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TRBF and OEE continue to offer the microeconomic and macroeconomic workshops, which have been so popular since the beginning, taught by award-winning professors and classroom teachers. Additionally, TRBF now provides undergraduate education majors with professional development offerings in economics. Finally, as part of the strategic plan, TRBF/OEE staff have successfully established reliable contacts in the six southern Arizona counties outside of Pima County to assist in building a network with local community colleges, county school superintendents, and district administrators to develop a teaching talent network in southern Arizona. 90344 UA BROWN TEACHING FELLOWSThe Thomas R Brown Teaching Fellows program at the University of Arizona (UA) is a three year program to provide the opportunity annually for 4 promising PhD students who are interested in teaching economics to work with an economics professor in supporting the ECON200 course. This improves current UA students' education and helps to develop outstanding teachers of economics. In addition to assisting current UA professors in teaching economic principles, the Fellows also make themselves available to assist with Foundation programs from time to time. The UA has provided feedback that the Fellows "receive very high teaching evaluations when they go on to teach their own classes." The UA has even been informed that one of the past Brown Fellows "was the best teacher he had experienced at the UA." 63830 V.O.T.E. (Voices on the Economy) SeriesThe series is designed to provide a better base for understanding civic and government activities by increasing the understanding of how economic principles affect political outcomes without attempting to promote or criticize any specific political viewpoint. These economic perspectives - conservative, liberal and radical - appear both historically and in contemporary political discourse. During the summer, Dr. Amy Cramer teaches a foundational three-day workshop that introduces teachers to the three economic perspectives and how these economic perspectives effect the political action taken on topics such as rent control, minimum wage, consumer regulations and agricultural subsidies. As a sequel to the foundational Markets and Government course taught during the summer, Dr. Cramer has developed a series of topic-based workshops that apply the same economic perspectives to modern political issues such as business cycle stabilization policy, income 29361 VIRTUAL ECONOMICSIn 2014, the Thomas R Brown Foundation presented four half-day workshops for current and pre-service teachers to assist them in obtaining and utilizing the Virtual Economics software, a powerful curriculum-building tool. The sessions were designed to provide the resources and lesson plans needed to teach Arizona's economic standards by grade level. Each of the 71 attendees received a complimentary copy of the Virtual Economics software, with lessons for K-12 classes, including over 1,400 reproducible lessons in economics and personal finance aligned to the Arizona Academic Standards. Upon completion of the course, the teachers received a certificate for 3 hours of attendance. 7491 1107768 261888 49458 1419114 0 1419114 21287 1397827 69891 X 391801 391801 858 390943 2005-01-20 X 0 0 391801 307479 296613 494913 1490806 391801 307479 296613 494913 1490806 46594 57166 65317 78816 247893 Mary B Bernal Sarah B Smallhouse X 14 49260 18 6091 55351 55351 false false false false false false false false false false ACCOUNTING 14498 7249 0 0 Gerald Swanson Gerald Swanson was compensated solely for courses that he taught outside of his role as a trustee. 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