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Cooperative Education Exchange Program

Through the Cooperative Education Exchange Program or CEEP (formerly known as the International Education Exchange Program) funded by the U.S. Department of Education, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State, the Council for Economic Education has produced publications for use in U.S. classrooms.

Instructional Guides

Focus: Globalization: This twelve-lesson publication features student-centered instructional methods and provides teachers with the conceptual framework and basic data and information sources they need to cover globalization topics in a responsible and engaging way. The lessons are useful for teachers of economics, history, geography, government/civics, and contemporary issues courses.
Focus: Grades 3-5 Economics: This 13-lesson publication addresses the need for sound instructional materials for teachers who teach grades 3-5. Application of economic understanding to real-world situations and context dominate the lessons. Lessons explicitly address the Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics benchmarks for grades 3-5.
Middle School World Geography: Focus on Economics: This 9-lesson publication for middle school is designed to integrate economics and geography. Blending these two disciplines offers students the ability to develop content knowledge and enhance their analytical skills. Lessons are correlated to the National Geography Standards and the Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics.
Focus: Institutions and Markets: This publication contains twelve lessons based on the World Bank’s 2002 World Development Report, Building Institutions for Markets. The lessons are multidisciplinary in nature and cover topics related to the importance of institutions in the development and functioning of market economies around the world.
The Wide World of Trade: This publication contains eleven standards-based lessons that help middle school students learn about other countries, the benefits of voluntary trade among countries, and the basis for trade. Students will also learn about the culture, geography, and history of the countries they study through communication with students in those countries.
Focus: Economic Systems: This publication presents a comparative approach to link concepts and materials that are frequently neglected in other economics courses. An introductory essay provides background information to the 12 classroom-ready lessons. Students examine issues such as: What is the appropriate scope of, and limits to, competition? What is government’s role in a market economy? How much inequality in distribution of wealth is acceptable? For economics, world history, and geography courses.
Focus: International Economics: This curriculum resource presents 20 lessons dealing with concepts and issues in international economics. The lessons are organized around major topics such as: why people and nations trade, interpreting trade data, trade barriers, balance of payments, the debate over NAFTA, and privatization.
From Plan to Market: Teaching Ideas for Social Studies, Economics, and Business Classes: An original collection of ten lessons based on data from the World Bank’s 1996 report on emerging market economies. These lessons help students explore issues such as: How are the transition economies doing? Will these economies make the necessary changes to rebuild markets and reintegrate themselves into the world economy? Will they be able to sustain the social costs of transition? For U.S. and world history, economics, and business courses.
Economies in Transition: Command to Market: A teacher resource guide with ten lessons that help U.S. secondary school students understand the challenges facing the former Soviet Union and eastern and central European countries during the transition to new economic systems. Lessons focus on specific aspects of economic reform and complications encountered in emerging market economies.

Lesson Samplers

Resources A to Z: Lesson Plans from Writers around the World: This publication contains six lessons for elementary school classrooms developed by teams of writers from the United States and eligible countries. The lessons will also be featured on NCEE’s website. Authors of the lessons are graduates of the Training of Writers program conducted by NCEE as part of CEEP
Old MacDonald to Uncle Sam: Lesson Plans from Writers around the World: Six lessons for elementary, middle, and high school classrooms developed by teams of writers from Belarus, Croatia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, and the United States. Authors of the lessons are graduates of the Training of Writers program conducted by NCEE as part of CEEP.
Roosters to Robots: Lesson Plans from Writers around the World: This publication contains six lessons for elementary, middle, and high school classrooms developed by teams of writers from Belarus, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, and the United States. Authors of the lessons are graduates of the Training of Writers program conducted by NCEE as part of CEEP.

Other

Connecting the Pieces: Building a Better Economics Lesson: The lessons in this guide show how to infuse economics across the K-12 curriculum, the basic strategies of lesson writing, and ideas for field-testing lessons. Based on the Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics, this publication is an easy-to-use resource for curriculum developers and teachers. It serves as the text for the CEEP Training of Writers workshops and is being used by U.S. teachers to further their skills in writing instructional materials.
From Marx to Markets in the Classroom: Reforming Economics and Economics Teaching in the Transition Countries: Published by Edward K. Elgar Publishers (U.K) with support provided by NCEE and the Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation, Inc., this scholarly publication includes an overview of economic instruction and attitudes toward markets and market reforms in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the reformation of undergraduate instruction in economics, and the effects of faculty training programs on students, teachers, and teacher trainers. Chapter 4 summarizes research on the effects of NCEE’s international program funded through the Cooperative Education Exchange Program. The publication also includes chapters on the status of economic education in nine transition countries.