Text-Based Answers
⢠Writing From Sources
â Argumentative
â Short and sustained research projects
⢠Academic Vocabulary
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5. Balancing Informational & Literary
Text
⢠In economics K-5, use of:
â Social Studies textbook
â Non-fiction & primary sources
â Literary texts (literature/fiction)
â Digital (websites, photos, videos, etc.)
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6. Building knowledge in the disciplines
⢠In economics, emphasize reading to learn:
â Learn from what they read
â Do not summarize for them
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7. Staircase of Complexity/Complex Texts
⢠Students read the central, grade appropriate
text (based on âlexilesâ and other measures).
â Economics textbooks need to be more complex
â Include text plus primary source documents and
other complexities (graphs, charts, images, etc)
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CCSS, Appendix A, page 4
10. Text-Based Answers
Itâs all about the text!
Ask good questions, based on reading.
Expect answers, based on evidence from reading.
For example, in Economics:
â Economic Way of Thinking
â Core Economics Concepts
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11. The Economic Way of Thinking
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http://www.kidseconposters.com/images/6core.swf
12. Common Sense Economics
Dwight Lee
⢠LexileŽ Measure 1450L
⢠Demand and Supply
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http://commonsenseeconomics.com/
13. Writing From Sources
⢠Writing uses evidence from different sources
â Writing to inform: use textbook and other
documents (including photos, videos, primary
sources, websites) to provide information.
â Writing to make an argument: use textbook and
other documents (i.e. photos, videos, websites,
maps, primary sources) to argue facts and persuade
*Use newspaper or magazine articles: The Economist,
Time Moneyland, New York Times, The Atlantic,
Wall Street Journal (classroom edition)
http://classroom.wsj.com/
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14. Primary Source Lessons from the
Federal Reserve
⢠Lesson to Accompany the First Bank of the U.S.A.publication:
http://www.philadelphiafed.org/education/teachers/lesson-plans/
⢠Myths, Tall Tales and Urban Legends: Facts Behind the Fed :
http://www.frbatlanta.org/documents/edresources/MythsLessonC
⢠Free Silver Lesson:
https://www.stlouisfed.org/education_resources/assets/lesson_pla
⢠Our Great Depression curriculum website also has links to
primary source documents, videos, interviews, photographs,
and FDR's fireside chats:
http://www.stlouisfed.org/greatdepression/
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15. Data Resources
⢠FRASER: Federal Reserve Archives :
http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/
⢠FRED: Customizable graphs
--http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
⢠GeoFRED- Geography based tool :
http://geofred.stlouisfed.org/#
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16. Academic Vocabulary
⢠Focus on general academic words: discourse,
generate, theory, compare/contrast.
⢠Focus on discipline-specific words: economic
concepts and associated words
â Economics Glossary:
http://www.econedlink.org/economic-resources/gloss
â Fifty Nifty Econ Cards:
http://www.federalreserveeducation.org/resources/fif
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17. What Should We Do?
⢠MAINTAIN NGSSS FOR SOCIAL STUDIES!
⢠Leveling texts we have and creating new texts.
⢠Attention to primary sources
⢠Writing from sources: writing like an economist!
⢠Reading complex texts: thinking like an economist!
⢠Match materials to standards
⢠Integrate literacy standards as tools to teach the content:
reading and writing about economics!
⢠Provide Economics Activities that relate to standards
18. More Information
⢠Visit http://www.corestandards.org/
⢠Visit our home page for a link to more information:
http://stavros.coedu.usf.edu/ and click the common core
message under Whatâs New or to to:
http://globalliteracies.wordpress.com/common-core-for-
global-literacies/