Edward R. Murrow HS teacher wins prestigious Sloan award
Key topic: Financial literacy
How do you teach complex macroeconomic concepts like supply and demand, balance of trade and inflation to high school students?
A teacher at Brooklyn’s Edward R. Murrow High School has been firing up his 11th- and 12th-grade students about money matters by grounding the subject in the understandable topic of personal finance.
“I want my students to understand that the world of economics is not just about supply and demand curves, but everyday life decisions as well,” said Matthew Gherman, 30, one of three teachers recently chosen for The Council for Economic Education’s (CEE) third annual Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Teaching Champion Award.
Gherman teaches AP and honors economics classes along with College Now Business Administration, and is the personal finance coordinator of Murrow. His students score high on the AP economics exam, but more importantly, they leave his classroom ready for the financial challenges of college and careers.