Intro to Financial Aid

EQ - How can financial aid impact my future personal finances?

1. List - 10 Things You Need to Know About Paying for College
2. Inquire - What questions do you have about financial aid?
3. Note - Distribution of Article
1. Frame It (Title, Section heading)
2. Anticipate the purpose
3. Actively Read
1. Highlight unknown words
2. Write questions/thoughts in the margin
3. Briefly summarize each section after reading
4. Know - CERA
5. Career Cruising Financial Aid Section
1. Access your portfolio
2. Click Find A School
3. Click Financial Aid (Link @ bottom of page)
6. Find and apply for a scholarship
7. TOD - Muddy Points

HOMEWORK - Find a link to an online scholarship and post it as a comment to this post.

Career Cruising

EQ - What matters to me when choosing a career pathway?

1. AP – Activator - Factors of Career Selection Races
2. Review Decision Making Matrix
3. Factors of Job Selection Quiz
4. Submit Quiz to the Personal Finance tray
5. Activator – Quote Analysis

“Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked.

'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat.

'I don't know,' Alice answered.

'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.”

EQ - How will managing personal finances impact your major life decisions?

1. TPS – What makes decision making so difficult?
2. Laptops - www.careercruising.com
3. Matchmaker Surveys
4. TOD - What are you hoping to learn during your career exploration?

Decision Matrix

EQ - How can I use Decision Matrix make a career decision?

1. Activator -  Planning a class trip
2. Introduction to the Decision Matrix (Teacher demo)
3. Small Group Practice
4. Splashdown – The characteristics of career selection
5. AP - Individual Practice - Create a decision matrix using the factors of careers selection
6. AP - TPS
1. List the 3 most important factors of career selection to you
2. Describe 2 factors that are not important to you
3. What makes your top choice the most important to you?
7. TOD – How can using the decision making matrix help you make a career selection?

Factors of Career Selection

EQ - What factors should be considered when choosing a career?

1. Activator -  The Starting Line (Soul Pancake)
2. Review Monetary Goal
• How many of you have included monetary goals in your “Starting Line” writing?
• Discussion Question - What makes these goals important to you?
3. Collaborative Pairs
• Brainstorm 4 ways to generate money
• Which way is the most common
• What is the difference between a job and a career?
4. Splashdown – Make a list of important factors when considering a career path? 
5. Class discussion – Factors of consideration when choosing a career
• *Handout – Factors to Consider in Career Selection
6. Rank ‘Em
7. Collaborative Pairs – Create a pneumonic device
8. Summarizer - Muddy Points Grab Bag 
9. Intro to Decision Making Matrix *Handout to homework*

 **Homework - Create an outline for a decision matrix using the factors to consider in career selection AND your personal rankings for each. **

Welcome to Personal Finance

EQ - What can I expect to gain from taking Personal Finance?

1. Activator:  Personal Finance BINGO
2. AP - Class Discussion related to terminology
3. TPS - Post-It Note Collage - Write 3 ways money affects you and the world 
4. TPS - Financial analysis of a day: How has money affected you today?
5. Class Discussion – Impact of education on income *Handout at end of discussion to reinforce concept
6. AP – Frayer Foldable: List and describe 3 impacts discussed in class that you believe to be the most important. In the final box, explain what the correlation between education and income is and what it means for you.
7. Introductions: Syllabus, Room Procedures, Grad. Project
8. Back of Index Card - 3 goals you have for this class
9. TOD: 3-2-1
• 3 topics you want to learn in this class
• 2 items you learned today
• 1 thing you already know from the BINGO card

Standards: 

15.6.12.A: Evaluate the impact of internal and external influences on financial decisions.

Career Research

EQ - After researching your career, how do you know whether or not it is a valid option for you?

1. Activator – TPS Splashdown: Factors of Career Selection
2. Introduction to Career Research Project
1. Graduation Project Breakdown
2. *Handout* - Project Advanced Organzier
3. Q & A Session
4. Teacher Demo

1. Login to www.careercruising.com
2. Click the "Assessments" Tab at the top of the page
3. Complete Matchmaker (3 sets of questions)
4. Complete Skills Assessment
4. Select a career from the personalized list and begin your research
5. Presentation Preparation

Factors of Career Selection

EQ - What factors should be considered when choosing a career?

