Jadrian J. Wooten
Educator and Researcher
Jadrian Wooten is an award-winning educator and is currently an Associate Teaching Professor at The Pennsylvania State University within the Department of Economics. His research interests are in managerial and labor related issues in sports as well as teaching pedagogy. He is also deeply involved in developing teaching resources for university and high school economics instructors. He is most well known for his work on the integration of media into the economics curriculum.
Academic Appointments
The Pennsylvania State University
Associate Teaching Professor Economics (2019 — Present)
Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics (2018 — 2019)
Lecturer of Economics (2014 — 2018)
Washington State University
Department of Educational Leadership & Counseling Psychology
Adjunct Instructor (2013 — 2015)
Graduate Instructor (2012 — 2014)
Education
PhD in Economics (2014)
Washington State University
Fields: Industrial Organization and Environmental & Natural Resources
Master of Business Administration (2010)
Sam Houston State University
Emphasis: Economics and Management
Bachelor of Business Administration (2009)
Sam Houston State University
Majors: Economics and Management
Minors: Entrepreneurship
With Honors from the Elliot T. Bowers Honors Program
Stories about me, my teaching,
or my research
Teaching Focus
September 10, 2020
With the partial or complete switch to online classes, some students have noticed professors teaching past the scheduled class end-time more frequently or changing instruction modes.
Teaching Focus
September 04, 2020
Listen as authors Glenn Hubbard and Tony O'Brien have a wide-ranging discussion with Jadrian Wooten, an economics professor at Penn State University. Jadrian discusses some pedagogical approaches in his online classes, his use of a standing desk in zoom teaching his large classes, as well as the unclear impact of missing college football to the local college economies.
Teaching Focus
August 18, 2020
Leslie Knope put it best when she said, “We need to remember what’s important in life: friends, waffles, work Jim O’Heir shouting out Penn State.”
Teaching Focus
July 03, 2020
Many Penn State students who logged into LionPATH on Monday were surprised to learn some of their classes, even smaller ones, would be taught remotely in the fall.
Teaching Focus
June 20, 2020
"I will listen and believe you if someone is threatening you."
These simple words, printed on stickers recently donated to the Lauren McCluskey Foundation, are a summation of "Lauren's Promise" — a vow that educators at all levels, but particularly in higher education, can include on their course syllabi to let students know they're ready to listen and to help.