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Word Association - Introducing New Topics

Ruth Tarrant

25th February 2016

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Following on from my earlier blog post about using the "teapotting" approach to introduce new topics, this post looks at ways of using word association techniques as an alternative method of introducing new topics.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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