1.    Activator -  The Starting Line (Soul Pancake) – *Will be used as a baseline for future data analysis of writing proficiency*

2.      AP - Review Monetary Goals 

1.      How many of you have included monetary goals in your “Starting Line” writing?

2.      Discussion Question - What makes these goals important to you?

3.      Collaborative Pairs

1.      Brainstorm 4 ways to generate money

2.      Which way is the most common? 

3.      What is the difference between a job and a career?

4.      Splashdown – Make a list of important factors when considering a career path

5.     Class discussion – Factors of consideration when choosing a career

             1.      *Handout – Factors to Consider in Career Selection

6.       Rank ‘Em

7.       TPS - Impact of education on income *handout (Read and Discuss)

8.      Collaborative Pairs – Create a pneumonic device

9.      AP - Summarizer - Muddy Points Grab Bag

If time permits - Intro to Decision Making Matrix *Handout to homework*

Career Presentation Development

EQ - After researching your career, how do you know whether or not it is a valid option for you?

1. Activator - Super Bowl Ad
2. Peer Share - Briefly summarize your career research to you partner (90 seconds each)
• Advanced Organizer Review
• Jot down "talking points" on scratch paper
• Partner 1 - Go
• Partner 2 - Feedback
• Partner 2 - Go
• Partner 1 - Feedback
3. Planning the presentation
• Rubric Review
• Q & A
• Storyboard/Outline
4. Introduction to PowerPoint alternatives ("Class Links" Page)
5. Project work time
6. TOD - Where did I stop working today?  Where will I begin tomorrow?

Career Cruising

1. Introduction to Career Research Project
1. Graduation Project Breakdown
2. *Handout* - Project Advanced Organzier
2. Q & A Session
3. Teacher Demo
1. Login to www.careercruising.com
2. Click the "Assessments" Tab at the top of the page
3. Complete Matchmaker (3 sets of questions)
4. Complete Skills Assessment
4. Select a career from the personalized list and begin your research
5. Presentation Preparation

**Life Map (Long-term assignment)**

Life Map Assignment

EQ - How will managing personal finances impact your life decisions?

1. Factors of Job Selection Quiz
2. Activator – Quote Analysis
• “Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked.
• 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat.
• 'I don't know,' Alice answered.
• 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.” 
3. TPS – What makes decision making so difficult?
4. Life Map Intro
• Handout
• Rubric
5. Work time to complete life map 
6. TOD - Takeaway

The Decision Making Matrix

EQ - How can I decide which career option is right for me

1. Activator - Small Group Planning
• Index card groups
• If you could plan an afternoon trip for this class, what would in include?
• Class Discussion
2. Introduction to the Decision Matrix (Teacher demo)
3. Small Group Practice
4. Individual Practice (if necessary)
5. Splashdown – The characteristics of career selection
6. Create a decision matrix using the factors of careers selection
7. TOD
• List the 3 most important factors of career selection to you. Explain.
• Describe 2 factors that are not important to you. Explain. 
• What makes your top choice the most important to you?

 **Homework** Prepare for a quiz on factors of career selection AND the decision matrix

Welcome to Personal Finance

EQ - What can I expect to gain from taking Personal Finance?

1. Activator:  Personal Finance BINGO
2. Class Discussion related to terminology
3. TPS - Post-It Note Collage - Write 3 ways money affects you and the world 
4. Discussion - Financial analysis of a day: How has money affected you today?
5. Class Discussion – Impact of education on income *Handout at end of discussion to reinforce concept
6. Introductions: Syllabus, Room Procedures, Grad. Project
7. Back of Index Card - 3 goals you have for this class
8. TOD: 3-2-1
• 3 topics you want to learn in this class
• 2 items you learned today
• 1 thing you already know from the BINGO card

FInal Presentation Preparations

EQ - After researching your career, how do you know whether or not it is a valid option for you?

1. Activator - Quote Analysis
   • "Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." ~ Benjamin Franklin
2. Rubric Prep
3. Peer Share
• Partner 1 Present
• Partner 2 Feedback
• Partner 2 Presents
• Partner 1 Feedback
4.  Class Reflection
1. What went well?
2. What could be improved?
5. Revision Work Time
6. Re-Present
• Partner 2 - Present
• Partner 1 - Feedback
• Partner 1 - Present
• Partner 2 - Feedback
7. TOD: 3-2-1
• 3 - Reasons why you will succeed when presenting
• 2 - Changes you made that made your visual aid better
• 1 - Reason how this process has helped you