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.

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Summer 2010:

The Berry College Center for Economic Education is also please to announce that 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 the World Studies Institute. 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.

News from the Center

International Economics workshop participants, on March 10, were involved in a variety of activities designed to emphasize instructional strategies for economics.

On February 12, the High School Macro-economics workshop provided an in-depth look at macroeconomics concepts and theory, and focused on content organized around the GPS macroeconomic domain assessed by the EOCT. Each teacher received a DVD of ABC News "Teaching Tools of Macroeconomics" by reporter John Stossel, along with an instructor's manuel outlining each of the 15 segments on the disc.

The Stock Market Game was presened on Friday, January 22. This workshop provided 20 teachers from around the state with full-day introduction for those new to the program. Georgia Council on Economic Education staff showed teachers how to help their students learn from the market. In the ten-week, Web-based stock trading simulation, students will now 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.