Improve Your Practice with Insights from Psychology
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Join us to learn how an understanding of incentives, learned helplessness, and the illusion of attention can help you improve the effectiveness of your instruction and classroom policies. This session will focus on examples in an economics classroom, but the key concepts will be applicable in any course you teach.
Three Econiful members will win a complimentary copy of The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
Luke Starkey teaches on-level Economics, AP Microeconomics, and AP Macroeconomics at Chesterton High School in Chesterton, IN. Luke earned his undergraduate degree in Secondary Education from Indiana University and will graduate in May with his Master's of Economic and Entrepreneurship Education (MAEEE) from the University of Delaware. In creating this presentation, Luke used his experience as an AP Psychology teacher and collaborated with a colleague, Daniel Smith, who has a Master's degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina.