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Patrice Bain: Teaching with "Power Tools"

Patrice Bain: Teaching with "Power Tools"

Update: 2025-10-30
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Could brain science help unlock students' understanding of complex economic topics? 

In this episode, St. Louis Fed Economic Education Officer Scott Wolla explores that question with educator and author Patrice Bain. Bain spent years working with cognitive scientists to better understand how people learn and wrote about her findings in her book "Powerful Teaching." She shares her four "power tools" for learning and how they can be applied to economic education.

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Patrice Bain: Teaching with "Power Tools"

Patrice Bain: Teaching with "Power Tools"