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Grade 9-12
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On-Demand Webinar

Culturally Responsive Personal Finance

Time: 60 mins,
Presenter: Joel Coleman
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Objective

Educators will be able to identify:

  • Ways in which they can apply cultural knowledge and prior experiences of diverse students to make learning more appropriate and effective
  • Be able to examine example lesson plans in personal finance topics ranging from using values based personal finance scenarios to using storytelling to teach budgeting and saving

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Description

In this webinar we will show example lessons on how to incorporate culturally responsive pedagogy in the personal finance classroom. This webinar is great for beginning teachers as they build their curriculum, but also a great fit for experienced educator to evaluate their current curriculum.

Resources

Subjects:
Economics

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