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Personal Finance (high school)
In this course participants will learn strategies for teaching Personal Finance to students. Topics covered in this course are income, money management, spending and credit, saving and investing and the principles of backward design. Participants will design a lesson and outline the scope and sequence for their own personal finance course for students.
Overview
This 7-week Personal Finance Course was developed for Missouri teachers of the required high school personal finance course. There are a plethora of teaching resources available and crafting the right plan for your classroom can be a challenge. This course will provide opportunities to explore online resources, develop and critique personal finance lessons using the backward design model, and network with personal finance teachers across the state.
Goals and Products
This online course will enable participants to
- Understand and implement the four units from the Missouri Personal Finance curriculum; Income, Money Management, Spending and Credit, and Saving and Investing
- Locate and use the most current and effective resources pertaining to the personal finance curriculum
- Design a semester plan for teaching Personal Finance
- Review, critique, and tailor existing personal finance lessons for use in their own classroom
Format and Requirements
| Session 1 | An Overview of Backward Design |
| Session 2 | Income |
| Session 3 | Money Management |
| Session 4 | Spending & Credit |
| Session 5 | Saving & Investing |
| Session 6 | Develop an Implementation Plan |
| Discussion postings | Participants are expected to respond to the online discussion prompt in each of the course sessions with an original posting. Participants are also expected to respond to the postings of other course participants in each course session. Participants will be evaluated on each response. |
| Course Activities | Participants are expected to complete the required course readings and activities as posted in each of the session assignment pages. Participants are expected to post reflections about the assigned readings and the completed activities in the online course discussion. |
| Final Product | Each participant will complete a semester plan overview OR develop a unit plan over one of the sessions from the course. |
| Final course Survey | Participants are expected to complete the final course survey within one week of the end of the last course session. |
Prerequisites
This is an introductory course for teachers, curriculum specialists, professional development specialists or other school personnel. Participants are expected to have regular access to computers. In addition, participants should be proficient with using e-mail, browsing the Internet and navigating to computer files.
