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Podcast: Instructional Ecology
Episode: What we do is real.
Description: Leah Norris Teaches Economics in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She has a particular talent and determination to show her students how the theories she teaches are not just abstractions; those theories are describing and predicting patterns that we participate in and are touched by every day. Our conversation reminded me that in most instruction, one of our first jobs to to encounter student misconceptions and continually connect them to the reality of what we’re teaching.
Come spend some time with Economics.