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3 Week Enrichment Course Outline

Kevin Smith — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 21:04:31 +0000

Introduction This course outline is designed for condensed learning programs for financial literacy, usually taking place over the summer. Enrichment programs can vary in length, but our benchmark for pacing is a 3-week program that meets for approximately 2 hours a day, 5 days a week. With student packets that can be easily shared with Read More...

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How to Teach a Financial Literacy Course

Cassandra Wood — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:34:20 +0000

Our 18-Week Financial Literacy / Personal Finance Course Outline This recommended financial literacy course outline is designed for those who teach a 18-week Financial Literacy Course (aka Personal Finance Class). It makes heavy use of PersonalFinanceLab’s financial literacy games, Budget Game and Stock Games, as well as our Learning Library of self-grading assessments. Notice for Read More...

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Financial Literacy Challenge

Giovanna Borges — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:55:36 +0000

Offering your students four exciting and fun features: 5 great reasons to invite your students to the challenge! *The 10 teachers that have the most students completing at least 6 months of the budget game will each receive a $100 Staples e-gift Card. That’s another $5000 in prizes for teachers. Dates: Registration is now open. Read More...

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PersonalFinanceLab Recommended 9-Week Course Outline

Kevin Smith — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:25:28 +0000

This course outline is designed for a 9-week Personal Finance Class. It makes heavy use of PersonalFinanceLab’s Budget and Stock Games, as well as our Learning Library with self-grading assessments to measure student progress. Notice for teachers joining our Free Financial Literacy Events – Our free events do not have full admin access for teachers Read More...

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Open-Ended Challenge Questions

Kevin Smith — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 14:36:48 +0000

PersonalFinaceLab’s curriculum library is packed full of automatically-graded quizzes and assessments at the end of every lesson. However, to give students an additional push, you may also want to assign students open-ended questions for short written assignments, or launching points for class discussion. Most of our Personal Finance lessons end with 4-6 “Challenge Questions” – Read More...

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Teacher Introduction Webinars

admin — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 22:05:56 +0000

See our introduction webinar to walk through every aspect of creating your class, adding assignments, viewing reports, and much more.

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Lesson Plans

Kevin Smith — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 14:19:33 +0000

See our collection of personal finance, economics, investing, savings, business, math, and social studies lesson plans to kick start your class. Includes over 50 lesson plans ranging across every grade level, with suggested class activities and ways to integrate the stock game and other learning resources, both for in-class activities and homework.

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Setting Up Your Class Or Challenge

admin — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 21:29:50 +0000

To create your contest, log in as an administrator, and find your Administrator menu at the top left of the page and click on "Create Challenge". Click on this post for a video demonstration!

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Widget Set-Up Tutorial

Kevin Smith — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 14:45:48 +0000

If you would like to set-up your Market Insight Widgets on any display screens in your classroom, this tutorial will walk you through the first set-up! Prefer “Text and Image” guides? Keep reading! What You Need To get started, there’s a few things you’ll need: A Smart TV with a web browser If you have Read More...

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Creating and Managing Assignments

admin — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 16:14:13 +0000

Assignments are a great way to manage your class's activities around the simulation and this learn center, giving you the ability to track your student's progress in trading, reading articles, and using our calculators. This will be a quick overview of what Assignments are, and how you can best make use of them in your classroom.

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