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CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
Our program is an introduction to budgeting, finance, savings and investment for high school girls. The workshops and financial projects are meant to lift the veil on these subjects, of which 2 out of 3 American women claim to know little to nothing about. Our volunteer instructors come directly from the financial services field. We want our graduates to be more enlightened about the field of finance whether for just their personal money management or, as we’ll encourage, into the profession. We hope to shape their attitudes about handling money and their job prospects in the financial services field.
LEARNING OUTCOMES For the Silver curriculum, the desired learning outcomes for students are:
• To play the role of a financial adviser for Janella Sims, a 17-year-old college-bound female, where student teams analyze her college costs and her short and long-term financial goals. • To define basic investment terms.
• To follow the price movements of Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX) and Clorox (CLX) stock and the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB) over the weeks that we’re together in class.
• To understand credit and be able to explain its role and relationship to their personal financial life.
• To understand interest (simple and compound) and its benefits and how it can be detrimental.
• To analyze the costs of college and types of financial aid available.
• To recognize the gender gaps in wages, college debt, home ownership and retirement savings.
• To become familiar with the various types of careers in finance.
SESSION 1: Introduction and Pre-Assessment Session 1 is focused on the following topics and activities:
• Learn how the RTSWS program works and why it exists.
• Take the RTSWS pre-assessment to assess students’ baseline level of financial knowledge.
• Understand the concept of interest as it pertains to saving, investment and debt. Learn these related key terms: Simple Interest, Compound Interest and Stock.
• Understand what a stock portfolio and watch list are and become familiar with the stocks we will follow on our watch list in the weeks ahead.
• Become familiar with various online resources that will enrich students’ RTSWS experience.
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