Teachers Kits on WTO

I've noticed quite a few visitors to this site have used one or other of the search engines to look for basic information on the WTO, such as the WTO's 'objectives'. It's not something I often provide: the WTO itself does a lot of that, and pretty well, too.

Over the past decade or so, I've been commissioned by the WTO to write several books about the Agreements, about the history of WTO and about the politics of trade. For one reason or another not all of these projects lead to a publication (my bio contains a list of those that did).

One such project was a sort of 'experiment' at presenting the WTO to junior, middle and senior high-school students. The idea was to create some teachers' kits on the WTO with lessons, class exercises and teachers' notes about the lessons. The Teachers Kits on WTO are now a couple of years old and one or two facts are already outdated (the number of WTO Member countries, for example). But they are mostly still accurate.

Each of the kits contains lessons for Middle school and two have extensions for Senior school. They have class exercises (some advanced, some easy) and Teachers' Notes with the answers to the exercises.

Over the next couple of weeks, I'm going to present three of the kits here beginning with the class materials and teachers' materials for "About the WTO". This document deals specifically with the objectives of WTO.

If you find this introductory kit useful, please check back for kits on 'Keeping the Peace' and 'Trade in Goods'.

PS: The kits are made for printing. You'll find that they fit fine on either US Letter or A4 sized paper

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