Community Resources and Stock Market Game in your classroom FREE Fall 2010

Submitted by John Morris on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 8:12am

Cost:

$0.00

Meeting Date(s):

Thu, 09/23/2010 4:00pm – 7:30pm

Location:

Scarlet Oaks Career Campus, Use entry door #3
3254 E. Kemper Road
(Sharonville) Cincinnati, OH 45221

Topics:

Community, Financial Education, Investing, Speakers, Stock Markets

Course Description

A FREE workshop which will show teachers how to utilize the tools, and pages on the SMG simulation. The Stock Market Game is a 30 + year program which takes teaching out of the text book and applies it to the real world. Students pair into teams with their classmates and decide how they will invest $100,000 an introduction to the basics of financial markets, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, investment strategies, and instructional resources - including how to play the Stock Market Game from.

Fall Stock Market Game begins October 10, 2012. Be sure to register your teams today! Visit www.smgohio.org for more details!
Last year, teams that had the winning portfolio had the chance to travel to New York City and meet business professional at leading investment firms!
Click here to check out the photos!

Additional Information:

Professionals are available to come to your classroom to add value to your instruction. Learn about careers in Finance, stories of personal gain and loss; make learning fun and engaging.

Use of Stock Market Game has proven to increase students performance on standardized tests in Economics, Personal Finance and MATH!

A grant allows participants to purchase graduate credit for only $229/hour. For information about the credit requirements, please see below or contact Kim Moon, 513-556-8545 or kimberly.moon@uc.edu.

Learn how to play the Stock Market Game and get tips from teachers that have won valuable prizes that come with participation. Interested in ringing the opening bell at the NYSE?

This program is recommended for all teachers, grades 4-12 that want to get their students engaged in real learning. High school teachers could offer college credit to thier students.

Graduate Credit Requirements:

To earn (1) quarter hours of graduate credit, you must:

Attend workshop
Administer the SMG pre & post test to your group of students, and turn in results to your state coordinator.
Administer 1 lesson for each phase of the SMG program (listed below).
1. Before You Invest
2. Selecting Your Investment
3. Tracking Your Investments
4. At The End of The Trading Session
Administer one “Math Behind the Market” lesson.
And, write an assessment of your students’ growth through the process.

To earn (2) quarter hours of graduate credit, you must:

Do the work listed above for for 1 credit hour, then create a lesson for each of the SMG program phases (4) total:
1. Before You Invest
2. Selecting Your Investment
3. Tracking Your Investments
4. At the End of The Trading Sessions