Alternative Educator
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Willington, Connecticut, United States
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I have worked at an alternative high school for 12 years. The focus of my school is to build skills so that students can be productive members of society. Each lesson is more skill focused than content focused. The content comes secondary to the skills.
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Financial Literacy Lesson - Risk Tolerance & Choosing a Good Stock
This lesson has students exploring how to get information about stocks and investment. They do research, track a stock (ticker), and present portfolio growth at the end of a specified time period (I did a month in my classroom). Students are introduced to the concept of risk and risk tolerance. This is then applied to financial decisions. Students are introduced to investing vocabulary, the concept of how real-world events will affect a stock's price, and how to read and digest information a
10th - 12th
Economics , Graphing, Numbers
CCSS
HSS-IC.A.2
, HSS-IC.B.6
Also included in: Financial Literacy Set of 11 Activities
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Experience
I have worked at an alternative high school for 12 years. The focus of my school is to build skills so that students can be productive members of society. Each lesson is more skill focused than content focused. The content comes secondary to the skills.
Teaching style
Personable, "hands on" to provide opportunities for students to apply the information presented in the classroom.
My own education history
BA Psychology -Wayne State University
MA Industrial / Organizational Psychology - University of Connecticut
MS Secondary Education - Eastern Connecticut University.
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