Financial Education Teacher Academy Summer 2012

Submitted by Haskellda on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 11:37am

Cost:

$75.00

Meeting Date(s):

Tue, 06/19/2012 9:00am – Wed, 06/20/2012 3:30pm

Location:

Location TBA - centrally located in Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, OH

Topics:

Banking, Credit, Finance, Financial Education, Insurance, Money, Philanthropy, Risk

Course Description

This is the TEACHER ACADEMY I - The introductory level of the Financial Education Teacher Academy programs.

This program provides teachers with excellent curriculum materials and fun activities for personal finance instruction on a variety of topics. Activities provided in this course can be integrated into a variety of subject areas – math, social studies, business, consumer skills, etc. Learn how to teach about financial goals and values, working and earning, credit, practical money skills, etc. All participants will leave with a "bucket" filled with valuable resources to teach personal finance lessons across multiple grade levels and to students of all abilities.

The Summer 2012, Teacher Academy 1 meets for two days, June 19 and 20.

All participants (who do not already have one) will receive a free copy of the "Virtual Economics" CD Rom - over 1,500 lessons for teaching economics and personal finance.

NOTE: The one-day "Teacher Academy 2" programs are more comprehensive information about "how to teach" the specific topics. Teacher Academy 2 programs will be held June 26-28, 2012.

Additional Information:

This is the introductory level TEACHER ACADEMY I.

What to Expect: Demonstration of a variety of activities on economic decision-making, creedit, spejding, budgeting, careers, banking, etc. Classroom resources will be introduced.

Lunch will be provided each day.

Academic Standards Content: The activities will focus on the personal finance benchmark/indicators from the Ohio Academic Content Standards, grades 9-12. A variety of resources to address additional personal finance topics will be demonstrated.

Participants will receive a variety of instructional resources.

Credit Option

The June 19-20, 2012, two-day program can be registered for one quarter hour of graduate credit with no required follow-up assignment OR for 2 quarter hours of graduate credit with completion of a follow-up assignment.