Economics : Meaning - nature – scope - Aims and objectives of teaching Economics in schools – Need and significance of teaching Economics - Values of teaching Economics.

Steps in planning a lesson: Setting lesson goals – Designing a unit plan – Designing a lesson plan – Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational objectives - Formulating instructional objectives at cognitive, affective and psychomotor levels – Structure of a four-fold lesson plan – Preparation of a model lesson plan – Types of test-items - Constructing test- items for formative evaluation in class.

Meaning of teaching – Understanding major teaching skills: Introducing - explaining - questioning - varying the stimulus - non-verbal cues - reinforcement - closure and fluency in the communication – Practising a mini-lesson with multiple teaching skills (for 20 minutes): observation and feedback on the practice of integration of teaching skills – Understanding major steps in teaching a mini-lesson: Motivation, presentation, interaction, reflection and summing up – Practising mini-lesson (for 20 minutes); observation and feedback on mini-teaching.

Teacher- centered of methods: Lecture method - Demonstration method - Team– teaching. Learner-centered methods: Project method - Peer tutoring/teaching by students - Individual activities – Experiential Learning - Teacher-guided learning - Problem-solving method –Small group/whole-class interactive learning: Student seminar - Group discussion – Mixed-ability grouping. Recent trends: Constructivist learning – Problem-based learning – Brain-based learning – Collaborative learning – Flipped learning – Blended learning – e– Learning trends – Video conferencing

Print resources: Newspapers - Journals - Magazines - Economics Encyclopedias. Audio resources: Radio talk - audio tapes - DVDs / CDs. Visual resources: Flash cards - Pictures -Cartoons - Charts - Posters - photograph - maps - models. ICT resource: Radio- TV- Internet- Multimedia- Interactive whiteboard. Community resources: Exhibitions/fairs - Fieldtrips- Economics club - Economics Resource Centre - Qualities of a good economics textbook - Qualities of an Economics teacher.