Committee on Economic Education

More on Residential Workshops (Phase 1)

 

The first phase of TIP is a series of three-day workshops that introduce interactive learning strategies to novice and experienced economics instructors. The workshops will help bridge the gap between the minimal teacher education that instructors received in graduate school and best practices in undergraduate teaching.

The TIP workshops are designed so that participants return home with:

a better understanding of how students learn;

an appreciation of how interactive strategies enhance learning;

insights on the effective use of outcomes assessment;

basic skills in the use of several interactive strategies;

a preliminary plan to introduce interactive teaching methods in their courses;

an awareness that better teaching can be used to advance their scholarship and careers.

Each workshop will convene at 1:00 p.m. on a Friday and end at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. The workshop wil include sixteen hours of in-class instruction and six hours of out-of-class educational activities. One month before the workshop, participants will receive a briefing book with readings on which workshop sessions are based.

Participants will complete workshop assignments as teams to encourage discussion among faculty instructors and to model the use of teams for interactive teaching.

Between 2005 and 2009, it is expected that about 350 economics instructors will participate in one of 10 three-day workshops (2 per year). Workshops will be held each year at major university sites across the nation.