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UAM Center Conducts Economic
Education Workshop for Pre- K-12 Teachers (8/4/09)
MONTICELLO, AR — The Center for Economic Education at
the University of Arkansas at Monticello, in partnership with Economics
Arkansas, conducted an economic education workshop teachers from
pre-kindergarten through 12th grade July 21-23 at the UA-Pine Bluff campus.
Forty-one teachers participated in the workshop, conducted by Dr. Marsha
Clayton, director of the UAM center. Economics Arkansas funded and
coordinated the workshop, which featured the theme “Building on the Past:
Economics and Arkansas History.”
The three-day workshop included presentations on economic concepts in
Arkansas history, videos on events in the history of the state, and
grade-level curriculum sessions. Ethel Zoe Rossi, investment education
coordinator with the Arkansas Securities Department, gave a presentation on
Arkansas Entrepreneurs. Melody Key of the Farmington School District, Ruthie
Walls of the eSTEM Public Charter School in Little Rock, and Donna Wright,
associate director of Economics Arkansas, conducted grade-level curriculum
group sessions and group activities during the workshop.
Participants received eighteen hours of profession development credit.
Teachers completing the workshop were:
Emma J. Graham of the Arkansas School for the Deaf; Mary Givens of Bearden;
E. Ann Avey and Pamela A. Williams of Beebe; Amanda Simpson of Bradford;
Linda Bridges, Judy A. Erstine, Gwen Moody and Melissa A. Roberson of the
Catholic Schools of Arkansas; Tamy J. Chapin, Amanda Colclasure, Ginny L.
Howell, Cindy Randolph, Laura G. Simpson and Ashley Workman of Central
Arkansas Christian; Ashley Washam of the Center for Youth and Families;
JoAnn Barron, Marjorie Dobson and Brenda Stewart of DeWitt; JoAnn Arington
and Myra Jarmon of Little Rock; Donnie Branscum of Midland; Billie J. Down
and Margie Nanak of Pine Bluff; Janet Wallace of Poyen; Diane Charles,
Jacquelyn Copeland, Loveida Ingram, Ruby Knox and Willene J. Ware of the
Pulaski County Special School District; Alexia Williams of Ridgway Christian
School; Sandy Howton and Lynn Summit of Sheridan; Burl J. Moore, Jr., of
Siloam Springs; Donna Chadick, Addie Robinson and Louie Robinson of
Stuttgart; Lynell Bowen and Kathy D. Brown-Ladd of Watson Chapel; and Kathy
L. Carnahan and Marybeth Passmore of White Hall.
The UAM Center for Economic Education is one of six university centers for
economic education in Arkansas. The centers are affiliated with the
Arkansas and National Councils on Economic Education. The centers and
Economics Arkansas offer extended workshops for pre-K through 12 educators
during the summer, one-day workshops during the academic year, and
in-service workshops for school districts.
Economics Arkansas is a private, non-profit, non-partisan educational
organization founded in 1962. Its mission is to promote economic literacy
to Arkansas students by empowering educators to teach what it calls the
fourth ‘R’, real-life economics.
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