Presentations To The President: A Role-Play Assignment For A Macroeconomics Principles Class

Evaluating Covid-19 Fiscal Policies: Teaching Pandemic Fiscal Policies through Cooperative Learning

“…By re-designing the lesson as a role-play, students are more engaged in active learning (Bawa, 2020). This lesson builds on the work of Gundersen and Kaminaga (2022), Presentations to the President: A Role-Play Assignment for a Macroeconomics Principles Class. Gundersen and Kaminaga (2022) have two primary goals for their project.…”

“…This lesson builds on the work of Gundersen and Kaminaga (2022), Presentations to the President: A Role-Play Assignment for a Macroeconomics Principles Class. Gundersen and Kaminaga (2022) have two primary goals for their project. The first goal is for students to demonstrate a strong knowledge of the economy from both a long-1 While it is generally assumed that high school teachers use a mix of instructional methods, there is currently limited research on pedagogy in high school economics courses.…”

“…The second primary goal is to provide policy recommendations to the President (the professor) on achieving those desired outcomes. While the lesson presented below places students in the role of economic advisers, similar to Gundersen and Kaminaga (2022), the lesson described in the article asks students to evaluate policies that Congress has brought to the President. The Covid-19 pandemic served as the backdrop for the simulation and the student advisers were tasked with selecting the best fiscal policy to address the potential economic disaster.…”