Economics

Course summary

The Economic course offers a wide learning curriculum which provides students to be abreast of current economic issues and access a variety of opportunities to develop transferable skills for higher education and apprenticeships as well as for the job market. The course also enhances student’s personal development of building better awareness of the environment they inhabit. The economics content continually builds on prior concepts, students must understand the basics before they move on to new content, for example students will need to understand the nature of supply and demand analysis before moving onto elasticities. So inherently retrieval practice occurs at every turn of the course as the basics must be solidified before progress is made, cold calling constantly draws on past knowledge and do-now activities help with this. Teacher input consists of teaching from standardised resources that have clear explanations to ensure consistency with built in pop backs and retrieval practice. Such resources provide students with opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge and analytical skills of economic concepts, such as diagrammatic analysis. Staff all have degrees and qualifications in the subject area and lots of experience, and thus can provide detailed knowledge of the real economy. Students are given articles on current news that they think pair and discuss, applying theory they have learnt in lessons.