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Curriculum Overview Page| 927 Silver Curriculum: SESSION FOUR
SESSION 4: Post-College Financial Planning for Janella OBJECTIVE Students will be able to evaluate the cost of college and return on investment for earning a degree, while also navigating through the challenges women often face in paying down student loan debt.
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Take Weekly Attendance Take weekly attendance via Survey Monkey as students enter the classroom. Welcome the students and make sure any new volunteers introduce themselves. (2 minutes)
KEY TERMS FOR SESSION 4 • Return on Investment • Subsidized Loan • Unsubsidized Loan • Stock Market Volatility
Review Learning Objectives And Key Terms Briefly go over the learning objectives and key terms in the student workbook. Have the students read these out loud. For the key terms that are difficult to understand, explain these in more detail to students and provide examples if possible. (5 minutes)
Pull up Yahoo! Finance If accessible, use classroom technology to pull up Yahoo! Finance and display on a screen. If not, print this out ahead of time showing AMZN, NFLX, CLX, and IBB or have students pull up their Yahoo! Finance portfolios on their phones. Review the portfolio performance (AMZN, CLX, NFLX, and IBB) over the past week. (5 minutes)
Before you begin, please be sure you have the following: Have the classroom’s wifi network name and password on the board before class begins Survey Monkey attendance link can be found at: surveymonkey.com/
How To Calculate Your College Education Return On Investment As a large group, read and discuss the Forbes’ article “How To Calculate Your College Education Return On Investment”
“Deeper in Debt: Women & Student Loans”
Ask the large group to indicate which of their colleges appeared to require student loans in order for Janella to afford to attend. Direct the students to the charts from the AAUW “Deeper in Debt: Women & Student Loans” study. Have them review these with their small groups, and then discuss as a large group. What takeaways do they have? (5-7 minutes)
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