Alternative Educator

Moving past understanding money to actually earning money (or taking steps to earn money) is the next step in understanding finances. In this lesson, students will explore what it takes to write a resume. They will be exposed to specific concepts and information that is needed on a resume, consider their own work history, and apply all this to make their own resume. The students apply their reflections from the resume to complete a cover letter. The final slide has suggestions for follow up

Who's in your life? How do these people affect you? How are they affecting your financial decisions - which jobs to take? Whether or not to go to college? What to spend the money on? This survey has students explore who is in their lives and whether or not this is positive. This can be used in conjunction with other lessons to have students reflect on their relationships in connection with future goals.