• Course: Economics
  • Dates: June 18-21
  • Instructor: Dick Brunelle, email - dickbru@aol.com

    • Dick has taught AP Microeconomics and AP Macroeconomics at Ashland High School where he also served as Department Chair. Since leaving that position he has been involved in teaching various courses in economics at Fitchburg State College, and more recently at Northeastern University. Dick is the author of AP Macroeconomics/Microeconomics: An Apex Learning Guide, Simon and Shuster 2003-2005 editions. He is a co-author of the popular website for economics teachers and students, Reffonomics.com. From 2002 through 2008, Dick was the director of the Economic Foundation, a non-profit organization that worked with teachers and students at various high schools throughout southern New England. He was a member of the Test committee for the AP exams in Micro and Macro for five years. Dick also served as trainer of scorers for the NAEP economic test. He has conducted workshops for teachers throughout the United States and Canada.

  • Included:
    • Materials (textbooks, manual for teaching AP Economics, Tests)
    • Lunch & Snacks
    • Flashdrive
  • Emphasis:
      • Microeconomics
    • Test questions, strategies and resources for teaching the following:
      Essential models for AP Micro: Production Possibilities, Comparative Advantage, Supply and Demand, Price Floors and Price Ceilings, Incidence of Taxation, Deadweight Loss, Elasticity, Concurrent Shifts, Marginal Utility, Utility Maximization, Short-run Production Functions, Long-run Production Functions, Marginal Product Analysis, Types of profit, Perfect Competition, Monopoly, Oligopoly, Monopolistic Competition, Marginal Revenue Product Analysis, Factor Markets, Role of Government, Externalities.
      Macroeconomics
    • Test questions, strategies and resources for teaching the following:
      Essential models for AP Macro: Circular flow model, Gross Domestic Product and Components, Inflation, Unemployment, Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, AD/AS analysis, Sticky Prices and Wages, Flexible Prices and Wages, Fractional Banking System, Time Value of Money, Money Multiplier, Tools of the Fed, Monetary Policy, Money Market Analysis, Loanable Funds Analysis, Fiscal Policy, Spending Multiplier, Demand Pull and Cost Push Inflation, Phillips Curve, Growth, Balance of Payment, Foreign Exchange Market.