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In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week 2015, NGPF is celebrating the hard work and commitment to personal finance education exhibited by our nation’s teachers by featuring just a few members of our NGPF educator community.
School: Tigard High School, Tigard, Oregon
Be honest! I talk about how much wealthier I would be right now if someone had given me this advice! I also give examples of how much has changed and how much easier it will be for them to make good decisions now that they can have automatic deposit of their paycheck and automatic payment of bills. They can easily make payments to their IRA with their company transferring their money for them. I also talk about how I love nice clothes and cute shoes like they do, but I have to make goals and budget to meet these goals, just like they will have to. It’s a really fun class to teach, and you feel like everyone gets something from it.
I play the H&R Block Challenge in my class. Students are given a computer simulation where they get a paycheck, have to pay bills, have to decide how much to put in their 401(k), decide on how much of their credit card bill to pay, and also are given real life scenarios like their car gets in a fender bender and they need to pay their insurance deductible. They get deductions and fines if they are late paying a bill or go over on their credit card limit. They also are given financial quizzes and get scored on their correct answers. At the end of the two month simulation the top students in the country won scholarships for their personal finance knowledge. I just had a student finish #8 in the country out of 33,000 students playing, and he won a $20,000 scholarship for college! I am so proud of him, and he is so incredibly excited that he did so well and won this money to help him pay for college.
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