This has been a tough year overall – I know, everyone is experiencing the same thing. Our district switched to a block schedule at the beginning of the school year. I taught AP Micro in the fall. We were remote the entire time. We made it to the end of Unit 3. I apologized to the students but told them I didn’t know what I would have done differently. We were all stressed and I don’t think we could have pushed through any more curriculum than we did.
We started AP Macro in January. Now we were used to virtual teaching/learning so we could push a little bit. And we did. But somehow here we are mid-April and we are just finishing Unit 4 – The Financial Sector.
I have a plan for Unit 5 – Long-Run Consequences of Stabilization Policies. I’m going to teach it all in one lesson! I made a PowerPoint of all the highlights from Unit 5, I’ll lecture through it. Then we’ll practice:
- combining fiscal and monetary policy
- the Phillips Curve
- the velocity of money
- implications of deficit spending (national debt)
- crowding out
- conditions for economic growth
- supply-side economics
Now to figure out what I’m going to do for Unit 6.