Teacher Professional Development (PD)

Each course in the FRB Professional Development Certificate program contains lessons, readings and learning modules that you can use to teach the topic to students in your classroom. For each course, you will need to complete both content and teaching assessments to obtain your professional development certificate.

Once registered, you will receive an email with instructions. Upon finishing the program, you will be awarded a certificate recognizing your completion of 10 hours of professional development.

FRB Professional Development Certificate Courses:

• Gross Domestic Product
  This course will cover key content about gross domestic product (GDP), including what it measures, how it is measured, and how well it serves as an indicator of the health of an economy and the well-being of that economy’s population.
• Inflation
  This course will cover key content about inflation, including how it is measured, how it affects savers and borrowers, and why the Fed targets a low and stable inflation rate.
• The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy
  This course will cover key content about the Federal Reserve System and how the Fed conducts monetary policy to achieve the goals set for it by Congress: price stability and maximum employment.
• Money and Payment Systems
  This course will cover key content about money and payment systems, including the functions and characteristics that make money an effective tool within an economy and payment systems that facilitate its use in trade.
• Unemployment
  This course will cover key content about unemployment, how it is measured, types of unemployment, and current unemployment data and trends.
• Economics of Trade
  This course will cover key content around the concept of comparative advantage and its impact on trade.