Teachers

The FTE provides a variety of high-quality professional development opportunities and lesson plans for secondary economics and social studies teachers.

Lesson Plans & Curriculum Materials

FTE curriculum materials meet teachers' requests for up-to-date, flexible, interactive lessons firmly grounded in cutting edge scholarship and correlated to national and state content standards. Teacher-generated and teacher-tested, content rich lessons include step-by-step instructions, teacher background materials, and lessons demonstrated on video.

Programs

Whether you like to travel across the country or just down the street, have time to drop in for an evening or stay for a week, prefer your classroom interaction to be live or virtual, FTE offers outstanding professional development programs to meet your needs. (AND, they’re free!)

All FTE programs are FREE to teachers. A program deposit, required to secure registration, is refunded upon completion of the course. Graduate credit is optional and requires an additional fee of $50/sem. hr. Clock hour certification at no charge.

Hot Topics

Hot Topics helps you help your students apply economic reasoning to the news and public policy issues of the day. FTE will watch the news for you, and when we find a story that lends itself to economic analysis, we'll email you a Hot Topic discussion guide, hot off the virtual press.

Professional Teachers Association

PTA Membership

Membership in the PTA is available to all alumni of FTE programs. The Association was formed to facilitate the creation and exchange of ideas and to provide members with important and timely information.

Upcoming PTA Conferences

Understanding Liberty and Choice:
The Contributions of Experimental Economics

Orange California September 26-28, 2008
Application opens April 1, 2008

Understanding Liberty and Choice:
Property Rights in American History

Denver Colorado December 4-6, 2008
Application opens August 15, 2008