High School Program
JA Economics™
JA Economics™ is a one-semester teacher taught course recommended for students in grades 11 and 12. The program examines the fundamental concepts of micro-, macro-, and international economics.
Program Components
The JA Economics program includes four components:
- Textbook: Contains the information students need to gain an understanding of economic concepts and principles.
- Student Study Guide: Provides students with an opportunity to extend their learning beyond the knowledge gained from the textbook through a variety of reinforcement and enrichment activities.
- Guides for Teachers and Volunteers: Includes lesson guides for the teacher to assist in presenting program content and activities for the volunteer to present to students during classroom visits.
- Test Bank: Generates economics quizzes and tests from a bank of nearly 500 multiple choice questions categorized by chapter, written at varying levels of difficulty, and accessed from a CD-ROM.
What’s New?
The JA Economics textbook has been:
- Revised to include up-to-date economic information.
- Reformatted to allow students to complete in-text activities as part of each chapter. Students also are prompted to mark content in the text that is important to remember, or information that is unclear or confusing. This interactive format provides students with a resource they can take with them at the completion of the course.
- Printed in color to make the content more engaging to students.
The Student Study Guide has been:
- Rewritten to parallel the revised textbook.
- Developed to include a vocabulary review, content application activities, challenge activities, and chapter review exercises.
Guides for Teachers and Volunteers have been:
- The Guide for Teachers has been expanded to include answer keys to each Student Study Guide activity.
- The Guide for Volunteers has been revised to contain updated activities for the volunteer to present.
The Test Bank has been:
- Reformatted on a CD-ROM for use on a Mac or PC.
- Simplified to make quizzes and exams easier to construct.
The Volunteer’s Role
The volunteer’s role in the JA Economics program can be satisfied by teaching a minimum of seven JA Economics sessions or by teaching one of four other JA programs. Because of their alignment with the goals of the JA Economics program, JA Company Program™, JA Titan™, JA Banks in Action™, and JA Success Skills™ serve as alternative ways for the volunteer to work with students in the classroom.
JA Worldwide® gratefully acknowledges MetLife Foundation for their dedication to the development and implementation of the high school program JA Economics. JA Worldwide appreciates its partnerships with MetLife Foundation, to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.
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