Economic Education Month

Economics is the study of making sound decisions in managing scarce resources which is an essential skill for all people. October is Economic Education month.

The aim of economic education is to equip students with skills and tools for their economic roles as productive workers, informed consumers and savers, involved citizens, and lifelong decision-makers in a globally interdependent world.

Economic education must be established and maintained in our PreK-12 schools, where even young children are capable of learning basic economic concepts that help them understand their economic world.

Economic education in our schools depends on PreK-12 educators equipped with high-quality training and resources to ensure students have equitable access to classroom lessons that develop the skills necessary to make informed choices as citizens.

Find #EconEdMonth Teacher Workshops

Your #Incentives:

Attend 5 trainings - be entered into a drawing for a $50 e-check
Attend 10 trainings - be entered into a drawing for a $100 e-check
Bring a friend to a training - be entered into a drawing for a $50 e-check

HIGH SCHOOL:

In addition to the opportunities above, verified 9th-12th grade educators currently teaching in an Arkansas high school that attend at least 3 of the 4 high school trainings presented by our Economic Education partners will receive a $20 e-check. The trainings that qualify for this incentive are:

October 2 - "The Law: Supply and Demand" presented by St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank
October 15 - "Economics of the Election" presented by Foundation for Economic Education
October 23 - "Econ Games" presented by Marginal Revolution University
October 24 - "Exploring our National Economy" presented by Econiful

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Econ Ed Month County Photos

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Picturing Econ K-8 Competition

"Public Good"

by Piper M.
East Side Elementary, Magnolia

K-8 students are challenged to picture economics by illustrating their understanding of its concepts. Students (and their teachers) with the most creative pieces are awarded prize money with student artwork featured on the Economics Arkansas website and various social media outlets.

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How YOU Can Support Economic Education

Economic education is real life education.

It's about choices. We make hundreds of choices each day. Our job is not to teach students what to think, but how to think.

We provide teachers with resources to integrate economic vocabulary and experiences into their existing classroom curriculum - in math, science, reading, and social studies. Our goal is to help teachers successfully set their students up for success to develop their human capital, to make wise choices, to be financially literate, and to understand our free-market economy.

By training teachers to use economics and personal finance in their classrooms, we can build a generation of effective leaders.

Every gift, large or small, helps create the opportunity for Economics Arkansas staff to continue to train current and future teachers through professional development and resources to teach economics, personal finance, and the free-enterprise system using practical and innovative methods.