Economics - ECON.1224
About the Workshop
Designed for the newcomer to AP® Microeconomics and AP® Macroeconomics, this course will prepare you for the first day of class with your own AP® economics students. Among other things, we will consider best ways to set up a strong course, complete a successful course audit, learn about facilitating student success in the course and on the exam, give heavy emphasis to helping you master AP® course content, and address individual concerns and questions about teaching AP® economics. You will finish this workshop with a grasp of all economic models central to both AP® Microeconomics and AP® Macroeconomics, as well as how much to emphasize each model for success on the AP® exams. Participants looking for personal guidance regarding their own AP® economics classroom will find it here. Your instructor is happy to help you get organized and eager for you to feel confident about teaching AP® Economics.
Register for the 2019 Economics workshop online.
About the Instructor
Richard Trinkner
Richard Trinkner loves teaching AP® economics and has shared his enthusiasm with students for 25 years in six countries. He has taught at Boulder High School since 2005. He earned his BA from Pomona College and an MA from Stanford University, and holds graduate certificates from the University of Colorado in economics and finance. He is National Board certified and has been an AP® Macroeconomics exam reader since 2012. In 2008, the Colorado Council for Economics named him the Economics Teacher of the Year, and in 2012 Boulder High’s students and parents awarded him the annual Mary Taylor Award as one of the school’s most outstanding teachers. He twice coached state-champion Fed Challenge teams and his 2008 team finished in the top seven nationally. His students have won the Colorado Stock Market Experience competition several times and were twice state champions in the NCEE’s Econ Challenge in the AP division, finishing 13th in the nation. While away from teaching between 1997 and 2003, he worked as a business strategy consultant for Gartner, Inc. Richard lives in Boulder and enjoys birding, cycling, mountaineering, scuba diving, homebrewing and cooking.