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Workshops

FTE Workshops offer teachers another opportunity to gain new materials and insight into economics topics.  The shorter, more condensed format of the workshop presentations allow more flexibility for teachers to easily gain new teaching tools and ideas in a shorter timeframe.  Workshops last approximately an hour and a half, and are held via Zoom.

Entrepreneurship & Creative Destruction

February 12, 2025 | 7:00-8:30pm ET

 

Entrepreneurship involves what Joseph Schumpeter called “creative destruction,” the process by which old products and processes give way to new ones. It is through this evolutionary process that economies progress and grow. This workshop features an activity in which students experience creative destruction as they create classroom inventions and then change, modify, and improve others’ inventions.

 

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Entrepreneurship: Food Truck Challenge

March 19, 2025 | 7:00-8:30pm ET

 

FTE’s new curriculum unit, Entrepreneurship: Economics of Innovation, provides educators with valuable resources to teach the increasingly popular topic of entrepreneurship. By focusing on key economic principles, the unit helps teachers create engaging and interactive lessons that explore the risks and rewards of starting a business.
In this workshop, teachers will learn how to incorporate topics like AI, international trade, and environmental sustainability into their entrepreneurship lessons.  A hands-on activity will provide teachers with ready-to-implement ideas that blend creativity, critical thinking, and real-world application.
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Cartels & Competition

April 30, 2025 | 7:00-8:30pm ET

 

This workshop features an engaging activity designed to help students explore key economic concepts, including how incentives matter, how increases in supply lead to reductions in price, and how cartels increase profits and market prices by restricting production. This workshop features an activity where students will examine how the desire for profit often undermines cartel agreements through a hands-on simulation. By the end of the session, teachers will be prepared to implement and use this activity in their own classrooms.

 

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Requirements

Active participation is required during all Workshops; participants are expected to keep cameras on during presentations.  Those who do not turn cameras on during sessions may be removed from the Workshop and will be ineligible for stipends.  Zoom breakout rooms are often used and attendees are expected to interact with each other to collaborate on virtual activities.  A second device (mobile, tablet, 2nd monitor) is usually helpful when accessing Workshop materials, but is not required.