A couple of years of the Class Read: what I've learned
[Admission: I actually wrote this a year ago and never got around to posting it.] A few years ago I wrote about an experiment I was just starting: getting a whole class to read the same non-fiction book together, a "Class Read". You can find that original post here, and it lays out where I started and why. I'm pleased to say the experiment stuck. This is also one of my Classroom Systems; you can take a look at the others here. I've packaged up everything, all the resources th
Free Choice Read
A not-perfect but fairly easy-to-implement system for regular reading. We really want my students to be reading, and ideally reading non-narrative non-fiction that builds up their contextual knowledge. So, what I was after was a system that gets students reading the right sort of stuff, at a level that's accessible to them, in a way that doesn't eat up a bunch of teacher time. I just posted about Class Read and I still love that system, but there are a few barriers to settin
World Cup Application Project
Overview The World Cup Application Project is designed to help students develop their macroeconomic application and judgement skills. Although the project uses the structure of the World Cup, the focus is not on football (I have a blog post coming out with Economics of the World Cup links soon for that!) Students use the countries in World Cup groups as case studies for researching economic conditions and applying macroeconomic policy decisions. The project has two main stage