The book "Teaching Economics: Microteaching" is an extremely useful book for Secondary Education teachers who teach economics courses as well as students of economics departments. It is specifically aimed at students of the Department of Economics Education who are attending a Special Program for obtaining a Certificate of Pedagogical and Teaching Competence.
The comparative advantages of the book are:
a) It presents the basic teaching methods and techniques in a simple and clear way.
b) It includes the section "Case Studies" which contains actual teaching plans. These are sample teaching plans implemented by the students of the Department of Economics Education within the course "Microteaching in Economics Courses".
c) It includes exercises that connect the theoretical part with the sample teaching plans with the aim of:
- better understanding the positive and negative elements of each teaching methodology/technique in order to choose the most appropriate method/technique for each teaching case
- practicing for the most effective matching of teaching objectives and teaching actions in order to design and implement the most effective teachings.
Therefore, it is a useful book for teachers and students for Teaching Economics.