Regional workshops to improve the teaching skills of economics faculty

摘要

The Regional Workshop Program in Active Learning for College and University Teachers of Economics is the most recent version of a long line of support for college and university economics faculty. The founding program was the Teacher Training Program (TTP) initially funded by the Sloan Foundation (1973-1978), with continued support by the Lilly Endowment (1979-1983). Workshops were held at various major universities for faculty and graduate students, and resulted in the Resource Manual for Teacher Training Programs in Economics (Phillip Saunders et al., 1978). During 1992-1994, three-day residential TTP workshops were supported by another Lilly Endowment grant. Starting in 1996, the Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation supported a series of residential workshops on active-learning teaching methods at the ASSA annual meeting.