Kelli Ruiz, Director of Education for Junior Achievement of Western PA, conducted a training session for some of our high school students who have volunteered to teach economics lessons to our 6th grade middle school students. Six groups of students are slated to teach one lesson a week over a 6 week time period. Our student volunteerteachers will present a middle school program entitled "JA Global Marketplace" covering various concepts such as trade, markets, business practices, technology, and currencies. They will also work to enhance students' skills in the areas of interpreting maps, charts, and globes as well as oral and written communication, working in groups, gathering and organizing information, in addition to critical thinking and enhancing math skills and calculations. Through continued efforts to enhance the Economics course at CCHS, Susan Dixon and Tom Aurandt were successful in having Mt. Aloysius College recognize the Economics class as equivalent to their Econ 201 class (Introduction to Economics) for dual enrollment purposes.
