Videos/teaching strategies

The following are some links to helpful videos and teaching strategies to help teach economics

• Jadrian Wooten has an excellent library of different tools to help illustrate economic concepts 

  • https://www.jadrianwooten.com/resources
    
    

• Dirk Mateer provides excellent tools and blog posts that are especially helpful for first-time teachers 

  • https://www.dirkmateer.com/
    
    

• Critical Commons is a depository of many videos from various disciplines. It has videos for many economic concepts

  • www.criticalcommons.org
    
    

• Many websites explain different economic concepts using clips from television shows

  • Seinfeld http://yadayadayadaecon.com/

  • Modern Family https://modernfamilyecon.com/

  • The Big Bang Theory https://www.bazinganomics.com/

  • The Economics of Parks and Recreation https://economicsofparksandrec.com/

• Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics provides teaching strategies and many examples to economics instructors

  • https://serc.carleton.edu/econ/index.html

  • Here is an activity I contributed to help explain cartel behavior

    • https://serc.carleton.edu/econ/experiments/examples/154448.html 

• Marginal revolution provides great videos explaining various economics topics

  • https://mru.org/

  • Econ in the News by marginal revolution provides a weekly newsletter with the latest news stories with examples of economic concepts https://learn.mru.org/econ-news/

Book Recommendations

Here are some books I recommend for teaching assistance:

• "Small Teaching" by James M. Lang

• "What the Best College Teachers Do" by Ken Bain

• "The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion" by Sarah Rose Cavanagh

• "How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching" by Susan A. Ambrose, Marie K. Norman, Michele DiPietro, Michael W. Bridges, Marsha C. Lovett

• "Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make it Easy" by Daniel T. Willingham