Curriculum

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 Green curriculum, the desired learning outcomes for students are:

• To play the role of a financial planner for Janella Sims, a 28-year-old female, where student teams create a budget for her keeping in mind her short-term and long-term financial goals. • To define basic investment terms.

• To follow the price movements of Amazon (AMZN), Clorox (CLX), Netflix (NFLX), and the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB) over the weeks we’re together in class.

• To understand and be able to explain where their tax dollars go.

• To understand and be able to explain living expenses.

• To become familiar with various types of careers in finance.

SESSION 1: Introduction and Pre-Assessment

• Learn how the RTSWS program works and why it exists.

• Take the RTSWS pre-assessment to assess students’ baseline level of financial knowledge.

• Learn about and discuss Math Anxiety

• Explore how people spend money and understand the distinction between saving and investing money. Learn these related key terms: Saving, Investing, 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.