Minnesota licensed grade preK-12 teacher registrants who attend the webinar sessions live will receive a $25 Amazon gift card. MN license number will be asked during registration, license must be active & not expired in MDE license look up; MCEE will verify license before issuing gift card. *Excludes Speaker Series, National, Center, & other council webinars.

In this webinar, teachers will learn more about commonly used economic terms like the GDP or unemployment and other related concepts like well-being. While each of these metrics are used to assess an economy’s performance they have shortcomings that imply that none of them provide a comprehensive view of the economy by themselves. Further, the economy could be performing well according to one metric (GDP for example) and not perform well on other metrics (income distribution for example). An accurate reflection of the economy’s performance requires an understanding of how social categories like race or gender influence the measures of economic performance. The webinar will discuss these ideas by looking at commonly used and easily accessible data sources that would make the study of economics more realistic and also discuss the potential risks of relying on any one measure for assessing an economy’s performance.

*Registrants will receive an email the day prior to the workshop with the webinar link.

Instructor(s):

Sucharita Mukherjee - College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University

Cost:

Free Registration, $19 for non-MN participants

What's Included:

Upon completion, participants will receive a certificate of completion for 1.0 clock hour to go toward required Continuing Education Units (CEU).
Receive Free Lessons, Resources, Materials, Recording of Session, & Session Presentation.

Eligibility:

This course is open to pre-service, licensed teachers, & others. No fall classroom placement is required.
This course will only be offered if at least 10 teachers register.

Economics and/or Personal Finance Concepts Addressed:

GDP, unemployment, economic growth, and economic fluctuations.

Questions about this or other events? Contact us at mcee@umn.edu or (612) 652-3727.

Registrations are closed

Digging Deeper into Economic Numbers