NGPF Fellows: Personal Finance Student of the Year Award, Edition 9
To acknowledge the efforts that teachers put into their classes, NGPF Fellows have the option to award a 'Personal Finance Student of the Year Award' to one student with outstanding contributions in their personal finance class. The Fellow selects a student based on the following criteria:
The student has taken the Fellow's personal finance class in the 2018-2019 school year
The student has demonstrated outstanding performance in the class based on their participation, academic...
NGPF Fellows: Personal Student of the Year Award, Edition 8
To acknowledge the efforts that teachers put into their classes, NGPF Fellows have the option to award a 'Personal Finance Student of the Year Award' to one student with outstanding contributions in their personal finance class. The Fellow selects a student based on the following criteria:
The student has taken the Fellow's personal finance class in the 2018-2019 school year
The student has demonstrated outstanding performance in the class based on their participation, academic...
NGPF Fellows: Personal Finance Student of the Year Award, Edition 7
To acknowledge the efforts that teachers put into their classes, NGPF Fellows have the option to award a 'Personal Finance Student of the Year Award' to one student with outstanding contributions in their personal finance class. The Fellow selects a student based on the following criteria:
The student has taken the Fellow's personal finance class in the 2018-2019 school year
The student has demonstrated outstanding performance in the class based on their participation, academic...
NGPF Fellows: Personal Finance Student of the Year Award, Edition 6
To acknowledge the efforts that teachers put into their classes, NGPF Fellows have the option to award a 'Personal Finance Student of the Year Award' to one student with outstanding contributions in their personal finance class. The Fellow selects a student based on the following criteria:
The student has taken the Fellow's personal finance class in the 2018-2019 school year
The student has demonstrated outstanding performance in the class based on their participation, academic...
NGPF Fellows: Personal Finance Student of the Year Award, Edition 5
To acknowledge the efforts that teachers put into their classes, NGPF Fellows have the option to award a 'Personal Finance Student of the Year Award' to one student with outstanding contributions in their personal finance class. The Fellow selects a student based on the following criteria:
The student has taken the Fellow's personal finance class in the 2018-2019 school year
The student has demonstrated outstanding performance in the class based on their participation, academic...
Tech Tool Review: Google Sites
NGPF Fellow Jenna Derkoski (Newton South High School, MA) provides this awesome overview of how to use Google Sites in your classroom.
Name of the Tool: Google Sites
Cost: To access the integrations with other Google Apps that make Google Sites useful as an intranet site creator, you'll need a G Suite subscription, which comes in two forms: $5 per user per month and $10 per user per month, we have google as part of our district, so it is free for our students to access.
Use Case: Allows...
NGPF Fellows: Personal Finance Student of the Year Award, Edition 4
To acknowledge the efforts that teachers put into their classes, NGPF Fellows have the option to award a 'Personal Finance Student of the Year Award' to one student with outstanding contributions in their personal finance class. The Fellow selects a student based on the following criteria:
The student has taken the Fellow's personal finance class in the 2018-2019 school year
The student has demonstrated outstanding performance in the class based on their participation, academic...
NGPF Fellows: Personal Student of the Year Award, Edition 3
To acknowledge the efforts that teachers put into their classes, NGPF Fellows have the option to award a 'Personal Finance Student of the Year Award' to one student with outstanding contributions in their personal finance class. The Fellow selects a student based on the following criteria:
The student has taken the Fellow's personal finance class in the 2018-2019 school year
The student has demonstrated outstanding performance in the class based on their participation, academic...
End of Year Culminating Project: Use a Personal Finance Challenge Case Study
The following blog post comes courtesy of Derek D’Angelo, president of the Michigan Council on Economic Education and 2018 NGPF Fellow
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Each spring, teams from all over the country gather in more than 20 states to compete in a Personal Finance Challenge competition. Competition styles vary from state to state, but in Michigan we mirror the format of the national championship held in Nebraska. Each student team is given a hypothetical family scenario and then creates a meaningful...
How To Develop A Parent Workshop, by Brenda Martin-Lee
The following blog post comes courtesy of NGPF Fellow, Brenda Martin-Lee of Seneca High School in Tabernacle, NJ.
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How-to of the event: It was very informal. I actually interjected myself into an existing event at the local library. It was a Game Night event where parents and students were attending. The number in attendance was around ten. I presented Ten Financial Principles to get the audience thinking about how they are currently managing finances and to hopefully take some of the...
NGPF Fellows: Personal Finance Student of the Year Award, Edition 2
To acknowledge the efforts that teachers put into their classes, NGPF Fellows have the option to award a 'Personal Finance Student of the Year Award' to one student with outstanding contributions in their personal finance class. The Fellow selects a student based on the following criteria:
The student has taken the Fellow's personal finance class in the 2018-2019 school year
The student has demonstrated outstanding performance in the class based on their participation, academic...
Classroom Management Tips - How I make My Class Engaging, Exciting, & Extra
The following blog post comes courtesy of NGPF Fellow, Joy Tavano, of North Kingstown Senior High School in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
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This year marks my 20th year teaching business and technology. Yes - I am forever learning about my content - things have changed quite a bit in the financial literacy world and technology is constantly changing - but my other focus is ALWAYS on improving my classroom management. Without that, the subject and skills I am teaching just will not make it...
NGPF Fellows: Personal Finance Student of the Year Award
To acknowledge the efforts that teachers put into their classes, NGPF Fellows have the option to award a 'Personal Finance Student of the Year Award' to one student with outstanding contributions in their personal finance class. The Fellow selects a student based on the following criteria:
The student has taken the Fellow's personal finance class in the 2018-2019 school year
The student has demonstrated outstanding performance in the class based on their participation, academic...
Teach Students to "Share to Save"
This guest blog post comes to you courtesy of NGPF Fellow Aric Weiker of Interlake High School (WA). I personally love this lesson idea because, I think, too often we focus on teaching students to "give up" their favorite spending habits entirely. How many times have you heard, "If you only saved that latte money"? Aric's got the good start of a lesson idea to teach students how they can still have their favorite coffee drink and still reduce their spending. For those who teach math or...
Tech Tool Review: Quizlet Live
NGPF Fellow Joy Tavano (North Kingstown Senior High School, RI) provides this awesome overview of how to use Quizlet Live. And don't forget, NGPF has a bank of prebuilt Quizlet sets you can use on our Quiz Games Library.
Name of the Tool: Quizlet Live
Cost: Free when creating random teams; $3 per month to customize teams
Use Case: Quizlet Live is great to use when you want students to work together to learn vocabulary words.
Implementation Guidance:
Quizlet is a great tool for a...
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