Hybrid Microeconomics Part 1 of 3: About the Course

I am teaching a hybrid AP Microeconomics course this spring.  This is the first of three posts describing my experience teaching this course.  The first is the basics about the course.  Attached is a FAQ that I sent to students before the class began.About the Course: AP Microeconomics

• This is a one-semester course.
• It is a hybrid course where students meet once every six school days and complete online readings, activities, and assessments.
• The goal was to add the opportunity for students to fit the course into their schedule and to add the flexibility to students’ workload.
• Students are expected to complete about an hour’s worth of work each day (equivalent of 40 minute class plus 20 minute homework).

Resources

• Students use the Learning Management System Canvas.
• Students read from Mankiw’s Principles of Economics textbook.
• Students complete workbook activities from Stone’s AP Microeconomics Resource Manual.

Course Meetings

• Students meet in small groups in occasionally non-traditional locations (ie. library or breakout room)
• The schedule was challenging to coordinate everyone’s availability, given that we did not have a dedicated meeting time.

Assignments

• There are five major resources that we use:
  • Videos (short bursts of information)
  • Textbook (longer and more theoretical)
  • Workbook & Handouts (focusing on mechanics)
  • Class (connecting dots and filling in the blanks)
  • Discussion Board (with threaded answers to questions, both conceptual and vocabulary)

Assessments

• Students take online quizzes to test for basic comprehension and completion
• Students take in-person quizzes and tests by scheduling a convenient time.