iconomix

Swiss National Bank

Additional services and offers for teachers

The service section contains additional services and offers for teachers who use iconomix in their lessons.

Educational concept

This section provides teachers who use iconomix in class as well as anyone else who is interested in iconomix with information on the educational concepthttp://www.iconomix.ch/en/service/educational-concept/overview/, on the basic economic principleshttp://www.iconomix.ch/en/service/educational-concept/basic-economic-principles/ and on how the iconomix can be integrated into the curricula of Swiss upper secondary schoolshttp://www.iconomix.ch/en/service/educational-concept/integration-into-curricula/.

Workshops

In order to use the iconomix modules in their classes, teachers will need to invest a certain amount of effort in familiarising themselves with iconomix. For this reason, we recommend an iconomix workshophttp://www.iconomix.ch/en/service/workshops/overview/. Workshops are offered at several recognised schools, or can be held on demand for individual schools on their own premises.

Blog

The iconomix bloghttp://www.iconomix.ch/en/service/blog/ comments on current events from an economic perspective. Blog articles also provide information on useful sources such as books, articles in newspapers and other blogs, YouTube films and television programmes.

Newsletter

The iconomix newsletterhttp://www.iconomix.ch/en/service/newsletter/current-issue/ is published four times a year in German, French, Italian and English. It provides the latest news on the iconomix teaching programme, on workshops and the iconomix award for students.

Support

iconomix provides fast, comprehensive supporthttp://www.iconomix.ch/en/service/support/overview/, ranging from online demos (such as the iconomix tour) to FAQs, a system check and user support by phone and e-mail.

Contact

We would love to hear what you think of iconomix. Simply use our contact formhttp://www.iconomix.ch/en/service/contact/ to send us any questions and comments you may have.

Key

Upper secondary school level

The upper secondary school level comprises all school types subsequent to completion of compulsory schooling.

Curricula

The curricula define the teaching goals, educational content and other requirements of the courses taught at the different types of schools.

General curricula apply to the whole of Switzerland and, on the basis of these, specific curricula are formulated for the individual cantons and school types.

iconomix blog

The blog is an economics blog for schools and can be used in a number of ways – it can help further your knowledge, serve as a source of inspiration for a lesson or provide information on current economic topics.