Teaching Resources

Welcome to Teaching Resources, online instructor support for Economics: A Contemporary Introduction, by William A. McEachern. Contact your ITP Sales Representative for more details or contact Lisa Lysne, Marketing Manager, at South-Western College Publishing. For more instructor's aids, visit South-Western's Faculty Center.

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Ask the Author

Ask the Author gives you the chance to share your questions and comments with William McEachern, author of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction. Your questions and comments will help make the text better!

Teaching Tools

The Teaching Economist Newsletter
The Teaching Economist, edited by William A. McEachern, is a semi-annual newsletter -- now online -- devoted to the teaching of economics. Browse helpful articles devoted to improving teaching. See what your colleagues have to say. Or share your own tips for publication in future newsletters. Its worth the trip.

Sample Syllabi
Haven’t taught from Economics: A Contemporary Introduction before, and need to know a good way to structure your macro or micro course? Confused about how to construct a syllabus? Take a look at our sample syllabi for macroeconomics and microeconomics, assembled by William A. McEachern.

Teaching Assistance Manual
What are good tips for leading a class discussion? What makes quizzes and tests successful? What special challenges face foreign graduate students? For answers, check out the Teaching Assistance Manual.

Study Guide
The Study Guide provides your students with helpful tools and information for understanding the textbook. Need convincing? Take a look at a few chapters. If you agree, order a free examination copy.

CNBC Videos
South-Western College Publishing has teamed up with CNBC to provide professionally produced short video segments for your lectures covering a variety of economics topics.

Hypermedia Presentation Software for Windows
Demonstrate key graphs from the text with this animated presentation software.

PowerPoint Lecture Slides
Enhance your lectures with easy-to-use PowerPoint slides. Download your copy today!

Economics Guide
Download a copy of Economics Guide, free student tutorial software integrated with the text.

Economics Alive! CD-ROM Study Aids
Have you seen the future of economics education yet? If not, take a look

Learning Aids

Internet Resources
Going nutty over the ‘Net? Irked by IRCs? Are you Maxed Out on Acronyms (MOA)? Internet Resources has your cure.

News Links
Keep up-to-date with the latest news. Explore our comprehensive directory of annotated links to primary and secondary news sources.

Business and Governmental Links
Looking for a particular business or governmental resource on the Internet? Business and Governmental Links -- indexed and annotated for your convenience -- will show you where to go.