The 21st Century Student's Guide to Financial Literacy - Getting Personal (Instructor's Guide)

To live and thrive in the modern world and build stable financial futures, students must be financially literate. The 21st Century Student s Guide to Financial Literacy Getting Personal (Instructor's Guide) has 18 fun and highly relevant lessons in all aspects of personal finance and money management. Employment and income, taxes and withholding, retirement, credit cards, insurance, homeownership, investing, and more. Easy to teach lesson plans provide students with the skills and strategies they need to make informed financial decisions and build a life of financial stability. Lessons are centered around three thematic units: Earning an Income, Building Wealth, and Protecting and Preserving Wealth. Each unit contains six full lesson plans dedicated to the unit theme. Students master over 300 key personal finance terms and concepts. Optional Debate-Persuade-Inform activities challenge students with a political or economic issue highly relevant to their future such as identity theft, Social Security reform, the gender pay gap, Wall Street reform, and the free college controversy. This course comes fully loaded with classroom instructional slides, vocabulary e-flashcards, links to supplemental resources, and Teach the Teacher podcasts. This essential subject is conveyed with clarity and humor, providing your students with knowledge, skills and strategies that will truly make a difference for their entire lives. Companion student textbook available. Ideal for grades 7-12.