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Financial Literacy: Full Semester Course!

In this semester long course, your students will learn how to become a financial literate adult!
Ms.Lister
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What's included

17 live meetings
17 in-class hours
Homework
Some homework may be required in the last 4 weeks of the class, but only for the project, which they will have time to work on in the meetings, so that I can discuss and monitor progress!
Assessment
I will monitor their progress through informal assessments like the warm up and exit slips.

Class Experience

Does your learner have a hard time understanding what it means to be finically literate? This is a problem that a lot of students struggle with. In fact, you often hear that students wish that they learned more about Finical Literacy in school, but that they were not given the opportunity. I am here to help! 

In this course your students will learn all about what it means to be a finically literate adult. They will complete a project that they look at rent and cost of items compared to a salary that their dream job would provide them! They will walk away knowing more about investment options, saving and checking accounts, writing a check, credit score, and creating a budget. 

We will meet once a week for 17 weeks. This semester long course, will allow your student to know the ins and outs of being a true adult finically. Each day, your student will come in to complete a warm up, which is a refresher from the previous week. And then we will jump right into the context of the class for that day. Some days, we may play study games, others we will have discussions. 

Week One: What do the students know about finical literacy, give it a definition, and learn about the important in understanding it. 

Week Two: Checking Account Versus Saving Account, banking options, and high yield saving accounts

Week Three: Investment options and writing a check 

Week Four: Understanding your paycheck 

Week Five: How bad credit can hurt you

Week Six: How good Credit can help you 

Week Seven: Building credit 

Week Eight: How to read a credit report 

Week Nine: The job search 

Week Ten:  How to budget effectively 

Week Eleven: Common Expenses to consider

Week Twelve-Week Sixteen: Budgeting Project 

Week Seventeen: Presentation of budgeting project!

We will cover a lot of topics in this class, which is why it is a semester long class, but they are all super important topics to understanding their future finances! I like to teach a student centered class meaning that the students run the room. They will have class discussion, answer questions and be required to participate to make the class run smoothly. As mentioned previously, my class will have interactive study games, discussion, projects, powerpoint slides to follow along with, and lots of hands on practice.
Learning Goals
Students will gain an understanding of finical literacy to prepare them for the real world.
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External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Sources
The source material will vary as we will use a copy of one of my paychecks to examine taxes, the difference between gross and net income, and other finding of a paycheck. We will also use YouTube videos for visual learners.
Joined September, 2023
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Maryland Teaching Certificate in Secondary Education
Bachelor's Degree in History from Salisbury University
I am certified in secondary education meaning that I am certified to teach 7-12 grade students. I also have taught Financial literacy for 4 years as a unit in both US history and World history. I took several economic classes in order to become social studies certified in the state of Maryland! 

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$20

weekly or $330 for 17 classes
1x per week, 17 weeks
60 min

Live video meetings
Ages: 13-18
3-18 learners per class

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