UAA PACE, 500-Level Upper Division Course

Graded

COURSE OVERVIEW

This course will provide teachers with the key components of financial literacy, including personal risk/reward assessment, budgeting, debt reduction, and investment strategies, as well as tips to get started on a path to financial wellness. Specifically designed for the needs of teachers, participants will receive multiple tools and planning documents to help build a long-term financial success game plan. The course will begin by introducing the concept of financial literacy and why it is so important to teachers' and educators’ well-being and productivity. The course will then explore the difference between financial intelligence and financial literacy and why improving your financial intelligence is critical to understanding your personal goals, needs, and wants. The course will then help teachers evaluate their monthly cash flow through budgeting and provide strategies and tips to help reduce or eliminate debt. Participants will then learn about wealth building through investment strategies, including the various tools they may uniquely have access to as teachers. The course will also discuss topics around wealth preservation and protection. At the conclusion of the course, participants will come away with a long-term financial game plan and the knowledge and tools to implement it if they choose.

Grade Level: K-12

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Define financial literacy and its key elements.
• Evaluate figures of teachers vs. other professions and how teachers may be able to take advantage of their chosen career to gain a financial advantage.
• Analyze the idea of wealth from a macroeconomic perspective.
• Build a plan for budgeting and debt reduction, as well as other areas to grow assets and minimize risk.
• Analyze the different investment strategies and vehicles most relevant to teachers.
• Analyze various wealth protection strategies, including insurance and protection against inflation and fraud.
• Plan for implementation by completing an action plan that details a comprehensive financial plan based on your current lifestyle.
• Critique, analyze, and summarize specific articles, resources, and studies about financial wellness as it relates to the teaching profession.
• Build and describe the use of a resource that supports a strategy you plan to use in your upcoming lesson.
• Plan and build a Classroom Implementation Plan for immediate classroom use by planning for the concepts you learned in this course

Methods of Instruction:  tests, personal goal-setting, reflections on  articles/videos, class collaboration, a cumulative project, and a final practicum.  This course is delivered entirely online.

Rubric breakdown

Course Syllabus  This is a preview syllabus only.  The official syllabus will be provided to you with your login information

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• This self-paced Model Teaching course can be completed at a pace that fits your schedule.
• You can register and start work anytime. 
• All work is due one year from the date of registration, with a 30 day minimum to complete.
• Extensions and re-enrollments are not permitted.
• You may cancel within one week of registration.  A $125.00 cancellation fee will be applied.

TUITION

$385 Subscriber

$435 Non-Subscriber

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PROVIDER DETAILS

Contact Model Teaching directly for questions specific to coursework by phone at 888-828-7950, by email at courses@modelteaching.com, or by chat via the support tab in your course dashboard.  We are available by phone or chat Monday through Friday between the hours of 6:00 am and 2:00 pm Pacific Standard Time. We also respond to after-hours tickets you can submit via your support tab.  Contact ASDN for registration or transcript questions.