One of the work highlights of my year is coming up - leading and speaking at 7 different Economics teacher CPD courses in London at the wonderful Clermont Hotel in Charing Cross with tutor2u. Over the past 15 years, a rough back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests I've supported well over 2000 Economics teachers through these events.
Economics is one of the fastest growing A level subjects in the UK (and rightly so!) but suffers from the lowest recruitment rate (measured by the number of teachers enrolling on PGCE or equivalent courses as a proportion of the government target). The excess of demand over supply of economics teachers is an economics case study in itself, but I'm delighted to be able to do my bit to help plug some of the gap.
4 of the upcoming courses are specifically designed to support teachers of other subjects move confidently into teaching economics, as well as those completely new to the profession. 2 are carefully designed to help teachers of all levels of experience in supporting their students with getting the highest possible A level grade that they can, and 1 is targeted at those teachers who are looking to become, or who have recently become, the head of a business/economics department.
I can't wait! Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eCse93hB
Economics educationalist and inspirer, trainer, coach, writer, tutor
8moI design and teach the economics curriculum on Oxford's PPE Foundation Year... this course is relatively non-traditional, focused on solving real world problems with the best tools available (traditional and non traditional). We use the brilliant ESPP free textbook from CORE as our starting point. Definitely worth taking a look at what we do!