The Berry College Center for Economic Education (BCCEE) is located on the Berry campus in Room 256 of the Cook Building, a state-of-the art facility with multimedia classrooms, comfortable meeting and common areas, and a computer lab. Affiliated with the College's Charter School of Education and Human Sciences and the Georgia Council on Economic Education (GCEE), the center makes available a vast array of information and resources for area teachers. Check out the brochure link for more information about our services.

It’s Not Too Late . . .
There’s one final workshop being offered on the Berry Campus this fall. Virtual Economics 3 is scheduled for Friday, December 4. VE-3 provides a wealth of resources just for middle and high school teachers teachers, from 51 key economics concepts with practical teaching tips to more than 1,200 reproducible activity-based lessons correlated to the new economics and personal finance standards.

Our Upcoming Spring and Summer 2010 Events
The first workshop of the 2010 year, a one-day workshop for third-grade teachers, Econ and Me, will be held on Thursday, January 21. Economics content tested on the CRCT, and based on the GPS, is organized around five 15-minute video programs on DVD. Forty-four activities are provided to support interdisciplinary understanding of the economics concepts. Copies of the DVD and the activities are provided to each participant.

Two workshops, the Stock Market and High School Economics- Micro will be presented on Friday, January 22.

The Stock Market Game provides a full-day introduction for elementary school teachers new to the program. Georgia Council on Economic Education staff show teachers how to help their students learn from the market. In the ten-week, Web-based stock trading simulation, students apply research and math skills, practice group decision-making, and analyze cause-and-effect relationships. Stock Market Game materials and activities are provided to each participant.

High School Microeconomics is a one-day workshop that provides teachers with an in-depth look at microeconomic concepts and theory, and gives participants the opportunity to focus on content organized around the GPS microeconomic domain assessed by the EOCT. Each teacher will receive a DVD of ABC News "Teaching Tools for Microeconomics" by reporter John Stossel, along with an instructor's manual outlining each of the 15 segments on the disc.

A fourth spring workshop, High School Economics- Macro, takes place on Friday, February 12. In this one-day workshop teachers take an in-depth look at macroeconomic concepts and theory, and are given the opportunity to focus on content organized around the GPS macroeconomic domain assessed by the EOCT. Each teacher will receive a DVD of ABC News "Teaching Tools for Macroeconomics" by reporter John Stossel, along with an instructor's manual outlining each of the 15 segments on the disc.

The Berry College Center for Economic Education is also please to announce that this summer we will be hosting two Summer Economic Institutes.

First is the award-winning project, Georgia Economic History, on Tuesday, June 15 through Thursday, June 17. Designed for 8th grade teachers, this institute brings together an array of resources to help teachers lead their students in a study of their own local economic history. Teachers get hands-on experience with the tools of the historian and learn to work with local history groups.

Monday, June 28 through Wednesday, June 30 are the dates for International Economies and Globalization. This highly successful 2009 summer institute is being offered again by popular demand. The institute is designed to provide teachers with content on World History, World Geography, International Economics, and Georgia in the world economy through presentations by economists, state economic development officials, and master teachers as well as off-site field trip experiences. Instructional materials incorporate methods that focus on active learning approaches and are keyed to the GPS and CRCT.

Fall 2009 – News from the Center
Thirty-four third grade teachers participated in a one-day Econ and Me workshop on September 17. Economics content that began being tested on the CRCT for the first time this past year was addressed. The workshop was organized around a sampling of forty-four activities from five 15-minute video programs the DVD. These activities, designed to provide support for interdisciplinary understanding of the economics concepts, engaged the participants in hands-on experiences. Copies of the DVD and the activities were provided to each participant.

Economics in World Studies , a one-day workshop for teachers of grades 6 & 7 was held for twenty teachers on October 20. This workshop focused on the three major economic concepts in the world studies course: types of economic systems, economic growth and development, and international trade. Teachers enhanced their content and pedagogical knowledge and receive materials directly related to the GPS.